[BC] Old flasher motor...

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

One coil connects to 120 vac. The other coil connects to 120 vac, but through the capacitor. This causes the magnetic field from each coil to have a slight phase shift. The aluminum disc is a shorted turn in this moving magnetic field. This causes the disc to move. You can change the direction of rotation by changing the coil that gets the capacitor or by changing the polarity of either (but both) coil. 

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Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Peterson" <kzerocx at rap.midco.net>
  

The motor is a brushless unit, with a coil on each
side of a rotating metal disk.  The wiring from
the two coils and the 0.1 MFD, 400 volt capacitor
is dangling free.

I thought it might be fun to get this old motor
going again, just to show people how it used to be
done.  Where does the capacitor go in the scheme
of things?  Does anyone have a wiring diagram?  I
have not been able to find anything on the
Internet.