Thanks DIYer.
That motor case looks very strong. Is the electrical voltage 220 volts where you live? In the US we have 120 volts for most of our electrical needs and very little 220 volts for home use. It would be nice if our country went to an all 220 volts systems. When I was an industrial mechanic, I worked mainly on 220 volts and 440 three phase voltage. I prefer 220 volts.
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Not to be the voltage police but as an Industrial Electrical/Millwright contractor for over 30 years and an engineer and even holding an Electrical contractors license since 1980 I will tell you there has been no nominal 220 volt systems in the US for over 50 years. - The typical nominal voltages are 120 240 277 480 and 575 (even stated as such in the NEC.) On very large motors like in Steel mills it is not uncommon to run them at 4160 volts BTW.
And for the record, those are the voltages you will almost NEVER see on a voltmeter. When you put a true RMS meter on a 240 volt line it will read anywhere from 210 or less up to over 250 volts, Things like 241.34 are what you are going to get but I don't think I saw 240.000 twice in the last 40 years of sticking probes onto lugs.
Again not bustin' anybodies chops and I don't know why, but it's like fingernails on the blackboard when somebody says "220" in the USA. Overseas it's a different story but here is the NEC Noninals.
Toolmaker51 (Nov 23, 2018)
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