Red Jacket 50N1 control box help.

[rhuian]

Bought this house a few years back and am just now getting around to putting my well to work. I pulled the pump out yesterday and this is what I found:

RED JACKET, 1/2 HP 208/230 VOLT,60HZ,11H 7.2A,CODE

L,50N1,3450 RPM,PT.179-314,3 WIRE

There's no control box in the garage where the wires terminate. If there was one it was cut out. I need to find a diagram or person who knows what sorta Cap I'm going to need when building my own control box.

Any pointers?

[valveman]

No sense in reinventing the wheel. Control boxes are not that expensive. Just get a 1/2 HP Franklin box and you are in business.

[rhuian]

No sense in reinventing the wheel. Control boxes are not that expensive. Just get a 1/2 HP Franklin box and you are in business.

Thanks, Thats what I was initially going to do but I'd talked to a local guy who didn't think that my particular pump had a Franklin motor. It has a plastic cap on the bottom which lead him to believe it was one of the pumps where Red Jacket used their own motor. I looked for a Red Jacket CB but couldn't find one.

Is there any real way to tell which motor I'm dealing with and does it matter? Will a Franklin box work either way?

[LLigetfa]

My Grundfos doesn't have a Franklin motor but I use a Franklin control box. Are you sure it is a 3 wire and needs a control box? Maybe it's 2 wires plus ground?

[rhuian]

It has red, yellow and black. I think 2 wire plus ground would be black black and green?

[valveman]

With just red, yellow, black, without a green you can't be sure. They could be using red, yellow, black because that is the only kind of wire they had. Then they splice it to two blacks and a green at the motor. Really need an ohm meter to see if any of those wires are grounded. If one of them is grounded, it is a two wire motor. If the two lowest ohm readings addup to the highest ohm reading between the three wires, it is a three wire motor and needs a control box.

[rhuian]

With just red, yellow, black, without a green you can't be sure. They could be using red, yellow, black because that is the only kind of wire they had. Then they splice it to two blacks and a green at the motor. Really need an ohm meter to see if any of those wires are grounded. If one of them is grounded, it is a two wire motor. If the two lowest ohm readings addup to the highest ohm reading between the three wires, it is a three wire motor and needs a control box.

Thanks, I'd already picked up a 1/2 horse control box from Lowes and wired it up and it works!