Can you Reverse a Single phase motor

[mcgaw81]

Can you reverse a single phase motor, and if yes How?????

Thanks in advance

 

[Apache]

I asked this very question a while ago and the answer was probably not!

You after a backwards running grinder too?

http://www.talk.electricianforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2536

 

[spinlondon]

Yes you can.

You would have to put the capacitor onto the other leg.

 

[patspark]

yes you can . i connected up some a/c on a job and the fan was running

backwards. reversed pol and it ran forward. first time i came across this

 

[Andy™]

you just need to swap connections to either start winding or run winding. but not both

 

[revjames]

No you have to specify either clockwise or anticlockwise when you buy the motor...

 

[musicspark]

Hi john ,

Good to see you around here,,, where have you been hiding?

 

[spinlondon]

No you have to specify either clockwise or anticlockwise when you buy the motor...

Sounds like a wind up.

 

[kme]

No, it`s definitely electrical. Wind-up ones don`t have electrical connections.

 

[Andy™]

No, it`s definitely electrical. Wind-up ones don`t have electrical connections.

wind ups do have electrical connections.... where else do you think leccy comes from?!

 

[Bacon]

This may help you mcgaw81

http://www.chainganger.co.uk/Page1/PDF/Reverser.pdf