Recent content by randee

Just wanted to thank you again, tried it again and worked perfectly... Only for a few minutes but worked just fine. Thanks again guys, saved the day again!

I am using a space which is in the basement below an office. I promised I wouldn't run any loud equipment during office hours, but I had to try it since I couldn't go a day without knowing if it would work. I started right up. Not sure if a wire was lose or what I did wrong before. I am using...

I tried it again, this time without a load and the start button did cause the coil to latch and it stayed on. When I hit stop it stopped. I will connect it to the load and try it again. Wonder if it's causing it immediately overload when I have the load attached? I will try it again and let...

I'll take a better picture and try to make it clearer, I know this stuff is hard to diagnose over the forum. I am sure you guys could get me going in about 10seconds if it was in front of you. The spark when I pushed the "start" button was right where I manually push the coil to start the...

Here is a quick video I took, does that help out at all?

Ok, I will take some more photos and maybe a video rundown of where it's at now. Once I disconnected it, I could still manually start the vacuum. Thanks again for the help... Most videos I find don't have the "B10" switch on the side so it's hard to find an example that's similar to my...

Well I did that wrong. Just got a spark when pushing start. Should those leads have gone to the same Line? I put them to 2 different Lines. Not sure if I screwed something up permanently or not. I disconnected them and was able push the coil manually and got the vacuum to work still. Any...

Awesome! I will wire those two (??) wires to the supply line power. The box only had one cord (supply line) coming into it as far as I can tell. So I didn't think there was any other incoming connections. I reconnected the starter and wired the supply to it as well as the load/motor. I went...

Thanks TRWham, Whats your thoughts on my wiring diagram? Where should my mystery leads go? terminal 96 and a lead coming from the NC "Stop" switch. Everything else was connected as I got it. My thought was they disconnected LINE to the unit and left everything connected. So could have those...

Thanks MattT and TRWham! Snapped some pics, now that I am at the shop... Looks like it wants AC, correct? could those wires of been plugged into the L1/L2/L3? I don't see any other input that could have gone into that box, but the line feed. Thanks again for any input! Randy

Thanks MattT, so those wires should go to a power supply? Like a 24V or something power supply? There was some specs on the side, I will take some clear photos tomorrow of the unit and report back. Thanks again!

Just wanted to ask you electrical brainiacs another question. But first, I wanted to say how much I appreciate they help you guys gave me getting that spindle/VFD up and running. It has helped me out a lot. I haven't even tried the vacuum motor yet, I just ran into a project where it would...

BTW, connected it to my controller (Mesa 7i77 & LinuxCNC) just to see if would fire up, and enabled spindle and changed speed, it was spinning!!! Upped speed, went fast, all good! Upped speed again, got a trip error on VFD. AC instantaneous over currnet trip - Insufficient ramp times / phase to...

Thanks wyliediesels, I will double check line voltage. That surface mount stuff is hard for me. I have a hot air rework, but never was very good at it. Thanks laser3kw, I am guessing it was mounted on it or close to it. Because it was jam packed with wood dust. Like I am not sure why it didn't...

Here's one for you... I powered it on, and kept a close eye on that area where I thought I saw the spark... Then I did see a spark there, had my eye right on it and saw exactly where it was. I powered it down, went and grabbed a pencil with an eraser to clean that area. When I touched that...