An attendee at a recent webinar asked EST-AEGIS about electrical bearing damage by harmonic currents created by VFDs. Bearing currents…
Part 1: The Cause Three-phase electric motors are frequently regulated using variable frequency drives (VFDs). Drives allow precise control and sometimes…
So far, Aegis has covered clamp-on and conductive epoxy mounting for external installation and bolt-through and press-fit mounting for installing…
The Baldor-Reliance® Food Safe Motors now come standard with AEGIS® Shaft Grounding Rings. The addition of the internal shaft grounding…
In Part 1 of this series on selecting an AEGIS Shaft Grounding Ring, AEGIS discussed solid vs. split ring design,…
AEGIS is proud to offer Shaft Grounding Rings to fit almost any possible inverter-fed motor system. But the downside of…
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This article is mainly about electrical bearing damage, there are plenty of other sources of damage and failure modes for…
Previously, Aegis discussed Volume 3 of the 2021 MSMA report on potential savings through improved efficiency. Let's expand on how…
AEGIS recently received an email from an engineering consultant. He had specified a project that requires AEGIS Shaft Grounding Rings…
A couple of months ago, Aegis published a Q&A post including an account of electrically damaged insulated bearings. Aegis got…