Condenser Fan Motor Wiring for Goodman 3 Ton

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Hello Everyone,

I have a GOODMAN A/C Heat Pump Model# CPLE 36-1 installed 3 years ago. Last week I turned the unit on, the compressor hums (not run)about 3-5 minutes and stop quiet. Also the condenser fan did not run. I called the A/C installer back to check and he said the condenser motor is bad and he said the fan motor only warranty for 1 year although I called Goodman Customer service who said my unit is warranty 5 years for Compressor and all function parts.

I can not wait for repairman to come back;therefore, I buy a new A.O Smith Condenser Fan Motor to match the old motor 1/4 HP, 1075 RPM 208-230 V, Single Phase, 48 Y Enclosed, CAP 5 MFD , 370 VAC.

I am confused because the Old motor has 3 wires: Black, Brown and Purple:

* Black wires------->Contactor T 1.
* Brown ---------> Capacitor terminal marked F. This is Dual Function capacitor Model # 27L568, 45 MFD / 5 MFD 370 VAC Protect P968 B9457 - 7200 /GREEN
* Purple ------------> DF2 terminal in Defrost Control Board.
The Defrost Control Board # 0334 1084-200 C GOODMAN P/N B 12260-08.

Here the rest of Wires I observe from the outside unit:
* Med. Yellow wire from Compressor connects-------> Capacitor marked H.(Compressor).
*A short Med. Red wire connects Capacitor marked C (Common) to contactor T2 and another long Med. Red from the same Capacitor terminal marked C connects -------> DF1 terminal in Defrost Control Board.
* Big Black wire from compressor connects --------> Contactor T1.
* Big Red wire from compressor connects --------> Contactor T2.
It also confuse me that why Black wire (Power) connects -----> to L2 and White wire to L1.

The new matching A.O Smith motor, (Model# F48K92A01) has 4 wires: Brown, Brown with white stripe ( Both have female terminals ), Black and Yellow (W/O terminals).
The diagram on the new motor shows 2 Brown wires to Capacitor, Black and Yellow to 2 lines. Like you said when buying a new motor we should buy a new capacitor, but the box outside has no room to fit another capacitor 5 MFD with the old one. The old capacitor has Dual Function 45 / 5 MFD. I test the old capacitor with Digital ohmmeter between those terminals C + H and C + F ------> Results of 2 measures, the numbers reading climb high then scaling back to Infinity. Is that still good?

I hope I provide enough infomation for all the experts to help me to walk thru this maze.
Thank you very much for your time to help.

First, mount the new capacitor in the unit, install the 2 brown wires from the new motor to it, just leave the old dual cap. in as well. You may need to buy a spade connector to install the yellow wire to the defrost board, put the black wire in the same place on the contactor as the old fan motor, this should get ya goin. make sense??

If you can't find room to mount the extra capacitor, hook the solid brown wire on the dual cap., and wire nut the brown wire with the white stripe, this will work as well.

I'm a bit confused, you have posted this same question three times, just yesterday t_top gave you a perfectly good answer.

Yes, I could not find T-Top answering; therfore, I Repost it in the right topic: Heating & Air conditioning. Later I found my 1st posting in the Introduction and got T-TOP response.

Again, thank you all very much.