Keep it simple stupid – online condition monitoring ‘Keep It Simple Stupid’.The KISS philosophy is something that I think we should all do more of, my aging brain certainly thinks it’s the best way to go for sure.It’s an approach that I feel should be brought into online condition monitoring for machinery. Take a look at this example, it doesn’t …
Should I Use A Mulitmeter To Test My Electric Motor? ASK FOR EXPERT HELPCALL FLETCHER MOORLANDOk you might think, however that’s where the problem is, they tested a motor of 200kW with a multimeter. We realise that there are many of you probably reading this realising the problem straight away, however these things happen and we’d like to educate those …
These holes are meant to be here though. This feature in an electric motor winding is unusual but not uncommon. They are there to serve a purpose. This type of motor is used in electric vehicle propulsion. It is the guts of a BAE Systems Hybridrive TB08 electric traction motor. All electric motors need to be cooled and most standard …
Meerkat Online Condition Monitoring Turns 5! (Feb 2022) It all began in early 2017 with a customer who had a critical piece of equipment in a location that was not too easily accessible. It was their main pump on a floating pontoon at a quarry. If the pump fails, the feed to the processing plant stops. They wanted a way …
How Much Work Goes Into An Armature Rewind? “I never knew how much work was involved!” That was a comment made by a visitor to our workshops earlier this week when we stopped by this DC electric motor armature being rewound. Many people make the assumption that the rewind is done by machines. Whilst this is usually true when it’s …
Estimates suggest that globally, around 60 million tonnes of waste electronic equipment are thrown away every year. As we fight the effects of global warming, growing pressure from consumers and environmental groups means this level of disposal is unacceptable. With this in mind, Matt Fletcher, Managing Director at Fletcher Moorland, dispels some myths surrounding the practice of repairing printed circuit …
Three times this was picked up on recently and all from visitors to our workshops. I have no idea what people expect when they visit a workshop, I should say that these people were buyers and not engineers. Maybe engineering still holds onto it’s wrongly-perceived image of ‘being dirty’ but engineering isn’t always about dirty shitty environments. Ok, sometimes we …
Repair Or Replace Your Electric Motor, That Is The Question! Matt Fletcher, MD of Fletcher Moorlands opinion! While I’m not sure who first raised the question. I do know that around the world, this question is asked every day. And the answer? Well, the answer you will get depends on who you ask. And, If you’re the one responsible for …
It’s more by accident rather than by design that my recent posts have featured technology and processes that are environmentally friendly. This one, as it so happens, is the same. We’re all I expect very used to traditional electric motors in my posts, but here’s one that is a little different. If you’ve not seen one of these before, it …
Brush Inspection & Maintenance There is a type of AC motor in industry that you may have hidden away in your process plant that has brushes in too. These are known as slip-ring motors. They are often referred to as wound-rotor motors too. That description probably explains more of the construction of the motor then slip-ring does actually.CONTACT US TODAYInstead …
What do you see…a pile of scrap PCBs, or an opportunity to refurbish and reuse? If you see an opportunity to refurbish and reuse, great, you need not read any further. If you see these as scrap PCBs destined for landfill, then this is an opportunity for education. PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) are in all electronic equipment the World over. …
Is electric motor rewinding good for the environment? Matt Fletcher, Managing Director of Fletcher Moorland, explains how the motor repair sector is supporting the drive towards protecting natural resources and the environment. It’s a pretty simple scenario; let’s say you have a 160kW motor that’s failed. You are either going to send it for repair or replace it. Does the …