This may sound a little off the wall but, isn't there a way to determine the coils within a rewound motor by using an ohmmeter? It seemed to me we went over this in one of our classes I took some years back. In other words, you could measure the ohm readings between the motor leads and tell...
Our safety team here at our facility is hell bent on removing all of our desk type fans because the plugs aren't grounded. Where they are made of plastic, most of our department feel this is over the top as far as safety goes.Most of them are probably double insulated anyway. Is there any...
Hello all. Where I work, we have a small single package yarn dyeing machine that has a 25mm Burgmann mechanical seal that is mounted directly on the motor shaft. I'm pretty sure it is a standard carbon stationary/carbide rotator setup. The elastomer appears to be viton. The problem is that after...
Hello all. This may sound a little off the wall but, would it be practical to use existing steam from a production boiler to heat a small tank of hot water. In other words replace an electric one with a steam heated one? What it is, our plant is doing an electricity reduction project and this...
Hello all. I am hoping someone here can answer a question that would seem a no-brainer to me but, not being an electrical expert, I thought I'd pose it here. What it is, the facility where I work is on a electricity usage reduction program and are looking for anyway to cut back. One thing that...
Hello all. This is my first post so bear with me. Recently I have been promoted to a lead person job and fill in when my Supervisor is out. This past week one of the shop personnel went out to install a newly rewound motor and could not get it to work right. He said it sounded like it was...
