drive motor 150 according to the present invention which acts a hybrid permanent split capacitor capacitor start single phase motor with more or less drive power being selected by a controller of head unit 102 the motor 150 includes two coils or windings 152 154 in the stator the common connection of the two windings 152 and 154 is connected to ground or a neutral reference voltage terminal capacitor 158 is permanently connected across terminals at the opposite ends of the two windings 152 154 a second capacitor 160 and parallel bleed resistor 162 are series connected with a relay 164 across first capacitor 158 line current is provided through a light relay 166 to a direction relay 168 which selectively passes line current directly to either side of capacitor 158 and one of windings 152 154 in this embodiment providing line current to winding 152 drives the garage door operator in the up direction down relay 170 passes line current to the motor at winding 154 only when the motor is driving the garage door down to close it when the garage door operator is activated to drive the door down e g by pressing a button on a remote the control circuit closes light relay 166 direction relay 168 remains in the position shown of fig2 down relay 170 is closed and higher power relay.