I'm rewiring my TS for 240V...the motor is easy, since the diagram is right there
on the case. However, the switch has left me with one question. I picked up a
GE CR101 motor starter switch (ebay) and mounted an additional box on the front of
the TS to hold the switch. However, there is no ground screw on the switch...unlike
virtually every other box-mounted switch I've had in my hands. There are three
terminal pairs on the switch...but I believe the 3rd terminal is for 3-phase power
and that the ground wire should NEVER be switched.
There are screws holding the switch casing together that contact the front plate, so
I'm thinking that the ground wires from the power and the motor should be tied
together with a wire to this screw on the switch and another wire to the cabinet
of the saw. Sound right?
TIA,
Chris
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yep, you are correct.
BRuce
Chris Merrill wrote:
> I'm rewiring my TS for 240V...the motor is easy, since the diagram is
> right there
> on the case. However, the switch has left me with one question. I
> picked up a
> GE CR101 motor starter switch (ebay) and mounted an additional box on
> the front of
> the TS to hold the switch. However, there is no ground screw on the
> switch...unlike
> virtually every other box-mounted switch I've had in my hands. There
> are three
> terminal pairs on the switch...but I believe the 3rd terminal is for
> 3-phase power
> and that the ground wire should NEVER be switched.
>
> There are screws holding the switch casing together that contact the
> front plate, so
> I'm thinking that the ground wires from the power and the motor should
> be tied
> together with a wire to this screw on the switch and another wire to the
> cabinet
> of the saw. Sound right?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
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BRuce
if you are running wires in a conduit then they would be single strands
and you would not run a white one, just multiple pairs (or 3s) of colors.
BRuce
Morgans wrote:
> "Roy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>"Wilson Lamb" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>You don't have a neutral with 240V. You have two hots, both switched,
>
> and
>
>>>ground. If you hook up with conventional romex house wire, You'll have
>>>black and white. It's common to put some colored tape on the white at
>
> the
>
>>>emds, to signal that it's a hot wire.
>>
>>Common? I should hope so! Isn't it required by code? Not to mention
>>common sense?
>
>
> More common to mark a white as hot, when multiple circuits are run in
> conduit.
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BRuce
You don't have a neutral with 240V. You have two hots, both switched, and
ground. If you hook up with conventional romex house wire, You'll have
black and white. It's common to put some colored tape on the white at the
emds, to signal that it's a hot wire. Ground connected as described.
Be sure to use the set of contacts that are connected to the coil, otherwise
the relay won't pull in. One set will remain unused, if you really have a 3
phase starter.
Wilson
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:K4%[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Chris Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >I'm rewiring my TS for 240V...the motor is easy, since the diagram is
> >right there
> >on the case. However, the switch has left me with one question. I
picked up a
> >GE CR101 motor starter switch (ebay) and mounted an additional box on
> >the front of
> >the TS to hold the switch. However, there is no ground screw on the
> >switch...unlike
> >virtually every other box-mounted switch I've had in my hands. There are
three
> >terminal pairs on the switch...but I believe the 3rd terminal is for
> >3-phase power
> >and that the ground wire should NEVER be switched.
> >
> >There are screws holding the switch casing together that contact the
> >front plate, so
> >I'm thinking that the ground wires from the power and the motor should be
tied
> >together with a wire to this screw on the switch and another wire to the
cabinet
> >of the saw. Sound right?
>
> Need some care with the terminology here.
>
> Have to differentiate between "neutral", and "ground".
> Neutral wire is white; ground is green or 'bare'.
>
> "Ground" is *NEVER* switched.
>
> "Neutral" is usually _not_ switched, although *if*done*correctly* it is
safe
> to do so.
>
> "Neutral" is *NOT* to be tied to 'chassis' or other grounding point,
except at
> the main service entry point.
>
> "Ground" is intended to be connected to chassis/frame, etc.
>
>
>
> I suspect you were calling the white wire 'ground'.
[email protected] wrote:
> Need some care with the terminology here.
AFAIK, I used all correct terminology...
> Have to differentiate between "neutral", and "ground".
> Neutral wire is white; ground is green or 'bare'.
