Megging a motor through MCC has any restriction?
Megging a motor through MCC has any restriction?
(OP)
Usually maintenance execute IR test and megging directly from motor cable box, but as an effort to save time testing it and also to cover the entire system (motor+cables) my fellow engineers are sugesting changing this procedure, making this tests throught MCC terminals.
Does it have any restriction? The test results are going to be as accurate as direct in motor cable box?
Does it have any restriction? The test results are going to be as accurate as direct in motor cable box?





RE: Megging a motor through MCC has any restriction?
RE: Megging a motor through MCC has any restriction?
CR
"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." [Proverbs 27:17, NIV]
RE: Megging a motor through MCC has any restriction?
That said, it has value.
If your reading is good, then the motor, any part of the starter still in the circuit and the feeders are all good.
If the reading is bad, then you have to test further to determine whether the failing resistance is in the motor or external to the motor.
This test has the advantage that tests may be completed so quickly and conveniently that it lends itself to much more frequent testing than a test of the motor only with the motor disconnected.
I would support this testing method.
Bill
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Jimmy Carter
RE: Megging a motor through MCC has any restriction?