I brought my lathe in January this year and I have had a good time with it, but now it's dead.

The modell name is: JC0618A
What was happening? I don't know, I took some turn on the lathe, and then stop, then I should take some more turns, and nothing happend.

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I took some help from my son i law, he is working as a reparatur and installer for plasma and laser cutting machines, so I thought that he could help me. We found out that the potentiometer was broken so I order one from
http://littlemachineshop.com/.
Today I'll got the item, mount it and bang, it was an short circuit

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The only wiring diagram I found (I can't find any one) was this:

And this don't say anything, it's not helpfull. What to do ???