Re: washing machine motor

From: James Sweet (jamessweet_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/20/05


Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:19:27 GMT


"spayce" <spayce.1j549o@news.diybanter.com> wrote in message
news:spayce.1j549o@news.diybanter.com...
>
> the washer stopped spinning so i removed the belt and tried it again and
> motor would not spin so i helped it along by turning the pully and it
> ran so i figured it was the capacitor bought a new one that had a
> different mfd reading.the original was 233-280 mfd 110vac and the new
> one is 233-292mfd 110/125 they told me it would work it did the same as
> the other motor still would not spin.so i ordered another one that took
> a week to get,this is a 3 year old machine.put new motor in without
> belt and still would not spin without help?could it just be another bad
> capacitor?there is 110 volts going to the capacitor.is there an easy way
> to check capacitor?and what is the MFD readings stand for? thanks mike
>
>

The capacitor value is not critical, your new one is perfectly acceptable.
The microfarad rating is the capacitance, though motor start caps are by no
means precision devices. Obviously the capacitor isn't the problem here,
it's probably the starting switch or some wiring to or around the motor. You
may be best off having an appliance tech look at it, you've already thrown
away money replacing two perfectly good capacitors, there's no sense in
continuing to throw money at it unless you do some troubleshooting and are
able to determine the problem.



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