Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Larry A. Bey, Cummins Onan Corp. You've lost normal power. Your engine-generator set (gen-set) starts up and reaches speed. Now, you want to start some large motors key to ...

Many applications involving hydraulics and hydraulically-driven machines have load requirements that fluctuate greatly. In some cases, the peak loads last for relatively short periods during the ...

Oversizing often happens when engineers try to match the inertia between the load and the motor rotor, so that they can tune the drive’s velocity, torque or position loop relatively tightly to meet ...

This article was updated Feb. 20, 2023. It was originally published March 2, 2011. Engineers are constantly called on to select motors for the applications that will be able to do the task at hand and ...

Abandon the “one-size-fits-all” approach in favor of balancing motor sizing, energy loss, and operational cost factors to find the most productive fit for your application.

The motor calculations presented here apply to changing conditions of a blower motor when pulley adjustments are made. However, these calculations are useful wherever electric motors are used. These ...