Newbie

[hookis]

Hello to everyone here this is my first time here and my first SS I bought it used it has sat for almost 2 years well I got it home and my bad but when I plug it in and turn it on (pluged on its own circut) table saw mode it comes up to almost full rpm and then trips the breaker in the shop panel I thought it was the motor had it checked all ok. Now what I did notice was that when you turn the blade hy hand it dose not spin easy and seems to bind a bit like if you just move it a tiny bit and let go it sort of goes back like it was spring loaded sorry for the long post but I tried to explain it and any help would be great or ideas

[LenInSebastopol]

Can't help with the second part of the problem, your motor, but the first part, tripping the breaker is probably caused by 20 amps drawn on a 15 amp circuit, which is most home circuit capacity. Many times it ran and would quit, and once in a while it would run fine, all due to amperage of wire to draw on the motor.
As for turning by hand and it springing back; I don't know. Mine will turn a wee' bit back due to minor tension and where I let go, but yours sound more dramatic. Sorry, can't help more than that. See if there are local SS owners nearby. This forum use to have a map thingy showing all those that posted to it and there respective locations. Not so much in Nor. Cal.
Good luck on yours,
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[JPG]

Manual 'spinning' of the blade will encounter much inertia and lack of free wheeling due to the drive belts and motor. As for the 'rollback', that is likely normal and is caused by the belts having taken a 'set'.

You did not say which model ss you have. If a 3/4hp motor and you are on a 15A circuit or running an extension cord tripping a breaker is common. The starting current is high until it gets up to full speed. Anything that extends the start up time will cause this. Other devices drawing current on the same circuit will exacerbate this. Startup current can be greater with a 1 1/8 hp motor, but they tend to ramp up to full speed quicker.