Hi there....
I was trying to assemble an old ceiling fan... but... I wasn't sure where the capacitor goes.. I am a technician, so I tried to figure out how it should go in theory... but obviously I would have prefered to find something confirming this on the internet before turning the switch on.... you know... better not to burn out things.... After some research in the internet I found NOTHING about where the capacitor goes in standard ceiling fans...
Well, after measuring the 3 cables, I found that there were as expected two coils with one wire in common.
______ __________ ) ( ( ) COIL 1 ) ( COIL 2 STATIC( ) MOVABLE ) ( -------- | |
So... how do you connect that? Well according to the theory... if you apply voltage to one coil, it will create an alternating magnetic field according to the alternating current. Now... if we want this thing to move, we must feed the second coild with another alternating current to generate another magenetic field with DIFFERENT PHASE... How to achieve this? well, here is where the capacitor comes... If we connect the capacitor in series with the second coil... there we will have the difference in phase... Of course that the capacitor must have the right capacitance according to the inductance that the coil has.
The diagram should be like this.
LIVE _______________________________ \ \ CAPACITOR | __|__ | _____ | | |______ __________| ) ( ( ) COIL 1 ) ( COIL 2 STATIC( ) MOVABLE ) ( -------- | | NEUTRAL _______________/
Why to post this? Well... Everything should be in Internet, right? ;) Regards you all! Alchaemist