BOLTR: Induction Motors EXPLAINED! | Power Factor and Failure Analysis

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[@yourtechstation]

The analogy my prof. gave for power factor was helpful. Pour a beer, the reactive power is the foam, real power is the actual liquid, and both together is the apparent power. And as for removing bearings, bar soap works well if you don't have grease or bread.

[@vriddle79]

I've worked around/with induction motors most of my life. This has been a great learning vid. Companies always just replaced these things at first sign of wear, and never cared if dragged them home. I never knew enough to bother stockpiling them, as I was told they are not rebuildable. ... Today is a new fooking day my friend.

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I remember me sitting in the electrical machinery course I - motors....he went on and on about motors...and i didn´t undersand a single thing...instead i went to a local used parts shop and got me a 100W induction motor and opened it and test the thing troughout...it helped me a lot about how these things works...about the same as you done here....experiments are fun. Thanx for this one :)

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The ladies they thought it was dead He said he could fix it with bread With a hammer and punch a creak and a crunch Now it runs like a crack head

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THIS DOES NOT MEET THE RHYME SCHEME OF THE LYMERIC AND THAT MAKES ME MAD.

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How about “Now it runs like it were painted red,” what to fit the rhyme scheme and all?

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Now it runs and they all went to bed..

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🖐️ I'm the guy you were talking about that rebuilds and rewinds electric motors for a living.

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can someone build a winding out of silver wire for more power?

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Post some instructions on brushless DC motors.

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New vs old motors ? I wind motors also, not many new ones as they go straight in the scrap bin

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[@mjodr]

You just removed a bearing with bread. I've seen you do some amazing shit, but this takes the cake. Hundreds of hours of watching your videos justified.

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I had to go out and do it as well! Priceless...

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DP= drip proof sometimes manufacturers use ODP open drip proof. You'll also see TEFC = totally enclosed fan cooled. There's also a jp frame which is similar to a c face, but intended for pumps with a longer shaft to make room for a bronze sleeve and a mech seal. Other than that man, you pretty much covered the basics.

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pushing that bearing out hydraulically using bread was new to me. Thanks for something useful.

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That's the second time in as many days I've seen that trick with the bread. Finnegan on the most recent episode of Roadkill did the same, but with a bar of soap.

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Do a full power factor video! I've searched everywhere but your explanation is the simplest!!

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[@davida1hiwaaynet]

Thanks for showing this video! I've saved and restored many old motors. The Baldor are pretty well made, in my opinion. Even their small cheapie ones like you show here seem to last quite a while. Here's an interesting motor you might like to see. It is made for a cotton gin, where there is a lot of flyings and lint in the air. Instead of keeping the lint OUT, they made the motor with all open, smooth air paths so that the lint will blow through it. The winding is encased in solid fiberglass resin so as to eliminate lint getting stuck in the end turns and creating problems. It almost looks like a wet-winding for a submersible motor, but not as thickly encased. This motor was made in the 1930's and was in a scrap pile. With one bearing replaced and one repacked - it is back in action. kzbin.info/www/bejne/naPNoKCqjtOthKM

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Weird, I just watched a vid where Finnegan [ Motor Trend 'Roadkill' ] used soap to drive out a bronze bushing on the end of a gearbox lay shaft stuck in the end of the crank!!

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Philip Rowney that wouldn't happen with dove!

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My mother's philosophy was 180 degrees from "I'll always protect you." Hers was "That hurt like hell, didn't it? Don't do that no more."

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I like the little Chickadee stickers.

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Using white bread as hydraulic fluid. My sides.

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BuffaloWarrior7 Wish I would’ve known that tip before when messing around with those motors.

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Play-Doh works wonders as well!

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Dude, I wish I had heard this one sooner. Awesome tip.

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Silly Putty works. ATF works. Crisco works. Flour probably works. Campbell's Chicken & Noodle soup works. Brute force always works... until it breaks....

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Thank you AVE! I've had one of these industrial 3 phase jobbies in my shed for years, and I've been too scared to lookup how to get it running. You just gave me a starting point to get into it.

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"It's always generally" one of my favorite expressions.

[@MichaelSteeves]

But you missed the discussion on using imaginary (aka complex) numbers used in calculating power factors! We need some complex differential equations to fully understand how these motors actually work! /s

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Michael Steeves No we don't. aVe will clobber us with another future vijeo illustrating how to avoid being electrocuted.

[@tubical71]

stop talking...my professor had scared the sh*t out of me when he uses all these maxwell stuff, for explaining motors...

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I always play these videos on my TV, my mom was here once and said she didn't know what you were talking about but you had her cracking up anyway.

[@MrMarkushasi]

Hey Mr. AvE, just a little note. When you calculated the apparent power you missed the square root of 3. So it's 480V*1A*square root of 3 = 831VA. Greetings from the standardised Germany :P

[@ThePsychoNad]

Actually 796 @ 460. Name plate states 460 not 480. Ifn you wantn to be splittn airs

[@MrMarkushasi]

Dan House :D I guess you are right. I stopped the video a couple of times to take a look at the name plate. Thought that a simple "the square root of 3 is missing" isn't that helpful.

