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You have an electric motor designed to run on alternating current, but it does not run. What can you do yourself? This Instructable concerns a triage procedure for getting your capacitor start motor running again in a series of easy and logical steps.

I am assuming you have a single phase 1/4 or 1/2 horsepower motor, even possibly up to 1 horsepower. It may have one capacitor, but there may also be two. The motor's design may be capacitor start, or capacitor run. These types of motors are what you will find in most home and workshop applications. Special purpose industrial motors (DC, three phase) will have some differences and I still know nothing about them.