Just bought this Jos Poitras & sons TS - 121 12-14" table saw. I am feeling like I'm a little over my head with wiring this machine. I dont have any electrical experience with machines other than rewiring my motors from 120V to 220V and making 220 extension cords. I have attached pictures of all the connections. The gentleman I bought it off had it hard wired at his shop with 4 wires, but the machine tag and motor tag both have it as 1PH, 220V, 15amp. There are 4 wires coming from the motor but i saw on other forums that some other older 1PH motors have this. My shop can only take 1 phase. I have already bought the 220V wire and male outlet. I also have a General Switch for 220V, 1PH, 3HP, 11-14Amp
how its set up now:
- 4 load wires from the motor
- 1 of the 4 wires from the motor appears to have been cut and taped to one of the other 4 (labelled #3)
- those 3 wires are labelled 3,4,8
- #3 leads to switch
- #4 leads to capacitor and switch
- #8 leads to capacitor
- 4 line wires (red,white,black and ground)
- Red and white lead to switch
- Black wire is just capped
My questions are:
Is this mistagged and is actually a 3 PH motor?
is it 1PH and the capacitor is working as a converter to 3PH?
Or is it 1PH and theyre just using 2 of the 3 llive line wires?
If 1PH, how would I wire the 4 load wires to the switch I have?
Lastly, if the motor is 15amps, can I use the switch I have rated for 11-14amps? will that cause problems just mean it will peak at 14amps?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Need to get this beauty fired up so I can get back to work.
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