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| derb
 |  "extra yellow wire on condenser fan"
, posted Mon 19 Jun 23:23  
I just replaced my condenser fan on a York A/C unit. I bought a generic (GE) fan motor. I had it matched up at the parts supply. The old one had 3 wires: brown, purple (to capisitor) and black. The new fan has a 3rd yellow wire. I hooked it up not using the yellow and it only works in reverse. It has 2 wires to switch polarity on top of the motor, but does not run at all when switched. Does anyone know where the yellow wire goes? Thanks Derb
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| Banger
| "Re(1):extra yellow wire on condenser fan" , posted Tue 20 Jun 07:52
The new motor probably has two wires for the capacitor - where the old one had one and shared the L2 connection - So you'd have 2 wires going to the capacitor, and the other 2 going to L1 and L2 (the wire on the old capacitor that didn't come from the fan motor). Look at the side of the motor housing - there should be a pretty simple wiring diagram showing where the wires go.
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