bowdenjeffery
New Member
I am a total electronics noob and am trying to pick it up through experimentation so all help is useful. I found a microwave today during bulk pick up which i salvaged the transformer for to build an arc welder. I also decided to take out some of the other components motors, ect.. to play with.
So i decided to hook the fan into the plug cable and see what would happen... I wired the two close wires on the fan to the two voltage carrying wires on the plug and the ground to the third one. The fan says 120 volts, .3amps, so I figured it would work. I plugged it in and it spun real fast for about 15 seconds and then sparked and smoked and died..
As part of the learning process I want to know what went wrong.. Were the amps from wall too high? Would adding resistors in the circuit somehow have fixed this problem?
So i decided to hook the fan into the plug cable and see what would happen... I wired the two close wires on the fan to the two voltage carrying wires on the plug and the ground to the third one. The fan says 120 volts, .3amps, so I figured it would work. I plugged it in and it spun real fast for about 15 seconds and then sparked and smoked and died..
As part of the learning process I want to know what went wrong.. Were the amps from wall too high? Would adding resistors in the circuit somehow have fixed this problem?