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I have a single phase 230V motor from an old concrete mixer. There's one of each black, white, red & green wires coming from inside. How is this connected please?
 
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Don't know how accurate your tests are but from your readings red to black is your main winding and green to white is the aux winding. It really needs testing correctly to ensure the windings are sound and a terminal box fitted.
 
The two R readings were accurate, the meg readings were rising while testing, from 2 Megs up to appx. 3 Megs. I've added a pic of the terminal connector....I don't trust it and was hoping for confirmation first.
 

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Looking at the state of that it does want insulation testing as it looks like it could have had water ingress/moisture, also looks like you're missing the capacitor and TBH a small motor that size you may be looking about ÂŁ80 brand new so is all your time and effort worth it?
 
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Hi Brian, thanks for replying

Ok....Red to Green = 3Megs
Red to Black = 16R
Red to White = 3Megs

Green to Black= 3Megs
Green to white= 25R

Black to White= 3Megs

Any ideas?
The red - black are the connections too the main motor winding, and would connect to the mains.
To make a motor start rotating, it needs more than one phase, so a capacitor (to create a phase shift) is connected in series with a second winding (green - white).
Depending on the design of the motor, this second winding is often disconnected from circuit after the motor has got up to speed, by a switch operated by centrifugal weights on the motor shaft.
 
From your tests:
Line to Red and Green
Neutral to Black and White
If rotation is in wrong direction, swap green and white.

a capacitor (to create a phase shift) is connected in series with a second winding (green - white).

As the OP measured a winding resistance between green and white, there cannot be a capacitor in series. So it is more likely a traditional split-phase motor with centrifugal switch.
 

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