Motor must be wired through a starter?

[flanajb]

I am looking at buying a 240V motor so that I can build a vibrating table. Plan is to put an offset weight onto the pulley and use a 0.3KW 2 pole motor

Machine mart do a 2 pole 1Hp motor for ~ £70, but it stipulates the following, and I would appreciate if anyone can tell me what this actually means and why?

It states "It is a condition of our warranty that motors must be wired through a starter with full overload protection"

 

[CHJ]

The requirement is for the control switch such as the NVR unit to have a current limiting factor built in, either a simple thermal Circuit breaker or electronic equivalent to prevent excessive current in the motor windings if it does not start up to running speed in a respectable time or is stalled due to mechanical overload for some reason.

This sort of switch with current overload control

 

[woodpig]

Can't help with the motor but what's the table for?!

 

[kostello]

I bet it's for vibrating concrete....

 

[RogerS]

Mixing next year's Xmas pudding ?

 

[kostello]

Maybe some sort of s8x toy?!

 

[Doug B]

It sounds to me that there is no overload protection on the motor so to prevent burn out of the motor due to trying to start the motor with too high a load on the motor spindle overload protection is required in the switch. All you need is a DOL starter with overload protection from somewhere like Toolstation.

If you look at Bob 9 fingers web page he explains all about motors.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.minchi ... Issue2.pdf