Pete's Motor Page

I have included links to web-sites that have a lot of technical information on motor maintenance, monitoring etc.  Bulleted/indented links listed below each website point more directly to the technical information.

Bureau of Reclamation Electrical Maintenance Documents (scroll down for list of on-line documents)::

• TESTING SOLID INSULATION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
• KEEPING MOTOR WINDINGS DRY
• PERMISSIBLE LOADING OF GENERATORS AND LARGE MOTORS
• FIELD BALANCING LARGE ROTATING MACHINERY (also available in pdf from the main page)
• LUBRICATION OF POWERPLANT EQUIPMENT
• ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS FOR POWER CIRCUITS

Reliance Electric (Motor Manufacturer)

•    Technical Reference Homepage
•    Motor Maintenance and Troubleshooting
•    White Papers

Leeson Electric (Motor Manufacturer)

• Technical Documents (motor maintenance and troubleshooting)

Siemens (Motor Manufacturer)

• Analytical Approach to Motor Vibration Problems
• Troubleshooting Electric Motors
• Rotor Bar Construction considerations

NEMA

• Links to NEMA Member Companies

Plant Resource Maintenance Center Article Search  
   *  Enter "motor" in the search box
   *  Press "search" button
   *  View links to on-line articles.

PDMA Corp (makers of Motor Circuit Evaluation equipment)

CSI White Papers on motor/vib monitoring technologies (includes flux monitoring)

IRIS Power Engineering

• Technical Papers on Partial-Discharge Analaysis

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

• Generator and Large Motor Info
    * Seminars (top of the page)
    * Companies (middle of the page)
    * Technical Papers (bottom of the page) 

IEEE

• List of IEEE Standards related to motors and electric machinery

GE's On-Line Textbook "The Art and Science of Protective Relaying" with link to Chapter 10 on Motor &Generator Protection

SEL Technical Papers

• Induction Motors: Part I - Analysis
• Induction Motors: Part II - Protection
• Aspects of Overcurrent Protection for Feeders and Motors

Adwell

• Go to "Technical Papers" and "Case Studies"

DOE's Motor Challenge Program Information

• Includes technical papers on voltage unbalance and efficiency
• Includes freee software for optimizing system efficiency (database of motor performance data and pricing info).

Electrical Apparatus Magazine (good magazine but not much on-line info)

Joliet Motor

• EASA Motor Handbook On-line
• Tech Notes

Cutler Hammer Partial Discharge Info

Motor Repair and Repair Specs

DOE Best Practices

Northwest Indiana Business Roundtable

Canadian vibration specs

On-Line Forums that Include Discussion of Motors and Vibration

Alt.engineering.electrical (all messages)

• Motor Messages only

Misc.industry.utilities.electric (all messages)

• motor messages only

MotorControl.Com on-line forum

Reliability Magazine (good forum on vibration analysis, alighment, balancing)

Vibration Institute  - Discussion Zone

SKF Bearing Monitoring Bulletin Board

Eng-Tips Forums

• Eng-Tips - Motors
• Eng-Tips - Mechanical Eng - Vibration
• Eng-Tips - Electrical Eng - Vibration

Lubrication Message Boards

Vibration

Entek/IRD/Rockwell - Vibration Analysis Papers

Efftek CO - Follow the links to their download section!
    * Very-detailed vibration diagnostic chart (power point format)
    * Bearing fault frequency database
    * Cross-reference table - motor type to manufacturer's bearing type.

Vibrotek  - Articles.

Reliability-Direct - App Notes on vibration etc

Canadian Machinery Vibration Association - Guidelines for Vib Limits on new/rebuilt motors

F.A.G. Bearing Articles

NTN (Bearing Manufacturer)

• Engineering Documents
• General Bearing Info

Bently Nevada - On-Line Archives of Orbit Magazine

Vibrate.net - a lot more links

Stevens

On-Line DSP Textbook

Miscellaneous

DOE Search (ES&H search gives lots of handbooks on fundamentals, etc)

Dialpad.com - Use your computer to make free long distance calls from your computer to anyone in the USA (all they need is a phone).  I'm not a salesman and I don't get anything for linking to this page... I just think it's a good deal.

Comments? Broken links? New links?  Email me at [email protected]