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Insulation test on winding
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Insulation test on winding

Insulation test on winding

(OP)
Is there any one could advise me how often to check the motor winding insulation ?

Tanks
Yamin

RE: Insulation test on winding

yamin:-
if the motor is sized correctly to the driven load and is not over loaded or stressed in any way ie:-under or over volts,balanced supply or contaminated(build up of dirt reducing cooling form)then most motor manufacturers would recommend a full electrical test each bearing change. however should one of the above conditions change then your own discretion would apply. for high voltage machines a p.i. test should be done at least once a year on the motor windings as you would do a yearly maintanence.this is ofcourse depending what maintanence schedual you have in place.
hope this will help.
kind regds.








RE: Insulation test on winding

Please, could you be more specific about the motor and industry standards adherence.

RE: Insulation test on winding

(OP)
Jbartos,
They are medium voltage motor 3.3kV and 400 Volts motor. Dusty enviromental, I think IEEE standard ???

RE: Insulation test on winding

yamin
  The 400 v motor If its tefc then don't bother unless it has a problem.If it is open frame then say anually on your normal maintenance routine from the contactor when supply is isolated. Modify the frequency if you have a history of insulation failure. (after you have looked a why the failures).
The 3.3kv as per teco's recommendation

Regards Don

RE: Insulation test on winding

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only you, the user knows! motor insulation design life is 30 years but :
how critical is the motor? are there backup/spares available incase of unexpected failure? for example: sump pump motors might get meggered once every 3 - 5 years whereas the exact same motor  used in a nuclear safety related application  or Navy warship might get meggered  twice a year.  What is most important I think is the TREND. So you establish a base line megger value of the new motor or new winding if after a rewind. A brand new winding should be meggered before installation. Then after one year or two (next outage) repeat the megger and continue at this pace until you start noticing a downward trend, you would want to SCHDULE a refurbishment. After all, the only reason to perform preventive maintenance such as megger testing is to prevent that operational failure which could cost jobs; scrap the motor; and always seems to happen right before a holiday!

RE: Insulation test on winding

motor man
 Yes I bow to your common sense statement. yes I was assuming those hack motors non critical etc etc I do megger our compressor motors etc every year because they are critical. One thing you did miss though -- the **** motors always go at 15 minutes to home time friday

regards Don

RE: Insulation test on winding

A star to motorman for his accurate and concise response. All that I may add is that the frequency of testing is usually increased once the downward trend is first noticed.  Also, a pat on the back to Don01 for his addition of the Friday afternoon timing for such failures....only someone that has been in maintenance will understand the fact that a motor will always fail at the worst possibe moment (Murphy's Law, Maintenance Section....).   

RE: Insulation test on winding

Suggestions:
1. Visit
http://www.ieee.org
for more info on the IEEE Standards
2. Search of 1. above may reveal IEEE Standards:
112-1996
252-1995
841-1994
1068-1996
1107-1996
1290-1996
Inquire carefully about their content.  It can be seen on the Web.

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