If I understand correctly, there is no neutral on a 240 circuit.
> "Ground" is *NEVER* switched.
That's what I said, right?
> "Neutral" is usually _not_ switched, although *if*done*correctly* it is safe
> to do so.
I thought that was part of the reason for using a 'motor' rated switch -
because it switches both lines off (called a double-pole switch?).
> "Neutral" is *NOT* to be tied to 'chassis' or other grounding point, except at
> the main service entry point.
Again, I don't think there is a neutral on a 240V circuit.
> "Ground" is intended to be connected to chassis/frame, etc.
> I suspect you were calling the white wire 'ground'.
No...I was calling the green wire ground. The white wire is hot, in this
case, as well as the black wire.
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In article <[email protected]>,
Chris Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>I'm rewiring my TS for 240V...the motor is easy, since the diagram is
>right there
>on the case. However, the switch has left me with one question. I picked up a
>GE CR101 motor starter switch (ebay) and mounted an additional box on
>the front of
>the TS to hold the switch. However, there is no ground screw on the
>switch...unlike
>virtually every other box-mounted switch I've had in my hands. There are three
>terminal pairs on the switch...but I believe the 3rd terminal is for
>3-phase power
>and that the ground wire should NEVER be switched.
>
>There are screws holding the switch casing together that contact the
>front plate, so
>I'm thinking that the ground wires from the power and the motor should be tied
>together with a wire to this screw on the switch and another wire to the cabinet
>of the saw. Sound right?
Need some care with the terminology here.
Have to differentiate between "neutral", and "ground".
Neutral wire is white; ground is green or 'bare'.
"Ground" is *NEVER* switched.
"Neutral" is usually _not_ switched, although *if*done*correctly* it is safe
to do so.
"Neutral" is *NOT* to be tied to 'chassis' or other grounding point, except at
the main service entry point.
"Ground" is intended to be connected to chassis/frame, etc.
I suspect you were calling the white wire 'ground'.
Bob Walters wrote:
> Wire nut the motor's green to the power cord green, and to the box
> (with a pigtail, if the box is metal).
> Then connect two power cord wires (black) and (red) to the LINE side of
> the switch, and the two hot motor leads to the LOAD side of the switch.
> The power wire should NOT be HOT during this installation! Unplug it,
> or pull the fuses, or turn off the disconnect switch.
Thanks for the confirmation. After reading the previous answers, I was
starting to believe nobody understood the question...or I was drunk when
writing it ;)
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DCorrect!
Wire nut the motor's green to the power cord green, and to the box
(with a pigtail, if the box is metal).
Then connect two power cord wires (black) and (red) to the LINE side
of the switch, and the two hot motor leads to the LOAD side of the switch.
The power wire should NOT be HOT during this installation! Unplug it,
or pull the fuses, or turn off the disconnect switch.
Chris Merrill wrote:
> I'm rewiring my TS for 240V...the motor is easy, since the diagram is
> right there
> on the case. However, the switch has left me with one question. I
> picked up a
> GE CR101 motor starter switch (ebay) and mounted an additional box on
> the front of
> the TS to hold the switch. However, there is no ground screw on the
> switch...unlike
> virtually every other box-mounted switch I've had in my hands. There
> are three
> terminal pairs on the switch...but I believe the 3rd terminal is for
> 3-phase power
> and that the ground wire should NEVER be switched.
>
> There are screws holding the switch casing together that contact the
> front plate, so
> I'm thinking that the ground wires from the power and the motor should
> be tied
> together with a wire to this screw on the switch and another wire to the
> cabinet
> of the saw. Sound right?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
You are correct on all accounts
Ms Leslie
"Chris Merrill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm rewiring my TS for 240V...the motor is easy, since the diagram is
right there
> on the case. However, the switch has left me with one question. I picked
up a
> GE CR101 motor starter switch (ebay) and mounted an additional box on the
front of
> the TS to hold the switch. However, there is no ground screw on the
switch...unlike
> virtually every other box-mounted switch I've had in my hands. There are
three
> terminal pairs on the switch...but I believe the 3rd terminal is for
3-phase power
> and that the ground wire should NEVER be switched.
