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Hello everyone,

Just had my motor rewound to operate on 240V as required here in Australia. If anyone else still has an imported 110V system they would like to change over please let me know. I will direct you to the electrical shop I used in Sydney.

The unit runs very smooth and I am up and running fine.

Cheers,

David

lokerd wrote:Hello everyone,

Just had my motor rewound to operate on 240V as required here in Australia. If anyone else still has an imported 110V system they would like to change over please let me know. I will direct you to the electrical shop I used in Sydney.

The unit runs very smooth and I am up and running fine.

Cheers,

David

What motor manufacturer? GE, A.O.Smith? Surely NOT Emerson!

JPG40504 wrote:What motor manufacturer? GE, A.O.Smith? Surely NOT Emerson!

Why do you say this? Is there a reason that the Emerson motor could not be rewound (other than cost)?

JPG40504 wrote:What motor manufacturer? GE, A.O.Smith? Surely NOT Emerson!

It was an Emerson when it left here bound for Australia.

Which explains why he used the word "rewound."

OK! My mind set is that 'rewinding' is a risky endeavor at best. More than likely, the motor stator and windings were replaced with lord knows what.

I did not say it was impossible!

The reason for my previous comment was that the Emerson has hidden splices.

The other motors have accessible splices which can be altered.

It is more likely that was done rather than an actual 'rewinding'.

Who knows what brand motor was shipped to Australia(Unless Rob was the 'shipper':D).

Who knows who manufactured the stator and windings now in the original case?

JPG40504 wrote:OK! My mind set is that 'rewinding' is a risky endeavor at best. More than likely, the motor stator and windings were replaced with lord knows what.

I did not say it was impossible!

The reason for my previous comment was that the Emerson has hidden splices.

The other motors have accessible splices which can be altered.

It is more likely that was done rather than an actual 'rewinding'.

Who knows what brand motor was shipped to Australia(Unless Rob was the 'shipper':D).

Who knows who manufactured the stator and windings now in the original case?

The splices become immaterial, do they not, if rewinding is the objective??

lokerd wrote:Hello everyone,

Just had my motor rewound to operate on 240V as required here in Australia. If anyone else still has an imported 110V system they would like to change over please let me know. I will direct you to the electrical shop I used in Sydney.

The unit runs very smooth and I am up and running fine.

Cheers,

David

Dave

Regardless of brand, number of splices etc. If it's up and running and you're happy with it, then that's all that counts. Congrats on getting it working for you.

I never tried to rewind a motor myself but I had a number of them done back in the 1970's and 80's. Never had a failure from one,
I don't have the info on who I used anymore but a quick Google search on, electric motor rewinding, shows that the service is alive and well yet today.
Here is one:
http://eurtonelectric.com/
Often replacement is cheaper than rewinding one on common stuff but sometimes you get one that you just can't go out and buy and rewinding beats replacing a specialty motor especially if it is like some where the motor is built as part of a machine (some old stuff).


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dusty wrote:The splices become immaterial, do they not, if rewinding is the objective??

The 'objective' is to make it run on 240V.

Rewinding is a way to do so.

Only the Emerson would 'require' rewinding.

Simpler methods are possible if all the splices are 'accessible'.

Of course he be happy with the result, but it may be unnecessary to rewind if a different ss motor is at hand.

After checking out the Eurotonelectric site, I believe a new one from ss would be cheaper(assuming one can get to Australia-by way of San Diego?:D).