Prevent Bearing Failures with RTD's
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Bearings keep their cool with RTD temperature sensors. If things start heating up, you’re the first to know. Check out this quick demo.
In a separate video, we reviewed the three factors that contribute to bearing longevity and achievement of L10 Life. We reviewed the greasing schedule and vibration monitoring, and now it’s time to talk temperature. Keeping it within normal range can help avoid bearing failure and keep you up and running. In this 1-minute video, Application Engineer Chet White covers how to use RTD temperature sensors to avoid running hot.
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What I’m holding here, is an RTD. So it’s a temperature sensor. There’s RTDs, there are thermocouples... So what we do with this, is we’ll drill and tap a spot in your bearing housing. And so frequently it’s drilled and tapped into a spot kind of like this and kind of like this, and then this RTD actually screws into that drilled and tapped port like this. Then you run a connection through this port back to your control room so you’re always reading what your bearing temperature is. That way you can set an alarm trip point to set-off if your bearing exceeds a certain temperature that maybe not normal for your application. Let’s say normal is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit, you can set your trip point at 180 degrees. Even though the greases - most greases - run up to about 225 degrees, if you signal yourself at about 180 degrees you know something’s going wrong because it’s not operating where it typically operates. These can save you a lot of heartaches.
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