Recent content by trexmonkey

no extention cord, just one of the prongs is burnt a bit. The power cord on this thing is beefy. A replacement is $90. The motor does have a red switch. Ive pressed it a few times thinking it might help somehow, maybe it was half engaged or something, no luck.

Ive never worked with electric motors much, i wouldnt know where to begin. But i assume if it was rigged for 220v it would just instantly either fry the motor or the wires in my wall. Like i said tho with the drain plug open the motor seems to run with no problems

I think the guy i bought it from went through it a bit, to try and fix it before giving up. It looks like brand new oil in the pump, granted who knows what kind of oil they put in. For greater context, the guy didnt mention anything about the compressor popping breakers. His problem was it...

So it says 13ish amps on the sticker, dont have a meter to check actual draw. My breaker is a 20. I opened the lids and checked the capacitors. The starting capacitor my meter wouldnt read. But the running cap showed 50 and its a 50uf 240v cap so that checked out. Only catch is someone had...

Ok so its a belt drive, with a 1.5hp marathon motor on it. The power plug, 1 of the prongs has the very tip burnt off. Could just be people plugging it in while its already turned on. Anyways i just got the compressor used so i have no idea if it would have normally ran on my garage outlet...