Intro
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hello everyone
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with the growing popularity of ec motors
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or electrically commutated motors
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for their power output and their energy
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savings these motors are becoming more
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and more popular and are being used more
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and more in hood ventilation
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applications
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the most common motors are fractionally
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horsepower motors but the
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availability of larger motors is
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increasing there are several
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options for controlling these motors but
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in this video i'm only going to cover
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one of those and that's wiring our ec
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motor to one of our hood control
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packages
Safety
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be sure to follow all safe work
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practices especially the use of ppe
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all circuits should be de-energized
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prior to any wiring or service
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remember many of our controls will have
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more than one circuit that will need to
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be turned off after de-energizing the
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circuit
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verify that the circuit is dead then
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lock out and tag the breaker
EC Motor Control Options
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it's important to check the equipment on
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the job site as well as the job site
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schematics to see what type of equipment
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you have and how it's going to be
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controlled because there's several ways
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to control an ec
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motor the first is a controller mounted
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on the fan itself which may control the
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motor when power is applied
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or controlled remotely the second way we
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control ec motors is through a hood
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control
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package this video will only cover
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wiring the ec motor to the circuit board
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in the hood control package
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in this scenario the high voltage power
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will be applied to the fan all the time
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and only the low voltage signal power
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will be controlled
How an EC Motor Works
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before we get to the wiring specifics
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let's look at how an ec motor works
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the motor receives high voltage power
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just like a traditional motor
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however in many cases the power is
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present at the motor all the time and
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fed directly from a breaker in the
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building breaker panel
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in order to run the motor must receive a
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pulse width modulation or pwm signal
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supplied by a fan motor controller or in
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this case directly from the circuit
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board in our hood controls
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this low voltage signal is fed to the
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motor control module
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located on the motor which in turn
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provides a soft start and controls the
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motor speed
Wiring a Fan to a Hood Control Package
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now let's look at how to wire a fan to
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our hood control package
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start by wiring the high voltage for the
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motor straight to the breaker
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so the fan will have standing power all
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the time
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then locate the low voltage wires in the
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j box of the fan
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and wire these with twisted shielded
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pair to the hood control package
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and land them on the correct p terminals
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let's look at a real life example of how
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this gets wired
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looking at the job schematic we see the
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high voltage listed here for each fan
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and the low voltage listed here for each
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fan
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now let's take a detailed look at the
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low voltage wiring
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locate the low voltage wiring on the fan
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and run that down to the hood control
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package
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these wires will be terminated on the
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hood control package on the p
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terminals located here note that the low
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voltage wiring is polarity sensitive
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if you get the polarity wrong and apply
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power the corresponding p
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terminals will be shorted there are four
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sets of p
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terminals and it's critical to get the
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correct fan on the correct terminals by
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matching the fan number to the schematic
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matching the fan to the correct
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terminals is critical to air balancing
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and proper fan operation in a fire
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condition
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once wiring is complete apply power and
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turn on the fans to test the fan
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operation
Closing
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if you have any questions on this or any
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of our products feel free to call or
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email
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thanks for watching
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you
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