Coppertown Electric Motor Controls
Motor Controls and Machinery Power
Motor control centers and electric panels are the heart of most commercial and manufacturing facilities. If any of your manufacturing systems need service, call now.
Basically, motor controls are for anything that we can get a motor on such as:
- Manufacturing machinery
- Industrial lighting control systems
- Processing / chemical control systems
- Heating and cooling systems
- Motion controls
- Soft start motors
- Dust collection interlocks
- Panel boards
- Backup generators
- Generator transfer switches
- Installation of Electrical Distribution Equipment
- Preventative Maintenance
- Calibration
- Troubleshooting
- Repair
- Field Wiring
New CNC Machines? We can help install power.
Coppertown Electric can install power to any and every CNC machine made worldwide in your facility, not exclusive to CNC machines. Give us a call for a FREE ESTIMATE, for any new machinery that needs to be safely installed in an industrial manufacturing environment.
Fuses
Fuses are ideal for protection against short circuits. They consist of a conducting element enclosed in a glass, ceramic or other non-conductive tubing and are connected by ferrules at (each of) the ends of the tube. The ferrules fit into the the ends to complete a split in a circuit. Excess current flowing through the fuse melts the device’s conducting element and interrupts current flow. Fuses are simplest form of overcurrent protective devices but can be used only once before they must be replaced.
When troubleshooting motor controls there are several quick to tests performed to assess the problem. The first things to check include:
- Blown Fuses
- Open Fuses
Circuit Breakers
Circuit breakers usually protect conductors in systems. An advantage is that tripped circuit breakers can be reset after the fault is cleared, whereas fuses must be replaced. A molded case circuit breaker, or MCB, has two distinct operating components.
- Thermal Tip Component – bimetal strip that carries the current.
- Magnetic Tip Component – generates a magnetic field created when an electric current passes through its coil.
With thermal tip component circuit breakers when the current exceeds a certain limit, heat produced by the excess current causes the strip to bend and break the contact interrupting the current.
With magnetic tip component when the flow exceeds certain levels, the magnetic force is enough to move an armature held back by a spring to switch the trip mechanism. This locks the circuit contacts in the open position.