>
> There are screws holding the switch casing together that contact the front
plate, so
> I'm thinking that the ground wires from the power and the motor should be
tied
> together with a wire to this screw on the switch and another wire to the
cabinet
> of the saw. Sound right?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
> --
> ************************************
> Chris Merrill
> [email protected]
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> ************************************
>
Morgans wrote:
> There is an interesting opportunity for the original poster, now that he has
> a magnetic starter. If you want to, you can add a 110 volt box on the side
> of the saw, and have it hot when the starter is pulled in. Then you will
> have to have a neutral, and a 4 prong plug.
That's a great suggestion, except I've already got a remote-controlled DC.
Might work well for someone else, though!
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"Wilson Lamb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> You don't have a neutral with 240V. You have two hots, both switched, and
> ground. If you hook up with conventional romex house wire, You'll have
> black and white. It's common to put some colored tape on the white at the
> emds, to signal that it's a hot wire.
Common? I should hope so! Isn't it required by code? Not to mention
common sense?
Morgans wrote:
> I many times do not start the DC, if I'm going to make a couple quick cuts.
> Then the vac does the job, and always ready.
I guess I'm missing your point. If you're going to make a 'couple quick cuts',
you use the vac instead of the DC? What is the point in having both? Sounds
like a pain to have both a DC and a vacuum hooked up to the TS. If you have
a DC, why not split a smaller hose to the blade guard?
BTW, I am installing a "motor starter switch", not a "magnetic starter". I'm
not sure if that affects your original comment, but they are two distinctly
different things, as you are probably aware.
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"Roy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Wilson Lamb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You don't have a neutral with 240V. You have two hots, both switched,
and
> > ground. If you hook up with conventional romex house wire, You'll have
> > black and white. It's common to put some colored tape on the white at
the
> > emds, to signal that it's a hot wire.
>
> Common? I should hope so! Isn't it required by code? Not to mention
> common sense?
\
Nope. None of mine are marked.
You look in a breaker box. You see a white stuffed in a breaker that has a
common trip. You says to yourself, self, that is a 220. The white be hot!
No problem here.
You goes to the other end of the wire, where it terminates in a box with
only one circuit, and has a funny lookin outlet, with prongs sideways, and
all. You says, self, this here be a 220 outlet, and when you opens up the
box, you see a white and black on the receptacle. No problem here.
See, even I didn't get cornfused, and I ain't the brightest bulb in the
string! :-)
Seriously, the only thing that needs to be marked is the white neutral
coming from your meter to the breaker box. And then that is usually black
wire with white tape or paint added to it.
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"Roy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Wilson Lamb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You don't have a neutral with 240V. You have two hots, both switched,
and
> > ground. If you hook up with conventional romex house wire, You'll have
> > black and white. It's common to put some colored tape on the white at
the
> > emds, to signal that it's a hot wire.
>
> Common? I should hope so! Isn't it required by code? Not to mention
> common sense?
More common to mark a white as hot, when multiple circuits are run in
conduit.
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Jim in NC
<BRuce> wrote in message news:1065925399.929916@sj-nntpcache-5...
> if you are running wires in a conduit then they would be single strands
> and you would not run a white one, just multiple pairs (or 3s) of colors.
>
> BRuce
Right, and I almost went there, and decided not to.
I have seen it done, where machines were being relocated, and a 110 needed
to become a 220, so rather than re-pull a new colored wire, a white was
marked with a piece of color tape at the box, and at the panel, and a new
double pole breaker installed with the color tape and the black wires.
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"Chris Merrill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Need some care with the terminology here.
>
> AFAIK, I used all correct terminology...
>
> > Have to differentiate between "neutral", and "ground".
> > Neutral wire is white; ground is green or 'bare'.
>
> If I understand correctly, there is no neutral on a 240 circuit.
>
> > "Ground" is *NEVER* switched.
>
> That's what I said, right?
>
> > "Neutral" is usually _not_ switched, although *if*done*correctly* it is
safe
> > to do so.
>
> I thought that was part of the reason for using a 'motor' rated switch -
> because it switches both lines off (called a double-pole switch?).
