It’s shutdown week, and your electrical maintenance contractor just provided a spreadsheet with the results of their Megger testing on your facility’s critical motors. You’ve only loaded a few of the readings into your EAM when you get a...
Read moreTroubleshooting series: Total harmonic distortion
You recently installed some variable frequency drives at the pump station to save energy by better matching your motor’s load profile to its application. You also decided to use these VFDs as power monitors, enabling you to record several new...
Read moreTroubleshooting series: Sags, swells, & voltage deviations
You’re sitting in a meeting, looking back and forth between your notebook and the current speaker. Wait a minute — did the lights just flicker? You look at the lights intently. A few seconds later, they do it again — definitely a flicker. Then...
Read moreTroubleshooting series: High ambient temperature
It’s the first week of August, and the middle of a heat wave. You — and your equipment — are feeling the heat. Then, at 2:55 pm your phone dings with a new notification: “Motors@Work detects Lift Station #24 Pump 1 at 103°F, nearing max ambient...
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