Recent content by Dans250cortina

will do, thanks for the pointers, I got some homework to do tonight! it's driving a reasonably high inertial load (this was spec'd up by the engineers and an old identical motor ran for years in this application) the motor is a Baldor, whose a reasonably large manufacturer, I would assume (the...

sorry for the bad pics, ill take it back apart when I'm not on the clock :D closer look, it's the winding as well, burnt clean through where the winding meet the bar, it may be a tad more than 90 deg of separation but definitely not 180.

yep, comm face, I'll take a few pics and get back to you, thanks for the speedy reply

Hi everyone, just found these forums and had a look around, there's some great info here! I usually deal with the run-of-the-mill industrial three phase motors so this is not my strong suit so please bear with me here. I have a large DC motor here that was brand new but failed after about 2...