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just a tish NE of central ND | JUNKY built? Tiny small Capacitors pushed in a cast iron box in foam and replacements are expensive and it look s like a childish design.. Probably got 5 weeks of usage out in 2 years of my low speed centrifugal fan and am thinking its got an internal short now already.The caps were bad but replacing didn't fix it either and ti smells and then kicks out the thermal overload. GRRRRrrrrrrrrrr
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NW central North Dakota | Had one go bad with very few hours also. But place where I bought it, replaced it. Have only had issues from the one year, the others have been ok so far. Only one out of eight total, however a neighbor had one go bad from same year as mine, within days. |
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just a tish NE of central ND | I only have the one, and it always seemed to me that it made an ANGRY HUMMMMM when in the starting mode until it got up to speed. .....
Made in BRAZIL
Edited by School Of Hard Knock 2/28/2016 07:50
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NW central North Dakota | I wasn't crazy about em either, in fact the free replacement sits in the building as a backup, I bought a new baldor for the current use. I didn't think mine sounded right to begin with either, musta been Monday motors huh?! |
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NW central North Dakota | I will say they aren't quite like a Baldor, fan seems cheaper, plastic that seems to be of poorer quality on the one that quit anyway. I thought they aren't as smooth in the bearings either, imho. But I haven't had any other trouble yet, an electrician friend told me the wegs weren't worth rebuilding, his words and he hadn't led me astray yet. |
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SE MN | Have had real good luck with the WEGs here. Have a lot of them on our bins and augers and no problems. The ones everybody around here has problems with are the new Baldors. Couldn't give me one of them, in fact the motor repair shop close to me quit selling them because of all the problems. I wonder if there are 2 grades of WEG because a friend of mine had 2 Baldors on his bin unload that didn't last the first year and his motor man replaced them with WEGs and they have been trouble free for 6 years now. |
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Day Co. SD |
My brother sells elec motors. He says the Leeson or AO Smith is the best bang for the buck currently. He won't recommend a Baldor anymore either. |
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Upstate Ny | I have a weg on a vacuum pump and another on a Quincy air compressor. Both are 2-4 yrs old no problems with either. Baldors are nothing like they used to be. Dayton's are 100% junk. I try to run older motors that were made to last. |
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| This winter we replaced the shielded bearings on just about all my motors (baldors) at my grain site with sealed bearings. Noticed that of the ones that felt rough they were all on the shafts side of the motor fwiw. |
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ND | Had a new WEG a 3 HP single phase go bad in one day & a new 7.5 HP Leeson go bad in a tandem load of dry corn. Quality is not job 1 anymore as investors make more from less quality jobbed out stuff. |
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Upstate Ny | Now that I think about it, electric motors made today are just like everything else.... Junk....... |
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Wisconsin | WEG I have heard both ways but never had one fail but don't have them on heavy use areas. Baldor we have had a few needing bearing on first start-up on new equipment. Marathon Premium we just installed a few years ago when switching to 3phase and very heavy duty run extremely cool.... Biggest thing with any electrical motor is not to over grease them of course and use a matching grease (same base). We have 2 3 phase 10 hp motors same frame size but due to concern about shaft size went with Baldor on one fan. Night and day heat difference on the two and cost for me was less on Marathon from local vendor. |
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