Each electrical motor comes with an information plate. That plate provides details about the motor itself, and it’s optimum operating parameters.

Voltage
One of the boxes on the information plate is marked Voltage. The number in this box identifies the design voltage for that particular motor.

The electric motor may be operated safely at any voltage that is within plus or minus 10% of the number shown in the Voltage box.

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What’s FLA (Full Load Amps) mean? That’s for the next blog.