View single post by Bill Voigt

Posted: Sun Aug 1st, 2010 10:51 pm

Joined:	Tue Mar 18th, 2008
Location:	San Francisco, Palm Springs, California USA
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BTW - the motor tag is for a 4 blade westy - Here are #s I have seen "in the wild"

4 blade - 164848 (with various suffix letters)

6 blade - 164864 (with various suffix letters)

Here are #s I have seen "in the wild"

164848 -- 4 blade Westy osc 12 in - 100-110 V
164849 111-120 V
164848B
164848C
164848G - 4 blade Westy osc 12 in
164848I
164848K

6 blade -

164864 -- 6 blade Westy osc 12 in - 100-110 V
164864A
164864B
164864D
164864G - 6 blade Westy osc 12 in
164864I

So several possibilities:

1) Motor tag was lost and a similar tag substituted in the distant past

and the motor is really correct for this blade & cage - in this case

the motor would be 2 wire & would have a centrifugal switch (Scott, does it? )

2) Motor is a later 6 pole motor ( 164864G, I, etc. OR 315745A) and the

tag was substituted.

3) Motor and base are indeed a 164848G, in which case burnout is imminent -

(see attached)

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