There is a big old GE inductance 220 1hp electric motor up in the corn crib. It went bad last nite. (I won't talk about the 3 days of snow coming this afternoon, getting the corn out, 2 acres of bean left & the combine broke too, and such....)Can this thing be replaced with a modern capacitor motor? When the real old one went bad I was in high school, and I recall there was an issue of the whole farm having thin wiring, this being a very high start-up load, and that it should always be an iductance electric motor. It runs a flat conveyer belt up in the peak of the crib to distribute the ear corn, and does take quite a drag to rev up to speed. After that the 1hp seems to run it fine. Would a capacitor motor be able to do the job? I could safely go to 1.5 hp I guess, would not want to push the thin wiring beyond that. (Used to be a 110 circut that ran the 1hp ind. motors, dad upgraded to 220, but used the same &^%$% thin wire on a long overhead run...) As long as you read this far, wonder what went wrong with the old motor? It makes noise, spins slowly in either direction, has no power. Thanks from a frustrated farmer during a very long fall,
--->Paul
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