When a 132kW Siemens Simovert Masterdrive came through the door on an urgent repair, the customer told us that it had blown up and suffered liquid spillage. We carried out the basic checks and found out that the output modules had blown. With speed being of the essence we ordered up some new modules right
Last week we had an urgent repair for a Siemens Simoreg DC Drive arrive at our repair centre. The customer told us the drive had blown up. As soon as the drive arrived we carried out some checks and established that one of the thyristor modules was short circuiting. We knew that these thyristors could be
On Friday we received a request from a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry – a Siemens Sinamics power supply module had a fault and had put them on breakdown.
This week’s repair of the week was a WiesheuElektronik control unit for Havencare Management, a Funeral Directors based in Rawtenstall. These control units are used on each of the company’s Binz hearses to raise and lower a deck in the coffin compartment.
This week’s repair of the week is a 110kW Siemens Simovert inverter drive we repaired for a compressor service centre based in Derbyshire. A machine of this size is plant critical so time was of the essence. We knew the inverter was coming up F012 overcurrent on power up so we had our engineers stripping
Northern Industrial were recently contacted by international wall covering giant Graham and Brown when a servo drive of theirs had failed. The drive was installed on one of their lines and its failure had crippled production.
