DesertRider
Active Member
One final thought, please, after you fine the problem, come back and let us know what it was... we all are interested in the solution or we wouldn’t be here.
These valves.Thanks, KOK, for your thoughts. But I am not quite following you, since I am not as handy as you are. I have a common electrical tester. What are you suggesting I do, and how? I have thoroughly read the owners manual. Specifically what issues with what internal valve please? Thank you in advance!
That's why we suggest testing parts before just replacing them... if it has a belt, it may be loose/slipping...Update: I replaced both the run capacitor and the start capacitor and it did not help. Any ideas guys?
no switch, it has capacitors. no short or you'd be tripping breakers.That's why we suggest testing parts before just replacing them... if it has a belt, it may be loose/slipping...
If it has a centrifugal starting switch inside the motor, it may have dirty electrical contacts... or as Bud suggests, the electrical wiring in the motor may be old and shorting out...
Depends on where the short is between the windings if it blows a fuse and the valves don't work like that...no switch, it has capacitors. no short or you'd be tripping breakers.
take some amp readings and see what the motor is doing.
I think the valves are bad. At bog down point your asking the motor to keep up with a wide open valve leak while at the same time achieving higher pressure. The air pressure is pushing backwards against the compressor.
I agree when I first started in the factory one of my first jobs was a coil winder. With enameled motor wire it gets nicks if you are not careful and burn thru from heat and aging. There may be 1000 turns of wire and if there is a short turn to turn it might just pass a tiny fraction of the current and the turn to turn voltage drop is really little voltage. Sometimes even layer to layer drops are not great enough to cause a meltdown. When you get a short to frame or something then its going to melt or trip something like a breaker.Depends on where the short is between the windings if it blows a fuse and the valves don't work like that...
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