Your gearbox can make or break your overall cooling tower performance. This is why it is important to complete the necessary gearbox maintenance. Find out if you could you be setting your gearbox up for failure without even knowing.
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Is Your Cooling Tower Gearbox Set For Failure?
1. Is YourHave You
Checked Your
Oil This
Month?
Have You
Done An Oil
Analysis This
Quarter?
Do You Have
Vibration
Monitoring?
YES!
YES!
NO
Great! If your oil
level has been
checked you are on
your way to having
zero gearbox
issues. If your oil
has debris, you may
want to change it
right away!
Stop right here and
go check your oil.
Look for debris, and
check the oil level.
Low oil is one of the
most common
issues as to why a
gearbox will fail.
OK, now we are
impressed, you
probably should
win a maintenance
award. Your gear-
box is looking to be
in great shape!
We wont scold you,
were happy that you
are checking your oil.
We do recommend the
Karl Fisher analysis for
accurate water content.
Every analysis should
include viscosity and a
total acid number
(TAN). An increase in
both and your oil
should be changed
immediately.
NO
Does Your Oil
Need to be
Changed?
YES!NO
Oil should be changed
at 2,500 hours or every
6 months. When look-
ing to change your oil,
be sure there are no
Extreme Pressure or
EP additives. They
have been proven to
cause damage to the
internal lining of the
gear case over time
and will signi鍖cantly
reduce the bearing life.
YES! NO
Bravo! You are
taking the right
steps towards your
preventative
maintenance care
for your gearbox.
Your gearbox
should have a long
and prosperous life!
Vibration switches will
prevent catastrophic
failure, alerting you
when there is too much
vibration on your gear
box. Consider using a
vibration transducer.
This gives a more
accurate reading and
can help with
diagnostics and the
prevention of failure.
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Set For Failure?
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Additional
Steps You Can
Take to Prevent
Failure
Oil Level Switch: Automatically
monitors oil level.
Filtration System: Helps to 鍖lter
oil when needed.
Oil Sight Glass: Easy to see oil
levels from outside the gearbox.
Heater & Thermostat: Monitors
temperature.
Oil Pressure Switch
Low Speed: Helps sling oil into
upper bearings.
Non Reverse Adder: Stops Fan
from windmilling and damaging
gearbox at start up.