I am hooking up my HVAC outside fan motor. How do I hook it up?

Question

They gave me a new capacator and it looks different. It has 2 connectors with 3 prongs, the old one had an extra connector with one prong in the back of it. The motor I got has 1 brown/white, 1 brown, 1 black, 1 white. The old motor had a purple wire coming off the right side of capacator, brown coming off the back connector of capacator, and black going to other circuit block......I did diagram this before taking it out, just the new wires have me thrown off a little. Just want to make sure I don't fry the motor.

Thanks!!!

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Ok, the old capacator had 1 connector in the back and 2 up front......the brown wire was connected to the one in the back(only 1 prong), but the NEW capacator only has the 2 connectors.....where do I put the brown wire?.........and the new white wire not on the old motor???

Answer 1

There should be a wiring diagram on the motor, but if I understand right, the black and white wires should be line voltage and the brown/ white and brown wires should wire to the capacitor. The cap is marked with usually a red dot or stamped symbol on one side, but all my experience, it never seemed to matter which wire (brown/ white or brown) was hooked to the marked side. You may end up with an extra wire coming from the compressor contactor which fed the old capacitor. Remove this wire, it is no longer needed.
You should not burn anything up but I have seen one run backwards and I just switched the cap leads.

Answer 2

The new cap. should be marked. Look at the terminals where the wires connect.

Answer 3

follow the diagram on the new motor. your new motor might be a multi voltage motor if so find out what voltage your existing motor was & wire new one accordingly.