{"id":4878,"date":"2019-02-11T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yellotec.co.za.dedi2118.jnb1.host-h.net\/know-your-motor-health-with-the-6-fault-zones\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:37:27","slug":"know-your-motor-health-with-the-6-fault-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/?p=4878","title":{"rendered":"Know your motor health with the 6 Fault Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yellotec.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Blog_PdMA_Feb19_FaultZoneOverview_Header.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6664\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yellotec.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Blog_PdMA_Feb19_FaultZoneOverview_6Zones.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6663\" style=\"width:254px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To confidently report the electrical condition of a motor, there are six areas of interest known as Fault Zones that must be looked at during the troubleshooting effort.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>These Fault Zones are Power Quality, Power Circuit, Stator, Insulation, Rotor, and Air Gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Power Quality:<\/strong><br>Quality of the voltage and current<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stator:<\/strong><br>Turn-to-turn insulation and internal coil connections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Air Gap:<\/strong><br>Quality of the air gap between the rotor and the stator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Insulation:<\/strong><br>Winding to ground insulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rotor:<\/strong><br>Health of the rotor cage and laminations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Power Circuit:<\/strong><br>Circuit supplying power to the motor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yellotec.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Blog_PdMA_Feb19_FaultZoneOverview_Whitepaper.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6665\" style=\"width:255px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This insightful white paper by PdMA&#8217;s David L. McKinnon will provide a brief introduction to a Six Fault Zone approach for predictive maintenance on motors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Using_a_Six_Fault_Zone_Approach_for_Predictive_Maintenance_on_Motors.pdf\">Download White Paper<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white paper from PdMA, the leader in Electric Motor Testing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-electric-motor-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yellotec.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}