>
> > "Neutral" is *NOT* to be tied to 'chassis' or other grounding point,
except at
> > the main service entry point.
>
> Again, I don't think there is a neutral on a 240V circuit.
>
> > "Ground" is intended to be connected to chassis/frame, etc.
> > I suspect you were calling the white wire 'ground'.
>
> No...I was calling the green wire ground. The white wire is hot, in this
> case, as well as the black wire.
>
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>
There is an interesting opportunity for the original poster, now that he has
a magnetic starter. If you want to, you can add a 110 volt box on the side
of the saw, and have it hot when the starter is pulled in. Then you will
have to have a neutral, and a 4 prong plug.
I did this, so I could run a shop vac to the top of the guard, and catch
most of the dust coming off the top of the blade.
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"Chris Merrill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Morgans wrote:
> > There is an interesting opportunity for the original poster, now that he
has
> > a magnetic starter. If you want to, you can add a 110 volt box on the
side
> > of the saw, and have it hot when the starter is pulled in. Then you
will
> > have to have a neutral, and a 4 prong plug.
>
> That's a great suggestion, except I've already got a remote-controlled DC.
> Might work well for someone else, though!
>
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> ************************************
>
I many times do not start the DC, if I'm going to make a couple quick cuts.
Then the vac does the job, and always ready.
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"Chris Merrill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Morgans wrote:
> > I many times do not start the DC, if I'm going to make a couple quick
cuts.
> > Then the vac does the job, and always ready.
>
> I guess I'm missing your point. If you're going to make a 'couple quick
cuts',
> you use the vac instead of the DC? What is the point in having both?
Sounds
> like a pain to have both a DC and a vacuum hooked up to the TS. If you
have
> a DC, why not split a smaller hose to the blade guard?
>
>
> BTW, I am installing a "motor starter switch", not a "magnetic starter".
I'm
> not sure if that affects your original comment, but they are two
distinctly
> different things, as you are probably aware.
>
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>
The DC only gets the saw dust that falls into the bottom of the cabinet, and
a little more. For a couple cuts, you can wait until the next time the DC
starts to get that.
Why I don't split off from the DC? A had a vac sitting around doing
nothing, and under the saw table was a good place to store it, then if it's
under the saw, why not put it to use? Plus at the time I didn't have a
remote DC switch. I see the switch instead of magnetic starter now, but you
could still do this with the switch, and adding an un switched neutral wire.
Speaking of remote DC switches. I did a REAL Rube Goldberg to get a remote
for the DC at the school shop, where I teach.
I had an old garage door opener that the father in law gave me for parts. I
got a couple single pole, double throw micro switches, and put them in the
unit, so that when the opener was cycled, and the limit screw and contacts
moved, it would hit either switch at the end of the travel. One switch I
wired so that the normally open got closed, and would energize the "hold in"
circuit on the magnetic starter, then the contactors on the starter would
also be holding it in. The other switch was wired so the switch at normally
closed would open when the screw traveled, and break the starter's hold in
circuit, to shut it off. Everything is neatly inside the box, away from
prying hands, and it is working great!
Part of the complication of wiring it this way, was so the DC could also be
started from a different shop. A bonus is, that once I have turned it on,
the kids in the other shop can't turn it off, like they used to do!
Anyone top that for a Rube Goldberg? :-) I'm sure someone can!
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Jim in NC
After I moved in to my current residence, SHMBO asked me to remove a broken light bulb from the chandelier. Darned If I didn't get
zapped. I double checked the light switch (I was quite sure it was off since the other bulbs were not lit). After some
investigation, I found that the previous owner ( I sure hope not an electrician) had switched the neutral rather than the hot.
In my experience, almost without exception, strange electrical behavior can usually be traced to a neutral problem
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Al Reid
"Randy Chapman" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:CTDib.555816$cF.233682@rwcrnsc53...
> > "Neutral" is usually _not_ switched, although *if*done*correctly* it is
> safe
> > to do so.
>
> Listen to what he says.
>
> Above all, don't be an idiot and wire your garbage disposal switch so that
> it switches neutral.
>
> It might appear to work, but strange things will happen if it shorts out.
>
> DAMHIKT.
>
> --randy
>
>