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I've been serving this waterpark for a couple of years now, providing
underground leak locating services (Figure 2).
Out of the eight pumps and motors of the waterpark's filtration system,
five 60 hp motors and three 50 hp motors were coupled by a flex coupling
to a pump.
Fast forward a few months. All eight of the filtration motor and pumps
were removed, the old motor stands replaced and the flex couplings
(motor/pump) replaced with a direct drive setup. Still wanting to engage
the waterpark in the idea of trending its pumps, I called once more and
proposed taking readings and preparing a database for future readings.
This time I was joined by Adrian Messer, Manager of U.S. Operations for
UE Systems, Inc. (Figure 3).
With the UE Systems' Ultraprobe 15000 Touch instrument set for dual
display of fast fourier transform (FFT) and the time waveform chosen
(Figure 4a, top), we watched and listened. What we saw clearly was
significant harmonics. Was it harmonics from the inner, outer, cage, ball
pass frequencies? We didn't know right away. Changing the display to
just FFT (Figure 4b, bottom), we noticed a cursor highlighting a fault
frequency of 175.8.