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MCI has a customer who sells and refurbishes machinery. This time, they had a centre lathe that could not power up. We received an old KTK DC Thyristor drive and motor to test and repair from it. Our engineers set to work, and found lots of blown electronic components, Relays…
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MCI was recently asked by Bannatyne Filtration, a company that we have a close working relationship with, to investigate some failing extraction units at a local hospital. After an initial investigation, it was found that some of the motors had failed due to age and the weather. We supplied and…
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MCI received a heavy duty DC motor from a client which was badly damaged, as you can see from our photos. The armature had a large number of shorts due to a rub found on the commutator risers. All the commutator undercutting repairs were completed and all the shorts were…
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MCI received a call from a new client that was having problems with their production line that had an electrical fault. After doing some fault finding, our engineer saw that water ingress had caused a motor soft start to fail. Further investigation also revealed a damaged contactor. We sourced a…
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A DC Motor control board that had gone faulty and had tripped out the main supply. The fault was traced back to the Drive unit by one of MCI’s engineers. We sourced a replacement through our distributions department and installed it. As the new unit was factory set, our engineer…
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MCI recently refurbished motors for the rail industry. We made these old motors look and perform like new. We rewound them and gave them a new set of bearings. After a full test and a repaint, we’re done. Why throw away your old components when you can send them to…
