I have a blower fan from my old AC unit. I want to use it to move some air through my shop to cool it down a bit. In the "Better safe than sorry" category, I thought I better stop by here to make sure I'm reading this diagram correctly...I am an extreme novice on all things electrical...

The diagram is a bit fuzzy, but it looks like I can simply connect the 2 BROWN wires to the capacitor, and then BLACK and WHITE to a 110 source (say, via an extension cord). Perhaps a on/off switch. That being said, it also looks like I could set this up to be variable speed - using RED, ORANGE, and BLUE wires.

So, questions...

A) Browns to CAP and Black and White to power - work?
B) Switch -- needs to be rated at least 115V (can it be higher?) and um...how many amps?
C) To use variable speed, say a ST5P rotary switch?? I searched for this but I'm not sure I'm searching for the right "thing."

Any help would be awesome!
-Rudy

 

Looks straight forward enough?
The two brown to the cap, and white to neutral.
Take the live or hot, to whatever speed you need, Blk=Hi and Red Low, with the other two, BLU & ORG intermediate.
It is rated for 5amps so any switch in the 10-15 amps range would be OK of switching while running.
Max.