Air Conditioning - Fan motor wiring

Okay, here goes.....the wires attached to my fan motor outside were apparently put in haphazardly.....today the wires fell and caused the blades to stop which burned up the motor. We found another motor which came with a new capacitor. Problem....the old motor had 3 wires: black, brown, and purple. Brown and Purple are attached to capacitor along with an orange and yellow from elsewhere. New motor has black, white, brown and brown & white. The 2 brown are attached to capacitor. Question: which wires to which.....and should I install the new(used) capacitor which is half the size (does size matter??? :p )....my old one isn't very old. I hope this is clear....I'd appreciate any help......is hot here in FL and my daughters have friends over.......Thanks

Dawn

Take and trace the original brown wire that went from the fan motor to the capacitor and pull it out. Throw it down and forget it. The two brown wires that came with the new fan motor get hooked up to the new capacitor and thats all, nothing else gets hooked to it. Strap the new capacitor in so that it's secured and not going to short out against any other metal. Tie the new motors yellow wire to the old purple wire, and tie the new motors black wire to the original black wire. Of course the power is off during all of this. Make sure the new wiring is secure and strapped out of the way of the fan blade - or repeat what already happened to you. When the unit is put back together, turn the power on and manually push the contactor in by hand to make the unit come on for a moment and check the rotation of the fan blade. It should be pushing the air up and out of the unit, if not there might be a pigtail connection on the new motor that allows you to unplug it and rotate it 180 degrees. This will change the rotation. The final step is to put an ampmeter around one of the motor leads and check the amperage, which you probably don't have. In which case, if the motor runs for more than 40 minutes you might be ok. If the fan blade is bent in any way and causes a vibration the you need to change the fan blade with a new one, or risk an early demise of the new motor. Please be careful,

Like said make sure it blows the same way up and that the RPM is the same.

ED ;)