Dodgy Pump

[Last Plumber]

How can you text them with a multi meter ?

By testing the resistance through the winding is correct and that the voltages to and neutral from are present and correct too.

I need to apologise before we go any further.
I've just looked up the spinning gadget you're on about ( because I've never used one) and it does show them being used next to AC. Solenoid. It is looking like I was wrong here. Sorry for opening my mouth and sorry for confusing anyone.

I was thinking of the pump windings being set up as a rotating magnetic field due to the capacitor.
The solenoid doesn't have one so I thought it would not work because the single phase alone cannot create a rotating magnetic field. It can and does however create lines of magnetic flux that might move a spinny gadget.

It is still not the best way of testing things. It's a bit like relying on a volt stick to tell you if something is dead. Hit n miss.

 

[Stanios]

By testing the resistance through the winding is correct and that the voltages to and neutral from are present and correct too.

I need to apologise before we go any further.
I've just looked up the spinning gadget you're on about ( because I've never used one) and it does show them being used next to AC. Solenoid. It is looking like I was wrong here. Sorry for opening my mouth and sorry for confusing anyone.

I was thinking of the pump windings being set up as a rotating magnetic field due to the capacitor.
The solenoid doesn't have one so I thought it would not work because the single phase alone cannot create a rotating magnetic field. It can and does however create lines of magnetic flux that might move a spinny gadget.

It is still not the best way of testing things. It's a bit like relying on a volt stick to tell you if something is dead. Hit n miss.

No harm done mate, I've replaced the pump tonight boiler working away. The gadget spun, resistances were bang on, live 240 so it threw me off the course.