Product Knowledge

Agitator drives fail on starting torque and thrust load, not on kilowatts. How to calculate impeller power, convert it to shaft torque, and where a gear motor stops being the right drive.

The 30-minute rating on a reversible gear motor is a thermal statement, not a timer. What it limits, how to read your duty cycle against it, and how to run longer without buying the wrong motor.

How a speed controller actually slows an AC gear motor, why torque falls to about a third at the bottom of the range, how to wire it, and when a VFD or a different gear ratio is the better answer.

Five steps from a machine to a torque number: converting load to force, force to shaft torque, correcting for gearbox efficiency, applying a service factor, and checking the result against the allowable load table.

A practical guide to the electrical side of a three-phase gear motor: 220 V and 380 V winding connections, terminal box links, starting current, overload relay settings and where phase type limits the frame you can order.

Right-angle vs inline gear motor compared with real allowable load tables: efficiency, torque, the self-locking myth and how to decide in five steps.