Hi everyone, I hope you are doing well, I'm in need of some help,

I have a new 1/3 HP motor for my hobby lathe. Its replacing a 1/3hp 110V 1725rpm single phase reversable motor that the wires insulation had gone to mush on due to being 80 years old (lathe is from 1939)

I have a question about the wiring, I figured it was going to be straight forward but its not as simple as I had thought and figured I'd better ask before wiring it.

I'm not worried about putting a reversing switch in it right now, I would like to wire this so its spins CW and at a later date I can add the reversing switch and wire that in. for what I'm using the lathe for I cant see needing reverser very much

so my question is where do i hook up the wires. my cord has black, white and green. white is common, black is hot and green is ground.

i have attached pics of the motors info plate and wiring terminals

there is only 3 terminals in the motor and they are labeled as--
the top is L1 with one purple wire on it
the middle is 4 with two blues and a red wire
the bottom is L2 and 2 with one black and one yellow wire

Thanks

 

As it appears, L1 & L2 are the 120v power in, L2 is neutral, L1 is live the GND goes to the green coloured screw .

 

ok, thanks, that makes loads more sense now that I read your post.

so with the wires I have in my cord (white, black and green) I hook the black wire to the L1, the white wire to L2 and the green wire to the green screw.

I'm assuming if I get a get a reversing switch I'd hook the black wire to L1, the white wire to L2, the green wire to the ground screw and the red wire to terminal 4?

 

To reverse the motor, swap the Red and Black wires in the motor terminals 2&4, as stated on the plate.

 

I guess that is where my problem lies, my red and black will be from the same power source.

It will be ran off a 2200 watt Honda generator. It a single 15amp plug I'll be using.

There are 3 wires one being a ground.

The red and black will both be from the same terminal on the generator.

If I switch the red and black I'll be putting the same wire back on each terminal.

I had thought if i put the black wire on L1 it would run in CW and if I switch the black wire to terminal 4 ( removing it from L1) it would be CCW.
But using a reversing switch so I don't have to actually to touch the wiring.

 

Set up a switch to swap the Red & Blk. !

 

Awesome. Thanks. I have it working in CW rotation now. I'll order the reversing switch this evening.