Comments on: Vandercook Uni I motor help

By: Casey McGarr

Casey McGarr — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:15:50 +0000

I called the motor place and the two individual black wire are load wires. He said I can tape them off unless the motor has a lot of load. I said it didn’t, therefore I’m taping them off.

Unless, someone can chime in and tell me that the load wire need to be hooked up.

Thanks in advance,

Casey

By: Casey McGarr

Casey McGarr — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:03:24 +0000

Carrie, Thanks for the Flickr page, my motor is not set up the same way, however, I appreciate you contributing to my challenge of the wire delimna.

Alex,
When I picked up the motor there were two red wires and each had a black wire twisted to them. Then there were two other single black wires.

I’ll call the motor place that rebuilt my motor.

Thanks everyone.

Casey

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:42:11 +0000

the motor wiring scheme above is for the automatic press, so most of it it superfluous (except for the upper left hand section).

It’s clear that there’s just two black wires going from the press to the motor. The motor was an off the shelf part, and could be exchanged for other brands. So your two black wires from the motor have to connect to the two black wires from the press. The question is, what to do with the two pairs of red/black wires, which are internal to the motor (and therefore have nothing really to so with vandercook). My guess is that they should connect, but maybe you should ask the folks who rewound your motor?

By: Carrie Hersom

Carrie Hersom — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:35:17 +0000

Hi Casey,

I don’t know if this will help or not but I scanned a wiring schematic I have for a Uni 1. Here’s the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anemoneletterpress/3751745984/

Good Luck!
Carrie

By: Casey McGarr

Casey McGarr — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:00:33 +0000

Paul or Fritz,

Is there a motor schematic hook-up (connection) for the Uni 1 that is available do you know?

By: Casey McGarr

Casey McGarr — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:16:42 +0000

Alex,

Thanks for the replies. Yes, we have different motors. I don’t know where the two black single wires go, hmmmm. Daniel Morris was going to look at his press today and maybe we have the same motors.

Paul, thanks for the help in asking other people for comments. I’ll keep checking back here for replies.

Waiting patiently,

Casey
iLP

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:39:10 +0000

Casey-
I took the covers off my motor and took a picture for you, but it’s of little help, my motor is a little different model.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/press817/3745961069/

I’d say your black switch & motor wires connect and the pairs of red/black go to each other.

By: Paul Moxon, Moderator

Paul Moxon, Moderator — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:11:45 +0000

I’ve asked a couple people to comment, hopefully you’ll get some help soon.

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:41:42 +0000

Casey-
Have you received any answer on this? I’d love to help, but will have to take apart things to do so. Let me know if no one else offers advice, and i’ll take some pictures of mine.

-alex