Re: Motor Wiring Help Please!



Standard north american washing machines have used AC induction motors since the beginning, they're often two speed, non reversible and use a mechanical transmission to drive the oscillating agitator and spin cycle. The last few years European-style front loaders with series wound universal or polyphase VFD driven induction motors are becoming much more popular but the old fashioned induction motor powered top loader is still in probably 95% of homes.

I live and learn I never have lived in America just assumed they were similar the the UK ones




It's surprising just how different they are, just recently acquired a Creda front load washer which as far as I know is a very typical UK unit but it was completely new to me and took some exploring to understand how it worked well enough to fix it. I also picked up and fixed a Maytag Neptune which is a high end American made front loader which performs very well compared to the top loaders I've always had. I like the design of the Creda a bit better but it has a much smaller capacity, probably about half. The Neptune is one of those which uses a 3 phase induction motor with an electronic variable frequency drive, pretty cool stuff.
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