Roadkill401
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It has taken me almost a year from when I got my CV-Max shipped to me to getting it installed. Most of that was getting power into my shop, and getting it finished enough to get it working.
In hind sight, I should have tested the unit well before getting the ceiling installed and everything looking nice.
From my panel to my magnetic starter is all working fine. But I gather I have a dead short between the wires going into the motor. I am sure that I followed the instructions:
a. L1 connects to P1
b. L2 connects to (T4 & T8)
c. P3 & T1 & T5 – wire together
If you put an ohm meter between L1 & L2 you get zero resistance. As this is a motor, this might just be that my meter isn't good enough to detect the small resistance.
But if I try and start the motor, I get a dead short spark at the line into the magnetic starter and it blows the 100amp breaker to the panel. This seems to me to point to there being a problem with either the line up to the motor, or the motor itself.
I have checked the L1 & L2 to see if either is shorting to ground and they are not.
Any ideas??
Addition:
I opened up the section of roof where the motor is housed and opened up the connection panel box. I have verified that L1 is connected to P1, and L2 connects to T4 & T8.
If I disconnect L1 from P1 and check the amperage between L1 & L2 it's 1. So there definitely is not a short in the wires that connects the Magnetic starter to the motor. So the problem must be inside the motor itself.
In hind sight, I should have tested the unit well before getting the ceiling installed and everything looking nice.
From my panel to my magnetic starter is all working fine. But I gather I have a dead short between the wires going into the motor. I am sure that I followed the instructions:
a. L1 connects to P1
b. L2 connects to (T4 & T8)
c. P3 & T1 & T5 – wire together
If you put an ohm meter between L1 & L2 you get zero resistance. As this is a motor, this might just be that my meter isn't good enough to detect the small resistance.
But if I try and start the motor, I get a dead short spark at the line into the magnetic starter and it blows the 100amp breaker to the panel. This seems to me to point to there being a problem with either the line up to the motor, or the motor itself.
I have checked the L1 & L2 to see if either is shorting to ground and they are not.
Any ideas??
Addition:
I opened up the section of roof where the motor is housed and opened up the connection panel box. I have verified that L1 is connected to P1, and L2 connects to T4 & T8.
If I disconnect L1 from P1 and check the amperage between L1 & L2 it's 1. So there definitely is not a short in the wires that connects the Magnetic starter to the motor. So the problem must be inside the motor itself.
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