So I am no electrical brain child. I have 110 volts 15 amp wall socket. I have a universal 110vac/dc motor. 60/50 hz Full load of 1.1 amps. Now the confusion. I want to run this motor from my wall socket. I am not very smart with electrical but I can hook up wires. Can I just hook the wires up and plug it in? Or do I need a resistor? Or transformer? Dont want to burn this motor out. Any electrical smart pants out there? Cheapest way is best for me ;-)
if it's rated to run on 110 V AC, then you just need to connect it to a cord and plug it in. You can kill yourself doing this if you don't know what you're doing.
It's the amp part that is confusing me. If I put 15 amp to it will it blow or do I have to reduce the amperage to the 1 amp?
The motor will only use (draw) 1.1 amps from the wall socket. The wall socket is capable of providing 15 amps which means you can plug something else into the socket in addition to the motor. If all of the wires are loose (there is no plug on the wire coming out of the motor) and you don't understand color coding of the wires you might want to find someone that knows what they are doing. If there is no plug on the wires coming out of the motor you might be better off taking it to a shop that rebuilds electric motors and have them install a plug on the wires coming out of the motor. Charlie Stephens
Ok this sounds straight forward like I had thought. As for killing myself. I could do that by driving to work
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