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Tanks for the info, I talked last week with the local electrical motor repair shop and they said that for a 1/4 hp motor, a 160 uF would be ok. I installed one an it worked fine. I will never know if I get the higher starting torque possible but it seems ok. There's certainly a way to find...

You'got a magic motor, 1 hp = 746 watt, 5 hp = 3730 watts, 3730 watt/ 110 vac = 34 amps. This would be with a 100% efficiency motor ... Dany

HI, I have to rewind the start winding of a 1/4 HP 4 poles 120 VAC motor. The original start windings were 56 turns of 22 gage wire for each pole. I wish to modifiy this motor to add a starting capacitor to improve starting torque. Does anyone knows what size of capacitor would be required and...