Motor Testing
Location, Location, Location
When performing a Power Test, there are many parameters to consider. With proper loading, current imbalance is an ideal leading indicator...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Electric Motor Reliability
In this podcast you’ll learn what it takes to get started in electric motor reliability, common faults, and the biggest impact…
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Evaluation of Wound Rotor Motor with Electrical Signature Analysis
The primary difference between an induction motor and a wound rotor motor is that the rotor has windings, slip rings and a variable resistance in order to vary speed or soft start an application...
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
Power Circuit: What and Why?
The power circuit provides the avenue or path that allows your supply voltage to reach the motor. The power circuit comprises all the cabling, connectors, switches...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Predictive Maintenance Team Saves Steel Mill Time and Money with Thorough Motor Testing
The steel mill’s in-house predictive maintenance team inspects the overhead cranes on a quarterly basis. When the predictive maintenance team was alerted...
- Richard Scott
- ALL-TEST PRO
Power Quality: What and Why?
Voltage quality can be degraded in several ways. You can have high or low voltage in reference to the motor nameplate, including transient spikes of voltage...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Improve Electro-Mechanical Reliability Using Electrical Signature Analysis
Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) is a predictive maintenance (PdM) technology that uses the motor’s supply voltage and operating current…
- Richard Scott
- ALL-TEST PRO
Hybrid Analytics: The Value of Machine and Human Supervision
Big Data is a power to be harnessed. For the nearly three decades since the concept of Big Data entered the public consciousness, researchers, programmers and data scientists have struggled with the best way to leverage the information and take full advantage of it...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Machine Train: Pumps and Fans
Continuing the focus on the machine train analysis tools of the Emax Current Demodulation technology, we will discuss pumps and fans.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation