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Hello.  Could someone please tell me which is the Common, Start, and Run on this particular compressor? Correct me if I'm wrong but I would say, the very top is the common, bottom left is start, and bottom right is the start?  I just want to be 100% sure, because many have told me this isn't always the case, that I would have to check this compressors manual first, but I looked it up and can't find a wiring diagram for this one.  Thanks all!

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Pretty much the standard configuration. 

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On any split phase compressor, the start winding will read more ohms, and the run will read a lower value. I do this:

I take an ohms measurement across all 3 combinations of 2 pins; the pair with the most ohms between them is start and run; the other pin is then common. Once you determine which pin is common, the higher reading between it and another pin is start, the lower is run.

Let' say you measure 3, 4, and 7 ohms across the pins. The 7 ohms is reading excludes the common; it's the start and run windings in series(3+4=7). The start and run windings are connected at the common. Then 3 is run, and 4 is start.

@citizenXWhere's the relay in the above diagram? 

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28 minutes ago, vee8power said:

 

@citizenXWhere's the relay in the above diagram? 

Dunno. Not my diagram, just one I found on the internet showing the windings. Probably some new direct wire environmental mandate designed to sell more compressors. 😜

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9 minutes ago, citizenX said:

Dunno. Not my diagram,

I thought it was a portion of a schematic; I can't make sense of it.

12 minutes ago, citizenX said:

Probably some new direct wire environmental mandate designed to sell more compressors. 😜

I knew it was government! As drawn, it won't work.

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I think just a unconventional symbol for the relay or PTC between start/run windings, (That's not the symbol for a run capacitor, is it?).

That's the general common compressor terminal setup but some are found turned upside down from this displayed layout.

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