Our high-speed, turbo-machinery balancers are elegantly simple in operation. Counterweighted rotor assemblies mount permanently at balance planes on the shaft. A smart controller senses vibration and determines the best counterweight position. Rotor assemblies move electro-magnetically to their appointed places, minimizing vibration in seconds.
Features & Benefits
- Balances-corrects multiple planes in seconds while your equipment is running
- Dramatically reduces equipment startup time
- Balances automatically or manually
- Reduces equipment wear and tear, downtime and maintenance costs
- Diagnoses equipment vibration response
- Makes different corrections above and below critical speeds
- Retrofits in coupling planes where field trim balancing often takes place
- Accesses vibration inputs from existing monitoring equipment, e.g. Bently Nevada
- Records all corrections automatically
- Protects bearings, seals and other components during ramp-up
The Controller
The EM-2000 controller automatically controls and tracks all balancer operation. It senses vibration, determines the optimum balance corrections, and sends signals to the balancer. The controller can also interface to the machine control using either PLC I/O or an RS232 serial port.
The Balancing Ring
The operation is elegantly simple. The patented counterweight rotor assemblies mount permanently to the spindle shaft or rear of the chuck. A coil assembly mounts to the spindle housing. When a balance correction is required, power pulses sent to the coils electromagnetically step the rotors to the desired position in just a few seconds.
Non-Contact Power Transfer
Since the coils induce a magnetic field across an air gap, contact is not needed between the rotating and stationary parts. Therefore, there are no traditional motors, gears, slip rings or other wear parts — it is virtually maintenance-free!
The Software
With our Control Interface for Windows™ software, you’ll have simple point-and-click control of the balancing system and manual control of the counterweight positions. This easy-to-use software provides detailed data and graphical displays that give you real-time information about your equipment and its vibration characteristics. You’ll have spindle speed, synchronous vibration magnitude, phase angle, counterweight positions, alarm and fault signals right on your desktop.