Found in a 1966 General Electric manual, this circuit provides a delay in starting. The motor is of the universal type and the triac according to its current.
This circuit is from a documentation on the MC1539 from Motorola and may, however, be implemented...
The TDA2040 is not a common IC these days, but if you find one you can build this high quality...
In the figure we have the way to use a 4017 as a sequencer controlled by a microcontroller. With...