[@tmaniac4]

Would that be because the windings are in delta configuration? (phase to phase rather than phase to ground such as wye?)

[@krustbag1039]

no its a wye motor, the formula he is talking about is P (Total Apparent Power)=I (Line) * V (Line) * 1.732 (root 3) (P=V*I*1.732) which is (for low voltage) 208*2.1*1.732=756.5376 VA to be more precise. the reason for root 3, is the line voltage (wye) or line current (delta) is root 3 higher than the phase value, and for phase power P=V*I, so you need to correct for the higher line value to find the total apparent power.

[@dasstackenblochen9250]

Tyler Dickson: In a wye (star, Y) configuration, the star (center) point is *not* connected to the grid (neutral/ground).

[@pinkninja123364]

Hey there Ave. Coming to you from ft Smith AR. Father has worked in that plant for 22 years now. Good video as always. Might add that they do balance and the housings are made in house. Only thing they don’t do to there motors is powder coat.

[@CaptainStuban]

7:07 Ahhh the mark of the all mighty Chickadee!!!

[@MichaelNatrin]

I just learned more from this video than from 4 years of electrical engineering education. Thank you.

[@gabbermaikel]

he instantly says dp, no idea what it means, but we all know he knows what it means.

[@daytonrd17]

bob rosco in the electric motor world DP stands for Drip Proof motor housing. This means the motor is resistance to water being dropped on it etc.. where as a TEFC motor is usually completely water tight and capable of being hosed without giving up the smoke..

[@DreitTheDarkDragon]

"we are using white bread as hydraulic fluid" That's why I'm subscribed, quality and original content!

[@microbuilder]

20:48 that made me wince just a bit...

[@microbuilder]

27:30 what are the odds...the guys on Motortrends Roadkill show just used that little technique except they used a bar of soap...

[@j-man72b72]

This method can bust the casting that supports the rear bearing, caution is the name of the game here.

[@krustbag1039]

just a bit? I was yelling at the screen like a damn fool.

[@eladsputnik2232]

The hammer is softer than the shaft so no mushroom. I learned that the hard way with a threaded shaft (pump impeller) and a steel hammer. A piece of wood works in pinch.

[@richardhunter9995]

It's not so much mushrooming the end, It's driving the shaft through the back cover. Don't ask how I know that.

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Over the last few vidjeos I could swear you time your videos with my Physics 2 class this semester. Keep it up!

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Sadly, the license expired.

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Get the student version

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I love watching your videos, and have for years now. But I will say this was one of your better videos in a while. Funny, clear, informative, and touched on a lot of points without getting to rambling (don't get me wrong, I enjoy your rambling more than most). But this one hit home about why I started watching your channel in the first place. We need more wrench ready kids in the world, and you are just the yoda they need to make wrenching seem fun enough to forgo a 100k student loan in underwater basket weaving and make money making things work. Keep it up.

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>published today >comments from a week ago Did I hit my head or something?

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No because I am a patron and none of these comments are on the patreon. Unless this is something to do with KZbin red or tv. I don’t know

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Maybe that big yellow box with all the wires sticking out is actually a "Way-back" machine.

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If Rick from 'Rick and Morty' was a real person, he would be AvE.

[@BobbySusenbach]

You mentioned the S.F. in relatiion to volts but for the viewers, SF is also related to the amps. You can use the S.F. when checking to see if a motor is over amped. I think you said FLA was 1.1A so multiply by S.F. (1.25) gives 1.375A is the max amps the motor can run. You would want to run the motor at something < than that value, jusr to be safe. Great video as always. Thank you for sharing!

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My megger has a hand crank.

[@sheabrown]

I live in Fort Smith and this is absolutely amazing that you have ended up with a Baldor motor. Small world.

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Whew! Dodged that one. I am only 29.

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27 here. Only 3 more years till I have to go fend for myself! I'm scared...

[@honsten]

That bearing removal trick is profoundly brilliant.

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Fun stickers on the back of your hand? Silly, but not distracting. Tiny piece of fluff on your right hand pinky while talking about the nameplate? TRIGGER WARNING

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Great bit of information. Also I work on the powerlines and would like to say I appreciate your accurate powerfoctor summary. Hard to do that.

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"Rule of Thumb" referring to spousal abuse is generally thought to be an urban legend started in the late 1700s in the US to be a slander against the British: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb

[@rockersg22]

Awesome, and great timing too. We're discussing power factor and are about to start 3 phase in one of my classes. I'm a mechanical enginerding student learning about those angry pixies.

[@Doomzdayisgone1969]

Pink Floyd momma will keep you here under her wing.

[@TheCalgarydoug]

As soon as you started I was reminded of when the auto transmission blew in the IH cab over I drove at one time. When they put it back together they put the trans on a dynamometer to see if it would chooch. They had two such machines, one with a 454 Chevy engine and the other with a mongo electric motor. I wondered out loud if the electric motor was up to the job and was told the 454 would barely turn the truck transmission but the electric job had more than enough. As a bonus I saw the difference before my eyes the difference between shifting on the torque curve and the power curve. I already knew in practice but it was cool to see it on the dyno.