Ronnie Sullivan
Member
A strange one today.
I have an old machine to go to and it has 2 motors on the same common shaft.
The shaft, through gear box's turns squeeze rollers.
It was someones idea a long while ago to put 2 different speed motors on the same shaft to have a fast and slow mode.
But while one motor is running - it turns the other one via pulley's and belts.
I have to connect the star delta slow motor today.
The fast motor is a 5KW 1440 rpm and the slow is an 11KW 875? rpm.
Can this motor act as a small generator when the other is running?
I will insist the machine is stopped while I do it but all the same, I don't really know the answer.
Do you?
I have an old machine to go to and it has 2 motors on the same common shaft.
The shaft, through gear box's turns squeeze rollers.
It was someones idea a long while ago to put 2 different speed motors on the same shaft to have a fast and slow mode.
But while one motor is running - it turns the other one via pulley's and belts.
I have to connect the star delta slow motor today.
The fast motor is a 5KW 1440 rpm and the slow is an 11KW 875? rpm.
Can this motor act as a small generator when the other is running?
I will insist the machine is stopped while I do it but all the same, I don't really know the answer.
Do you?