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Chuck Yung EASA Senior Technical Support Specialist
When rewinding a motor, the service center often feels restricted to the original design. Sometimes, we encounter a motor design we wish had never been developed. The random-wound, 2300-volt motor design falls into that category. Most of us would prefer to see medium voltage (2300-4160 volt) machines built exclusively using form coils. The form coil winding (Figure 1) assures uniform volts/turn stresses and reliably seals the windings against hostile environments.
From the manufacturer’s perspective, a random-wound, 2300 volt motor represents a substantial reduction in manufacturing cost. For the service center, the challenge is to successfully rewind them while providing a reliable repair.
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With a steady increase in random wound AC motor sizes and the obvious superiority of the form coil winding, one area where we can help improve customers' motor reliability is by redesigning those large random wound motors to accept form coils. Most repairers would agree that machines rated larger than 600 hp (450 kW) should be designed as form coil machines. Likewise, those rated over 2 kV will be much more reliable as form coil machines.
No one wants to rewind a motor using 60 #14 AWG (62- 1.6 mm) wires in hand. With an abundance of niche suppliers of stator laminations, the cost and practicality of converting a random wound motor to form coil are available to nearly all service centers. Replacement laminations can be punched, laser-cut or water-cut, and supplied with very reasonable delivery times.
