My compressor fan went out last night, bearings seized up, so I got a new one and installed today.
Dual run capacitor, old motor had brown wire to fan on the cap, purple to C on the cap, and black to a defrost circuit board.
New motor has 4 wires: brown, brown white stripe, black, white.
I capped off the brown with white stripe and connected everything to same color as original (white going where purple was to C on the cap).
Turned the system on, condenser kicked on but fan did nothing.
I tried swapping black and white on the motor and tested again. Same thing.
I then noticed the fan motor was VERY hot. Did I do something wrong here? Or was this motor DOA?
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