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divemaster1963

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Posted: 06:55pm 27 Mar 2009

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Hey I just pickup this new motor today. Its a

A.O. Smith
Condenser fan motor
3/4 Hp
460/200-230 Volt
1140 Rpm
Polyphase
Cat no: H567

Any sugestions on how to convert?

sorry about the pictures cheap camera.

GWatPE

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Posted: 07:32pm 27 Mar 2009

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I would rate similar to the photos. The shaft is pretty puny. If you desperately feel you need to do a motor conversion, dinges may add some.

Gordon.

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vasi

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Posted: 03:01am 28 Mar 2009

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Long time exposure ... because is at bulb light... try to not shake the camera when you take pictures at room light.

Here are three reasons when you have blury photos because of you: first, long time exposure because the light is poor and you can't keep still the camera for long time, second, when you press the button and shake the camera at the same moment, in daylight conditions, and third, you are too close to the subject and you are not in macro mode - my camera have a 20 cm minimum distance between the subject and photo lens in normal mode.

If your camera don't have a macro mode, try to respect the minimum distance and increase the photo resolution - say equal or better than 1024 x 768 ... Then, you can crop the desired part of the photo.

You can make better photos at day light.

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vawtman

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Posted: 03:10am 28 Mar 2009

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I tend to agree with Gordon on this.Those condenser motors often times have cheap sleeve type bearings and looks like that is what this motor has.
They don't want to make them too tough otherwise we would have more maytag repairmen outthere

There are better fish to fry.Keep divin

divemaster1963

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Posted: 08:17am 28 Mar 2009

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yea the camera i have is a cheap 9.95 walmart one. I' try to get better photos.

We have been in very low lighting because of sever storms past 2 days.

here is a few more.
the shaft is 7/8 ths just inside housing. was thinking of beefing up shaft on out side with sleave up to the tapper at the bearing.

divemaster1963

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Posted: 08:19am 28 Mar 2009

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The bearings seal to be pretty good. they are the same sealed bearings i have on commercial mower pullys.

divemaster1963

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Posted: 08:55am 28 Mar 2009

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I was thinking of posibly mounting this further back on the mill, use a sleave over shaft supported with a block pillar bearing thats low friction high speed. any sugestions on nuber and size of magnets i should use. hey I got this motor for only 20.oo us. brand new in box.

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