How to connect the engine from the washing machine (motor)
If you still have the engine from the washing machine, then you can figure out how to use it. For example, you can make a grinder out of it. If you fix on it a special nozzle in the form of a round grindstone, then you can sharpen knives, scissors, an ax and other tools.
You can also use an electric motor from a washing machine in construction. For example, when creating the foundation for a future home, you can make a “vibrator” out of it, which is useful when shrinking a concrete mortar. It can also be used for other purposes. The engine can rotate various nozzles and set in motion any mechanisms.
Using your imagination and skills in such matters, you can come up with a wide variety of ways to use an electric motor. And of course, when implementing any use case for this motor, you will need to connect it.
How to connect the electric motor of a modern washing machine?
If you needed to connect the electric motor of a modern washing machine to an alternating voltage network of two hundred twenty volts, then you should consider the features of this part. Their features are as follows:
- They do not need a starting winding.
- To start, you do not need a starting capacitor.
To start, we need to properly connect the wires on the engine. Two white wires, which are located on the left, we will not use. They are necessary for measuring the speed of the electric motor. The next in sequence is the red wire. He goes to the stator winding. Behind it is a brown wire. It is also aimed at one of the stator windings. Gray and green wires are connected to the engine brushes.
In order to present you the connection diagram more clearly, we have prepared the following diagram:
To one of the terminals of the winding we will connect one wire of 220 volts. We’ll connect one of the brushes to the next one. On the remaining brush of the washing machine motor, we connect the second 220 volt wire. So, as shown in the diagram below:
After that, you can turn on the engine in a network 220 and check its operability. If you did everything correctly, you will see how the moving part of the motor rotates and hear the noise of its operation. If everything went fine, then the engine is ready for use. By the way, with this connection, it moves in one direction. And what needs to be done to change the direction of rotation? See the diagram:
As you can see from the schematic display in the figure above, in order to change the direction of rotation, we needed to swap the connections of the electric motor brushes. After reconnecting the engine, check its operation again by connecting it to the 220 volt network.
By the way, in order to facilitate your work, we decided to add a video instruction. In which the entire process of connecting the engine from the washing machine to electricity is described.
The method of connecting the motor from a modern machine in this article is based on the material presented in this video. Therefore, we thank the author of this video and watch it very carefully:
How to connect the motor of an old machine?
Correctly connect the electric motor of the machine is not so simple. But if you know how to do this, then this will not cause problems.
First, we need to find two pairs of output. In order to understand where they are, we can use a multimeter (tester). We select one of the winding leads and connect the tester probe to it. With the remaining multimeter probe, we will check other conclusions to find a pair.
Thus we will find the first pair. Those two conclusions that remain form another pair. Now we need to understand where the starting and working windings are. To do this, measure the resistance. The starting resistance will be greater.
Scheme
And so, we have already found a working and starting winding.Now we can connect the engine using the schematic drawing that you see next. The diagram shows:
- ON - starting winding. It is needed in order to create the initial torque in any direction.
- OV - field winding. It is called a working winding. It is needed to create a magnetic field of rotation.
- SB - switch (button) for short-term inclusion of software on the mains in two hundred twenty volts.
If there is a need to change the side in which the rotation of the motor will be directed, you will need to change the software conclusions in some places. With this change, the direction of rotation will change to the opposite.
When you conduct a test connection and start the engine, do not forget to take care of your safety and the safety of others. Be sure to lock the motor. This will prevent its strong vibrations and unnecessary movements.
We hope that this entry helped you cope with the independent connection of the motor of the washing machine. Keep reading our website and have a nice day!
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Everything would be fine, but the motor from the ARDO has 8 conclusions, 4 of them are from the stator, and what should I do ???
2 of them thermal relay, 2 stator
Thank you very much !!! that you help electricians.
Thank you very much needed scheme!
Article Super! Everything is very clear exactly the same engine started from the 1st time
Thank you. 10 points. I would like to see the switching circuit using the speed sensor. Thanks again
if possible
email dvigotel from the senior machine Atlant .8 conclusions
Thank. 10 points, but how to reduce engine speed?
How to reduce the speed of an induction motor from a washing machine. Thanks, Eugene
You can dig up the speed control somewhere
Very useful information, most importantly everything is intelligible. thank
Everything is available. Thanks for the info. I especially wanted to note the word "resistance", smiled. )
The starting resistance will be greater.
Sorry, but somehow it doesn’t sound electrically, resistance, it is, but not anymore, but vice versa. Mislead people.
Thank you very informative 5+
Clearly, intelligibly. Thank you very much.
Simple and ingenious!
Connected email. the engine is washing the machine, now I want to resume the function as before, how to get into the right wires for the machine to work ???
I have a motor in rewind, 24 grooves, step 5-7, tell me which winding circuit, everything is burned!
And what is the connection scheme of stator windings with parallel connections?
Hello. I have two engines from different models, and they have 5 conclusions. What to do?
And how to connect if 9 wires?
Thanks bro!
And if the engine is connected in parallel and the speed control is included in the collector circuit, will there be a strong power drop?
The engine from the Ardo tl800x-1 washer has 9 leads, 4 pairs of different colors and one black. Does anyone know how to connect?
MIELE 606 \ 2 engine, only from the stator 8 pins. 2 thermal relays, 2 tachogenerators. How to connect?