Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. ChiMike

    Slip ring problems on Toshiba 6500kW WRIM

    I have photos of the brush holders, but they're on a different computer. Will upload them tomorrow. Geometry of the brushes & holders has been verified correct. Mass-loss of the brushes is also monitored closely and plotted over time with no outrageous degredation of the brushes. Spring...
  2. ChiMike

    Slip ring problems on Toshiba 6500kW WRIM

    One of my clients has experienced failures on a Toshiba 6500kW, 11kV WRIM where a phase-to-phase arc destroys the slip rings during start-up. After the 1st failure, the mfg suggested that poor housekeeping (carbon dust build-up) and excessive start events contributed to the failure...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top