Ran the A/C today and the house wasn't getting cool, so I went out to the condensing unit and the condenser fan wasn't running. Figured maybe it's a bad condenser fan motor. CU is a Goodman with a GE motor, couldn't get a GE motor, but bought a A/O Smith motor with same specs. Problem is that the GE motor had three wires and the new A/O Smith has 4 wires. GE had Black (wired to contactor), Purple and Brown (both to capacitor).
The new motor has Brown, Brown with white stripe, yellow and black. The capacitor has three contacts, the brown wire goes to a contact labeled fan, the purple wire went to a spot on the capacity that wasn't labeled. There was a third contactor on the capacitor labeled HERM, but that only had a wire from the compressor. Assuming I'm going to replace the capacitor with the same one, how would I wire the 4 wires on the new motor?
Also, I purchased a capacitor for the new motor, but it only had two contactors and I certainly couldn't figure that out. Some other posts seemed to show that you could use two capacitors, but I'd rather just get the correct replacement capacitor, since there is already a spot for it.
The new motor has Brown, Brown with white stripe, yellow and black. The capacitor has three contacts, the brown wire goes to a contact labeled fan, the purple wire went to a spot on the capacity that wasn't labeled. There was a third contactor on the capacitor labeled HERM, but that only had a wire from the compressor. Assuming I'm going to replace the capacitor with the same one, how would I wire the 4 wires on the new motor?
Also, I purchased a capacitor for the new motor, but it only had two contactors and I certainly couldn't figure that out. Some other posts seemed to show that you could use two capacitors, but I'd rather just get the correct replacement capacitor, since there is already a spot for it.
