Thank you. Just used your video to wire up my motor. Works perfectly. I had the original harness so I just had to solder white and black into a single line.
This video helped me tremendously. I thought i could but would have never have figured it out on my own. My old Kenmore motor was exactly like the one in the video. I had saved the connector and a length of wire for tails when I stripped the dryer and used that instead of the crimps. Thanks!
THis is helpful, thanks for posting. The motor I found is just like it. You have the black going into terminal 6 and jumping over to 5 and I found 6 doesn't connect to anything so you can just go straight to 5.
Thing is with these motors they may look alike but mine was wired differently (terminals) than the person's video I watched on a motor that looked exactly like mine. I did use a multimeter on ohms besides look at the terminal markings and went from there. I'm just a tinkerer and dont have the knowledge my dad has.
I don't know if you can help me .I have a lg dryer . when I push start it runs for 5 second's and stops .I'm thinking it's the. Switch on the motor . because when I took it out of the dryer to test it .it starts after 5 second's .any ideas thanks .I forgot when the dryer stops I shut the power off and turn it on again . and hit the start button the dryer run's again for 5 second's ?
I got another dryer motor. Looks basically identical; to yours 95% just about. Anyhow I had hooked up 4 and 5 without hooking up 6 to 5 together like you have. And the motor ran fine. So I decided to include terminal 6 as well and jumped it to terminal 5. I must say, the motor runs twice as powerful. Not sure why. And Also before I did that I hooked 6 and 4 only as I thought it might run the motor in reverse, it didn't do anything. Well, so the question is it is possible to make these motors run in reverse? Being AC it won't work if you switch the wire around. Current already alternates back and forth regardless.
@@bob2d21For simplicity lets assume 5 and 6 to be one wire ( since they are hooked up together) and 4 another. Now we have two wires only. So if I have 4 hooked up to house black hot and 5 to white house netural, if this makes the motor go forward, then if I hook up 4 to white house neutral wire and 5 to black wire from the house, the motor will reverse direction? If this is so why on earth mine is not doing that. I have switched the wires do go backwards because of the direction of the blade I am using and no change. I have also got the blad moving it in reverse direction before hooking up the power, it goes back in the same way as before. Another thing that has crossed my mind for a while is this. I don't see any capacitor for any dryer motor I have taken out so how these motor get going to begin with. They are brushless. Washing machines being induction motors they all have capacitor to get the motor going like any induction motor then the cluch disengages and the polarity on their capacitor determines their direction not the polarity of the connection to the motor itself. I know because I have 6 washing machine motors. I have 5 dryer motors. Dryer motor have the clutch but what does it disengage when the motor gets going? Is there a hidden tiny capacitor inside that no one see unless they use a microscope or something? Not a single dryer motor I have goes backwards. At least I don't recall. I just acquired one of those fancy LG direct drive motor from a front loader washing machine. It is a beautiful thing. God have mercy because I have no idea how I am going to get this thing going. It is all computer controlled and with hall sensor. I don't know if you have seen these beasts. They are rather interesting. I have saved everything intact and on my garage floor. The control panel, the wires, the computer and the motor and all the sensors all complete and whole. And the computer knows so it treats you with error codes. PE code for starters and god knows what else if you can get out of that one first. I know how to achieve and make it look that the door is closed and find a way so it knows that the water is on and up to par, Pressure sensor, that one, heaven knows plus few other anomalies. I don't know how to go about fooling the computer and put the computer to go to spin cycle. If I can achieve that mischief, that would me smarter than it. Check mate. :-)
@@alchemy1 when I wired mine I cut the 3 coil wires directly from the coils so I could run them through a controller. note that the motor I am using is not the exact model in the video so it may be internally wired differently. also I converted mine to dc 48v to use off site
@@alchemy1 -- He's in the US, so it's possible that motors might be a bit different than in your country because we're on a 120/240V (split phase) system... Many other countries are just on a 240V system...
I have no idea what the word the jumnpered means. I looked it up in the dictionary, it wasn't there. Maybe I have it spelled wrong. You keep saying 6 jumpered to 5 or some such thing. Jumpered aside, you got two wires on your power cord. Just simply say which terminals did you hook up your two power cord wires, not counting green ground. The rest is water under or over the bridge, whichever you prefer. I had an LG dryer and none of them wires had domestic colors. But interestingly enough they were numbered. So I just decided to hook the cord to terminals 4 and 5 and the rest is history. The two were the thinnest of the bunch. White (4) and red (5) respectively.
Thank you. Just used your video to wire up my motor. Works perfectly. I had the original harness so I just had to solder white and black into a single line.
thanks SO much for the tutorial! Worked perfectly! Now I can move on to the next stage with my lathe! :)
Worked perfectly for me. Thanks.
This video helped me tremendously. I thought i could but would have never have figured it out on my own. My old Kenmore motor was exactly like the one in the video. I had saved the connector and a length of wire for tails when I stripped the dryer and used that instead of the crimps. Thanks!
MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH IT WORKED OUT JUST LIKE YOUR VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
THis is helpful, thanks for posting. The motor I found is just like it. You have the black going into terminal 6 and jumping over to 5 and I found 6 doesn't connect to anything so you can just go straight to 5.
