How to Wire a Condenser Fan Motor
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- How to wire a condenser fan motor. In this video I go over how to wire a 3 wire HVAC condenser fan motor and a 4 wire condenser fan motor. I also explain where to find the wires, where the wires go, and what to do if you are replacing a 3 wire motor with a 4 wire motor.
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Out of the 1000s of compressor videos I watched...the blurb at the end about the extra wires wound up being the issue! Thanks!!
Just had to replace my 3 wire fan motor. Thanks to your video, I had no problems wiring up the 4 wire motor with a separate cap.
Your explanation made the most sense compared to other videos. I put this off for a long time. Just installed the new fan! Super easy! Thanks for the help.
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Thanks for the video. Air went out at 1am and on the hottest day over 100 degrees and 93 at night. Everyone else said had to have duel capacitors to use 4 wire configuration and I saw your video and thats what I thought but wanted to be sure about the 2 brown wires. Had a used newer motor with the 4 wires and it works great and now have air back up at 3:45 am. Such a blessing. Your video saved me.
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You saved my hide friend! My new motor came in today. Naturally it wasn't a one for one swap. The mounts were all wrong and not enough wires. Your wiring explanation gave me confidence that it was worth overcoming the mounting. I didn't want to explain to my employer that I had just wasted $270 bucks on the wrong part. Thank you!
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Thank you for the video. I replaced my fan motor following your recommendations. My fan was going bad and I noticed the fan was previously replaced with a 4 wire instead of a 3 wire motor. The installer jury rig the wires using a secondary capacitor. Needless to say I replaced and put all the wires back to spec for a carrier 3 ton single speed motor and it is now working quieter and smoother for a 13 year old unit. Thanks again for taking the time and teaching us on how to do maintenance on our units.
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A very helpful video. Learnt how to deal with the 3 and 4 wires motor, as well as why there are two short wires sticking out there.
Thank you very much for this video. My fan diagram matched the one you showed in this video. So I hooked up the brown to the capacitor and the purple wire opposite the black wires. The fan is working like it should. Thanks again.
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So the black goes with the other black on the little circuit box and the same for the white. Then the brown and brown and white go on the other capacitor but it doesn't matter which side those wires go on
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I watched several videos and was confused until I got to yours. Thank you very much! Mine had a white wire instead of purple. Back up an running. I thought there were standards on what color a wire could be ??!
You are the man ! Thanks so much I was like what do I do with this extra brown wire. Now I know cut the brown and white and cap it . Just what I needed to know
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I have a blue black and orange wire. Blue and orange go to capacitor black to connector?
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Nice job! You saved me some trouble and $$. Thanks. My replacement condenser motor had different colored wires. Thanks
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9iu.n my old fan motor has three wires new motor has five
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Thank you for an excellent video. I’m preparing to replace my condenser fan motor and this video plus the one where you walk through the entire process of replacing the motor (the one with the wasp nest, LOL) have been invaluable.
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I always forget which brown wire to cut off for a 3 wire application with a 4 wire motor. Thank you!
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Excellent explanation for going from a 3 wire fan motor to a 4 wire. Very helpful. Your vids are always extremely informative and done in such a way as to be easily understandable. One question you may be able to answer, I've been advised that a fan motor may have a plastic or rubber "plug" in the bottom when mounted to facilitate water drainage. Is this statement true or false? Thanks in advance for your answer.
Thank you. But still have questions.
How do u protect the reverse direction wires from UV and how or where do u secure them so they don’t get caught by blades?
Thanks bro… this helped a lot
Very good and detailed video, thank you for this online help. On my replacement motor there is a short green color wire, I believe it is suppose to be ground. If it is, where should I attach that too?
Glad the video helped! Yes, the green wire is a ground. Usually that wire can simply go under one of the bolts/nuts that secure the motor to the shroud/cover.
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My old fan motor has four wires. Brown and white, brown, yellow and black my new fan motor has brown, red and black I know the brown goes to the fan on the compacitor and the black goes to the contactor but does the red go to the common on the capacitor or does it go to the opposite side of the contactor? The new motor doesn't have a wire diagram.on it and i dont want to wire the new one wrong. Thanks for your time and god bless
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Thanks, but why aren't wire colors more universal? My old fan has Black, Orange and Blue and my replacement fan has Black, Brown and White. Just that way to confuse us?
welcome to the hvac industry
Read the diagram
Nice video! Btw, can't you just replace the 3 wire motor with a 4 wire motor WITH a separate fan capacitor? Then just put in a jumper between the C (common) on the dual run capacitor and one of the connections on the fan capacitor?
Yes, that would work too. The fun thing about HVAC is that there is usually always more than one way to do things :D The two ways I go over in the video are the most common ways though. Thank you for mentioning that though! For the people for whom it would be easier to do it that way.
I have a 3 wire condenser fan motor that is blowing air down instead of up. It has a duel capacitor the brown goes to the capacitor and the other two go to opposite sides of the contact. Can I reverse the direction of the fan motor by swapping the two wires at the contact?The motor is a 1/8 hp 1075 RPM and it states ROT CCLWE. I'm assuming this motor is only counter clockwise?Can I reverse the direction?
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Hi! Thank you for your videos, they're super helpful. I've been replacing my AC fan motor and I'm down to one last step - for some reason my replacement motor came with yellow, brown and black wires but the original had purple, brown and black. Is it possible that the yellow wire on the new motor will work in place of the purple? Any advice or help you could offer? I really appreciate it!
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Thanks you very helpful ....My case was the 4 wires with a 3 wires condenser. Bu my question now is, the original motor was a 1/5 hp and they give me a 1/4 hp motor replacement. Does the capacitor will work the same? What can I do?
My old condenser fan motor is 1100rpm, 1/4HP and 1.3amps
The only replacement I'm finding is 1075rpm, 1/4HP and 1.6 amps.
Is this likely to work without any problems? Thanks.
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Good job on your video. But like to know if you can do a video a little in depth how to read Schematic please.
Thank you! I am planning on making one :) I want to make it good though, with good editing. So it will take me some time to make...
Can you also put the common wire to the capacitor? I’ve seen some capacitors having two wires on C?