Jerome
11-19-2010, 11:47 AM
I think my head electrician is getting senile (Me)
I set my two Fein Vacs up on outlets with switches located close to the computer. I added a new circuit and thought I did a pretty neat job.
Now comes the dumb part. I have 3 phase power and to get it I have a wild leg. for anyone not familiar with this on a wild leg system you have 3 live wires. Two are 110 and the third is 220. When used properly they work fine. You have probably guessed it by now. I hooked the Vacs to a 220 line. I was lucky only one of them has a burned up motor, the other one seems okay.
There were plenty of hints that should have alerted me to the problem. The vacs both started to sound like jet engines. The hoses tried to collapse and I seemed to have super vacuum.
Anyway to the advice part. Grainger has a motor that looks identical to the Fein moter I burned up. Has anybody tried using one as a replacement for the original? The Model number is 2M429
I could probably have sneaked it by and got a warranty replacement but I have managed to live 66 years without cheating anybody so why start now.
Jerome
I set my two Fein Vacs up on outlets with switches located close to the computer. I added a new circuit and thought I did a pretty neat job.
Now comes the dumb part. I have 3 phase power and to get it I have a wild leg. for anyone not familiar with this on a wild leg system you have 3 live wires. Two are 110 and the third is 220. When used properly they work fine. You have probably guessed it by now. I hooked the Vacs to a 220 line. I was lucky only one of them has a burned up motor, the other one seems okay.
There were plenty of hints that should have alerted me to the problem. The vacs both started to sound like jet engines. The hoses tried to collapse and I seemed to have super vacuum.
Anyway to the advice part. Grainger has a motor that looks identical to the Fein moter I burned up. Has anybody tried using one as a replacement for the original? The Model number is 2M429
I could probably have sneaked it by and got a warranty replacement but I have managed to live 66 years without cheating anybody so why start now.
Jerome