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Cool facts about cooling electric motors

Whether old or new design, lowering temperatures based on same principles

  • July 2011
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Chuck Yung
EASA Senior Technical Support Specialist

I’ve often commented on how for­tunate we are to work on such a variety of electric motor designs. One day, you are working on a new design some designer has recently created, and the next day you are repairing a motor that could be in a museum. It’s fascinating to see the different ways engineers have devised to do the same thing, and yet reassuring to see how many things remain unchanged even after a century of electric motors. 

One aspect of electric motors that could be placed in both categories is the way an electric motor is cooled. This article takes a look at how motors are cooled and how we can improve cool­ing for some of the special applications we encounter.

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