I bought a shop fan years ago that came with a nonworking motor. I took the motor to have it checked. The shop added a missing capacitor start and lubed it. They also ran the motor while I was there. Once I got home with it I put it aside and never got around to installing the motor until now, 15 years later. The motor never had an electrical cord so I am attempting to wire one in but I am seeing only 2 wires on the motor, a black and white. I would think there should be 3 wires, 2 120v legs and 1 ground. Am I missing something here? The only numbering on the motor is 30961.

Before I begin, I do have some electrical experience, but not a ton, I just want to double check that I am not doing something wrong when replacing a light fixture. I think I bought a defective light as after a couple minutes the light began to smell like plastic burning. I disconnected it and found that the bulb had melted the foil sticker that is on the aluminum foil sheet attached to the insulation on the light. I used a 40w bulb, the max for the light was 60w This is how the old light was connected, never had any issues with it, 3 wires were entering the box. All 3 black wires entering the box were merretted together. One red wire entering the box was connected to the black wire from the light All white wires entering the box were merretted together along with the white from the light. All 3 grounds were merretted together along with ground from light. I disconnected the old light, installed the new one attaching the black from the light to the existing red wire, attached the white from the light to all 3 existing whites, and merretted the ground with the other grounds. I left the 3 black wires that were merretted together alone. Safe to say I returned the "defective" light and bought a new one. Can anyone advise if I was screwing something up.