This paper presents the experimental performance of an inverter-fed single-phase (1 phi) capacitor-run induction motor (IM) drive. The new 1 phi voltage-source four-pulse H-bridge wavelet-modulated (WM) inverter is employed to implement the proposed 1 phi motor drive. The WM inverter is operated by switching pulses generated by a unique nondyadic wavelet basis-functions-based multiresolution analysis (MRA). The synthesis part of this MRA has a scale-time structure such that the scale increase/decrease patterns are related to the sign of the first derivative of the reference-modulating signal. Adjusting zero-crossing locations of the first derivative of the reference-modulating signal can change scales of successive dilated and shifted versions of the synthesis scaling function. This approach of changing inverter switching pulses is called the resolution-level control (RLC) strategy, and can be used to adjust the motor input voltage. The proposed 1 phi motor drive incorporating an RLC WM inverter is successfully implemented in real time using a digital signal processor board ds1102 for a 1/2 hp, 1750 r/min capacitor-run IM. The efficacy of the proposed WM-based 1 phi IM drive is verified by both simulation and experimental results at various operating conditions. A performance comparison with a conventional proportional-integral controller is also provided to show the superiority of the proposed technique. Simulation and experimental test results of the proposed WM-based drive demonstrate robust performance, simple implementation, significant dynamic response improvements, and an ability to maintain high-quality inverter outputs.