This is a LinkedIn success story where a referral enabled us to help a new customer. We were tagged into a post after a LinkedIn member posted a picture and a simple request for a motor repair. We replied to the post, along with many others initially offering help, we saw many recommendations for several companies which are where LinkedIn …
Recently, there was a great deal of interest in an article I wrote about the resurrection of a DC motor. This reminded me of a much more interesting recovery and refurbishment of a DC motor. Let me start with a bit of history In the 19th century a French engineer and eccentric, Thomé de Gamond spent nearly 40 years and …
A few week ago I posted a photo of a failed DC motor where the commutator has failed and taken out the brush gear. The failure was quite spectacular and the photo prompted many, many comments. I promised to post an ‘after’ photo when the repair had been completed but instead of just a photo, here’s a brief article about …
On first viewing you can see the rotor lamination pack on the left-hand side, then the cage extended to a length greater than the lamination pack, there are air agitation fins on the extended cage and what looks to be another alloy cladding the extended cage. I’ve had 35 years in and around the motor repair business and this was …
Well, it seems I’ve generated a great deal of interest with my post regarding an accidental over speed of a DC motor we had repaired. Just last week, I posted a photo of a DC motor armature after it had been accidentally overspend, after we had rewound it. Here’s the original post A great learning experience I posted it to …
“One of the most important quality assurance tools in the motor rewinding trade is the core loss tester Websites and promotional material from electric motor rewind companies from around the world tend to push one message “Quality Electric Motor Rewinds”, after all, nobody is going to admit to being sub-standard in a competitive industry. But what amazes me, is how …
How over £500,000 was saved when an already obsolete unit became……more obsolete! Obsolescence is an issue in industries there’s no getting away from it, however, there are many ways to tackle it. One of the things I see all too often is the willingness to strip out systems where there’s another, usually more cost effective solution. There are many great …
As happens most Saturday mornings at Fletcher Moorland, the phone starts to ring and there’s a customer on the line with an urgent breakdown which needs sorting. Most calls at the weekend will be calmly and professionally handled by Jennie, who then puts the wheels into motion to make sure we do all that we can to get our customers …
Usually, when you price up permanent online condition monitoring solutions the price is usually in the thousands of pounds, putting it out of reach of many businesses, Fletcher Moorland have developed a solution not in the thousands of pounds but in the hundreds! The image above shows the equipment we are using in our next installation. We are installing this …
A 3 phase electric motor has 3 coils. These coils can be configured or connected either end to end (as a triangle) in Delta configuration or with 3 ends together as a Star. Why use 2 types of coil windings? If a stationary electric motor were started directly in Delta mode the current drawn would be very high. To handle this …