Any advice on hooking one up? More specifically, identifying the wires that are coming out of the motor. Remember, the motors are hook up and running now if that helps.
(These instructions use the markings on the Teco L510 VFD, other brands should be similar)
Mark and take pictures of all your wiring before you disconnect anything!
Since this appears to be a single voltage motor you most likely only have 3 wires (plus ground) coming out of the motor itself. These 3 wires will be connected
directly to the 3 terminals T1, T2 and T3 on the VFD,
there should not be switches of any kind between these terminals and the motor.
Your incoming power will get connected to L1 & L3 For a 120V Model L3 Is connected to the white wire (Neutral) and L1 is connected to the black wire (Line, Hot). For a 240V model L1 & L3 are connected to the two hot lines, it doesn't make any difference which way. You will also want a ground wire connecting the VFD and Motor to the incoming ground.
With just those connections you should be able to run the motor using the front panel of the VFD for testing. There are a few internal parameters that you will want to set to match your motor. There are a bunch more that you won't care about!
If the motor runs the wrong direction swap any two of the motor wires connected to T1, T2, T3.
Any switches used to control start, stop and direction will be connected to the low voltage inputs of the VFD (Common, S1 - S5). If you want to use an external speed control (potentiometer) that will connect to terminals 10V, AGI, AGND. There are lots of options for external control, you can probably use the existing controls if that is what you want. This will also require some programming of a few of the internal parameters.
There are some Youtube videos on the Teco L510 that you may find interesting.