Originally Posted by
Craig Andresen
So today I opened the motor up as far as I could without taking piping off and removing this beast from the wall (which isn’t much). Wiring in the switch looks good, the capacitor looks fine, and while I was able to remove the metal fan cover, I couldn’t get the plastic fan to slide off the shaft to look at the centrifugal switch which I think is under that side.
Long story short, I saw no visible issues so got to work making some last adapters for piping up some of my tools. When I switched the DC on, the breaker now blew immediately! I reset it and tried again and it kicked in and ran fine. Turned it off a bit later and did some other things and came back and tried to use it again and the breaker blew immediately again! Something clearly is not right as this has gotten worse. There’s far too many people that have used the Rikon impeller for it to be just related to that.
I found good directions for checking the Cap so I’ll try that tomorrow. I’m wondering if that’s the culprit now. If not, I’ll keep trying. Lemme know if anyone has any ideas based on the new issues.