Slip Ring Motor Quick Check

Evaluation of actual motor conditions and recommendations for further services

Our quick check helps you to identify potential risks and ensures a high
How does it work
availability of your slip ring motor
1. Fill out the checklist

Your slip ring motor plays an important 2. Take pictures as

role in your industrial application and described in the
needs to run both safely and reliably – checklist
often for decades and under harsh
conditions. Wouldn’t it be good to 3. Send these
know, if it is still in a good condition? information to your
With our “Slip Ring Motor Quick Siemens Contact
Check” our experts will evaluate the person
actual condition of your slip ring motor
and will give further service 4. You receive a status
recommendations, based on the report with service
checklist. recommendations

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Failure mode on slip ring motors
Damages can be prevented if symptoms are recognized in time and causes are remedied

The condition of the carbon brushes, brush holders and slip ring of Damaged and burned slip ring
a slip ring motor provides information about the operating behavior
of the motor. At the same time this is an indicator of incipient
damage which, if ignored, can lead to the total failure of the motor.
This is usually associated with a high financial loss due to the total
failure of the entire system.
In brush holder stuck brushes

Common types of damage to slip ring motors:

• Burning on the slip ring Damaged brush and spliced brush leads
• Brush fire
• Increased or uneven brush wear
• Loosened tamping contacts of the brushes
• Broken brushes
• Discolored brush strands
Damaged and melted brush
• Damage to brush holders and pressure levers holder with damaged brush
• Jammed brushes

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We anticipate what your motors needs before you know they need it

Thanks to many years of experience as a manufacturer of slip ring motors, we have the necessary expertise and
can support you in recognizing faults in the running behavior of your drives at an early stage and in taking
suitable measures to prevent serious damage

No unplanned downtimes

Preventive and condition based maintenance

Increased lifetime of slip ring motor

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