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    1336 drive

    Hi guys, We have been running a 20 h.p motor at 90HZ through a 1336 plus drive trying to find the optimum speed for one of our processes,the motor tolerated this for about 36 hours and then quit, the motor was a severe duty motor and the motor amps were correctly entered into the drives...
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    Level / Temp switch

    Hi, I have a fairly old hydraulic unit and it has a combined level / temp switch screwed into the top of the reservoir by a 1 in plug but i can't find any details or makers name on this item its 10 in long with a float around the bottom of the shaft. There are also three red leads coming...
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    Reactors on output side of A-B 1336 Drives

    Hello all, We use a large number of A-B 1336 drives at our facility and we use line reactors on the output side of our drives but not the input,is this the industry standard as i would have thought that on the input side it would have made the drive less likely to have trouble from...
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    Grounding points in Allen Bradley Centerline cabinets

    Thanks test for your input, I will bring up the need for motor lead disconnection for high pot testing at our next electrical safety meeting. We still have to find a suitable means for grounding though whenever we have to replace one of these motors, we use splicing kits for the motor...
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    Grounding points in Allen Bradley Centerline cabinets

    Hello Test, Yes we do need to ground the leads from the load side of the starter before we can disconnect the actual motor leads,on this type of starter the motor leads are bolted to the output from the starter in the bottom left of the cabinet,so after we have proved that there is no...
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    Grounding points in Allen Bradley Centerline cabinets

    Hello all, I am having trouble finding a suitable method of applying grounding clamps to our centerline motor starters, we have a bank of 4160V 600H.P motors controlled by Allen Bradley Centerline starters 5000V 3PH 1200A 260A max. when we have our motors periodically hi pot tested, we...

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