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  1. dvanommen

    Help with motor wiring and limiting starting current

    Thanks, Compositepro. I'll thread a bolt into the frame somewhere - there's no ground stud anywhere that I can find, so I'll just have to make one.
  2. dvanommen

    Help with motor wiring and limiting starting current

    Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.
  3. dvanommen

    Help with motor wiring and limiting starting current

    Well that wiring config fixed both issues. White to COM and black to HI, leaving green and LO disconnected. No need to spin it up manually to get it to turn on, either, it just runs. Just for fun, I did connect green and LO together, and that made it trip the breaker again. Any reason for this...
  4. dvanommen

    Help with motor wiring and limiting starting current

    I have a Westinghouse AC motor, shown below, which I want to use to power a small bench lathe. I think the motor works fine, but I'm having two problems: correct wiring configuration and starting current. Problem 1: I don't have a wiring diagram for this motor. The terminals on the motor are...
  5. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    Thanks for the encouragement, berkshire and drawoh
  6. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    I understand that I've put myself in an awkward situation with future employers. It looks bad (or, at the very least, questionable) to see someone quit spontaneously after two months of working his first job in the industry. However, what it came down to for me is that I wasn't comfortable with...
  7. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    I have to ask, now, if anyone is aware of any entry level opportunities for mechanical engineers in the Wichita, KS area, please let me know. I have applications out already to 6 different companies, but any other options I can look into, I certainly will. My interests are largely in aviation...
  8. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    Thank you all for your feedback and guidance on this issue. I made the choice to leave the company on short notice. I wasn't able to move forward with the project at hand knowing how it was being processed, and even beyond that particular project, there were quite a lot of issues I had with...
  9. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    That is a separate conversation I'll have to have with the lead. As far as I understand it, these documents are already written, and I am simply signing "pass/fail" on the face of the document. I was already uneasy about being asked to be the witness to the test because I haven't been involved...
  10. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    Thank you all for your input so far. drawoh, you're right that I'm the closest thing to a licensed PE here. In fact, I'm the third current employee who serves as an engineer, and only the second employee who has formal engineering training from a university. Unfortunately, trial and error has...
  11. dvanommen

    Am I doing the right thing

    I'm a new engineer at a small company which really isn't set up for engineering work. It's mostly a job shop, manufacturing parts that have been engineered by larger companies. They have been awarded a couple of contracts over the past decade, but there isn't a significant amount of experience...

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