AC Motor Direction Change Question.

With the AC motor with a single field winding (most common), you just reverse the two brush leads to reverse the motor direction.

With the AC Motor with a dual-field winding, you change which field winding is connected to one of the brushes.

In either case, the field coil is frame ground, the other lead of the field coil goes to one motor brush, and the hot side of the power goes to the other brush.

Yes, these are also called "Universal motors", and will run on DC the same as AC.  To reverse direction, you still swap the brush leads, swapping the power to the whole brush/field wiring would not reverse the motor.

One lead of the coil is grounded, the other lead goes to a brush, the 3rd. rail wire goes to the other brush. to reverse, just change the 2 brush wires. AC motor is much smoother running on DC.  Harry 

A DC motor has a permanent magnetic field created by a magnet, and is reversed by reversing the polarity going to the brushes. An AC motor has windings in place of that magnet, and is reversed by keeping the polarity of the brushes (or field) the same while reversing the polarity of the other. So when an AC motor is reversed one input remains the same while the other is reversed, allowing it to swap directions because the brushes and field are now in opposite phases.

Yes, an AC motor works on DC just fine, however reversing the polarity won't reverse the motor.

To get AC motor direction change with DC polarity, there is an often used simple circuit using a bridge rectifier.

@BOB WALKER posted:

To get AC motor direction change with DC polarity, there is an often used simple circuit using a bridge rectifier.

Yes, just power the field or the armature with the DC outputs from a full wave bridge rectifier, which has its AC leads wired in series with the other(armature or field).

Thank you everyone,

Norman