Thank you!
Thanks dude appreciate it very much
Thanks man work perfectly fine
Thing is with these motors they may look alike but mine was wired differently (terminals) than the person's video I watched on a motor that looked exactly like mine. I did use a multimeter on ohms besides look at the terminal markings and went from there. I'm just a tinkerer and dont have the knowledge my dad has.
You only need to connect 4 and 5 just to make it run
Thx i Followed your hands on schematics,,,,whatta u know it works. Thx again
That's cool! Also aside from my father I've never heard anyone else say "horsefeathers" we must be related!! LOL!
Brilliant!
Thx mine worked
Do you have this running on 120v and can it be run on 220v?
But the black terminal doesnt have a wire to it.
Mine worked connecting 4 and 5 only like Rob Powell below
I don't know if you can help me .I have a lg dryer . when I push start it runs for 5 second's and stops .I'm thinking it's the. Switch on the motor . because when I took it out of the dryer to test it .it starts after 5 second's .any ideas thanks .I forgot when the dryer stops I shut the power off and turn it on again . and hit the start button the dryer run's again for 5 second's ?
I got another dryer motor. Looks basically identical; to yours 95% just about. Anyhow I had hooked up 4 and 5 without hooking up 6 to 5 together like you have. And the motor ran fine. So I decided to include terminal 6 as well and jumped it to terminal 5. I must say, the motor runs twice as powerful. Not sure why. And Also before I did that I hooked 6 and 4 only as I thought it might run the motor in reverse, it didn't do anything. Well, so the question is it is possible to make these motors run in reverse? Being AC it won't work if you switch the wire around. Current already alternates back and forth regardless.
yes it is. just switch any 2 coil wires to reverse the motor
@@bob2d21For simplicity lets assume 5 and 6 to be one wire ( since they are hooked up together) and 4 another. Now we have two wires only. So if I have 4 hooked up to house black hot and 5 to white house netural, if this makes the motor go forward, then if I hook up 4 to white house neutral wire and 5 to black wire from the house, the motor will reverse direction?
If this is so why on earth mine is not doing that. I have switched the wires do go backwards because of the direction of the blade I am using and no change. I have also got the blad moving it in reverse direction before hooking up the power, it goes back in the same way as before.
Another thing that has crossed my mind for a while is this. I don't see any capacitor for any dryer motor I have taken out so how these motor get going to begin with. They are brushless. Washing machines being induction motors they all have capacitor to get the motor going like any induction motor then the cluch disengages and the polarity on their capacitor determines their direction not the polarity of the connection to the motor itself. I know because I have 6 washing machine motors. I have 5 dryer motors. Dryer motor have the clutch but what does it disengage when the motor gets going? Is there a hidden tiny capacitor inside that no one see unless they use a microscope or something? Not a single dryer motor I have goes backwards. At least I don't recall.
I just acquired one of those fancy LG direct drive motor from a front loader washing machine. It is a beautiful thing. God have mercy because I have no idea how I am going to get this thing going. It is all computer controlled and with hall sensor. I don't know if you have seen these beasts. They are rather interesting.
I have saved everything intact and on my garage floor. The control panel, the wires, the computer and the motor and all the sensors all complete and whole.
And the computer knows so it treats you with error codes. PE code for starters and god knows what else if you can get out of that one first. I know how to achieve and make it look that the door is closed and find a way so it knows that the water is on and up to par, Pressure sensor, that one, heaven knows plus few other anomalies. I don't know how to go about fooling the computer and put the computer to go to spin cycle. If I can achieve that mischief, that would me smarter than it. Check mate. :-)
@@alchemy1 when I wired mine I cut the 3 coil wires directly from the coils so I could run them through a controller. note that the motor I am using is not the exact model in the video so it may be internally wired differently. also I converted mine to dc 48v to use off site
@@bob2d21 This is what I got couple of days ago, LG direct drive high voltage DC.
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@@alchemy1 -- He's in the US, so it's possible that motors might be a bit different than in your country because we're on a 120/240V (split phase) system... Many other countries are just on a 240V system...
I have no idea what the word the jumnpered means. I looked it up in the dictionary, it wasn't there. Maybe I have it spelled wrong. You keep saying 6 jumpered to 5 or some such thing.
Jumpered aside, you got two wires on your power cord. Just simply say which terminals did you hook up your two power cord wires, not counting green ground. The rest is water under or over the bridge, whichever you prefer.
I had an LG dryer and none of them wires had domestic colors. But interestingly enough they were numbered. So I just decided to hook the cord to terminals 4 and 5 and the rest is history. The two were the thinnest of the bunch. White (4) and red (5) respectively.
Did you hear the disclaimer at the end of the video? Lol.
Are you running it with 120v ? I'm confused.
120v the higher voltage is for heat elements from what i understand
@@rockinhorsefeathers8100 Awesome working like a champ thanks
Mine smoked when I hooked it up like this
no load ?
@@lovetacoma8604 Is the fan enough of a load?
same
Would be safer and more efficient with more uses if you incorporate a capacitor