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Electric jerry rigging help please

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osage outlaw:
A cheap hairdryer works well for running a forge. 

paulsemp:
That's a single phase 120 volt motor. The yellow wire with a green stripe is your cased ground. White wire is your neutral. The red and yellow wire are both hot. It is probably a two-speed motor and each one is a different speed would be my best guess. Do not feed both those wires hot at the same time. Try one of them and then disconnect and then try another to see if it's two different speeds

paulc:
Pretty sure y'all are right. Yellow w green is definitely the ground, and presumably the white is neutral...I'll look some more today online-see if I can find the motor somewhere.

Now Osage...why would i go buy a $20 hairdryer and be ready to go when i can spend hours Jerry rigging this to be cumbersome and slightly dangerous??  I just looked up dual start capacitors online and found one for "only" $40....my idea makes more sense every minute....I'll report out after I've wasted hours down this rabbit hole...

Thanks, Paul

dylanholderman:

--- Quote from: paulc on July 18, 2020, 07:27:29 am ---
Now Osage...why would i go buy a $20 hairdryer and be ready to go when i can spend hours Jerry rigging this to be cumbersome and slightly dangerous??  I just looked up dual start capacitors online and found one for "only" $40....my idea makes more sense every minute....I'll report out after I've wasted hours down this rabbit hole...

Thanks, Paul

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get out of my head  (lol)

osage outlaw:
Go with the cheaper $10 model hair dryer  ;D

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