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Month: December 2017

Three phase motors, power supplies, and rotation direction

Three phase motors are used in many industrial applications. They are simple in design and have a high starting torque. Compared to single phase motors of similar power rating, they are also compact and long lasting. However, Connecting a three phase motor to its power supply is not trivial. In the field, heaters and boilers … Read more

Categories Advice, How-To Tags electrical, heaters, motors, safety

Motor running backwards? Be careful

What if you start up your heater and you see this happening: The fuel pump is sucking fuel from the line, instead of pumping it from the tank. You smell smoke or see smoke going into the burner housing (the sign that the burner is drawing combustion air out of the stack and into the … Read more

Categories Advice, How-To Tags electrical, heaters, motors, safety

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