Re: Help with AC motor modification!

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Original poster: David Dean <deano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi

The motor will work fine.
see http://deanostoybox.com/sparkgap_const_details.htm for mine.
You will need four flats of course.

later
deano

On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:57, you wrote:
> Original poster: "Scott Bogard" <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello all,
>      I am brand new to the list (my name is Scott Bogard, but you may
> call me Teslas intern if you wish).  I have a motor I wish to modify
> to synchronous operation for a spark gap, and I am curious if it is
> suitable (before I rip it apart and start milling!)  It is a 1/2
> horse, 1725 RPM, A.O. Smith AC motor.  115 V, 7.2 A, 60 Hz, and has
> no start or run capacitors of any kind (I think I read somwhere that
> you must have a motor with capacitor start, this motor does not) it
> seems to have a contact in the bottom from the case to the armature,
> that I believe is for starting, the armature has a centrifugal
> counterweight on it, so the contact breaks once the motor gets
> rolling.  I searched the archives, but there is a whole lot of stuff
> there, and I very well might have missed my answer.  I have a number
> of other differant but similar motors if this one will not work.
> Thanks all,
> Scott (Teslas intern).
>
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