After doing an hour of jointing work on our Euro 300, made by Minimax, the tablesaw would not start. Actually, it trips the circuit breakers at each attempt to turn it on. The comination machine is about 2 years old. I used it every weekend only, so its not like its getting that much use to wear out a motor. Anyone have experience with such a problem? This happened once before, and after a few days it suddenly availed itself to starting up normally. I plan to have an electrician check it, but here on Kauai there are no techs for this particular level of sophistication (three motor groups and a central switching panel), so they will be a little lost, I’m afraid. Just thought someone out there might be able to shed a glimmer of information. Thanks. The jointer/planer continues to start up fine. Will check the shaper unit this morning, but assume it works fine, too. It tried plugging into a different circuit, too, to confirm that the circuit or the breaker is not to blame. We have it on a 20 amp circuit.
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Had a similar problem with my Felder combi tool. Turned out to be a bad internal breaker or switch component. I ended up going to a commercial electrician with motor control experience. He figured it out shortly, even though all the manuals were in German. Only cost me $100. to fix and well worth it.
Peter,
Sounds to me like a capacitor went on your table saw motor. On european machines they are often in the control panel and not attached directly to the motor like on most american ones.
They are basically cylindrical things with wires coming out of one end. Many of the newer ones are plastic (the cans), and will often show "bubbles" in the plastic skin when they short out.
Do not touch any of the leads in the control panel even with the electricity turned off. The capacitors can store a whole lot of juice for a long time. If you see that any of the cans have bubbles or obvious places which have gotten hot, I would order new ones and have an electrician install them, or very carefully do it myself.
It could also very well be switching as Peter has already pointed out.
Good Luck,
Clampman
Edited 2/27/2003 10:28:12 AM ET by clampman
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