Got it! so the upper control circuit should be closed If not tripped. The lower circuit feeds the upper termanal block via wire jumper. If overload occurs the low melting alloy melts and spring pressure pushes the upper terminal plate, opening the contact and interrupts supply voltage to the coil. thus releasing the electro magnet and opening the lower contacts of the terminal block.
i checked the voltage between x2 and V. It only reads .2v. Between V and ground and W and ground i get 220v each, but nothing between V and W.
Not sure if this is relevant, but I am running a rotary phase converter, is it possible that the wild leg of the converter is causing an issue and should be applied specificlly? Right now this leg, which reads 219 volts passes directly to the drum switch, the other two legs, which read 121.8 volts each, connect to the drum switch, and to #2 on the terminal block.