g.mccormick
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I get to start my day be trying to figure out a no water situation in my my house.
Submersible pump 3 wire pump. I opened up the control box and see that that is a capacitor, but no relay and timer. I would assume that to mean then that the motor itself must have a centrifugal switch.
When I energize the disconnect, I get:
~5Amps on RED (START winding)
~5Amps on YELLOW (COMMON winding)
0Amps on BLACK (RUN winding)
I only have cheap meters at home that seem to not have the ability to test capacitors. Would a bad cap cause this? I can only guess that if the cap is bad, when the switch changes to run, it can't so slows down and then closes back to start?
Submersible pump 3 wire pump. I opened up the control box and see that that is a capacitor, but no relay and timer. I would assume that to mean then that the motor itself must have a centrifugal switch.
When I energize the disconnect, I get:
~5Amps on RED (START winding)
~5Amps on YELLOW (COMMON winding)
0Amps on BLACK (RUN winding)
I only have cheap meters at home that seem to not have the ability to test capacitors. Would a bad cap cause this? I can only guess that if the cap is bad, when the switch changes to run, it can't so slows down and then closes back to start?