Hi, I heard once from a very clever electrician that the windings of a 3 phase induction motor can be wired up backwards and burn the motor out (i think slowly). What i mean by this is if you have 6 cores coming out of your motor all black, none labelled, then simply testing for each winding and...
Hi, for a squirrel cage induction motor (d.o.l) it is generally considered that anything over 4kw should be connected in delta. Why is this? because of the higher torque? I know someone that connected a 15kw in star accidentally (it was originally in delta) and the motor burnt out, but I...
