Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet
Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals
-
Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
Generator Collector Ring arcing and pitting problem II
Turbine was down for cleaning and tested with Megger @250V resistance was 80 Megaohms just prior to this event,rotor(field)was refurbished by GE 2 yrs ago. As I'm writing this new springs were installed and there was slight sparking on one of the brushes but after a day of running it stopped...- Mbski
- Post #3
- Forum: Electric motors & generators engineering
-
Generator Collector Ring arcing and pitting problem II
thread237-287242 There was a thread back in 2010 posted by electrageek under same title and ended abruptly without conclusion. I'm watch electrician in power generating facility and have a similar problem. One of the collector rings developed rough surface ab 1x2.5" and is arcing now. Does...- Mbski
- Thread
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Electric motors & generators engineering
