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Toshiba T300Mvi Medium Voltage VFD in stock

Monday, March 4th, 2013

EMA is expecting new stock on a 4160 volt 2000 HP Toshiba T300Mvi Medium Voltage drive  in mid June of 2013.  We are accepting orders on this medium voltage VFD now. The Toshiba T300MVi Medium Voltage VFD is rated at 2000 HP, and in a Nema 1 enclosure.  This is the standard Toshiba Medium Voltage [...]

EMA ‘s Rebecca Zeeuw top 1% most viewed Linkedin profiles

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

Top 1% Most Viewed @ LinkedIn Profiles for 2012 Thank you for making my profile one of the top 1% most viewed at LinkedIn for 2012! http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rebecca-zeeuw/27/135/49a/ Rebecca works from our Cortland, NY facility, and leads an active life as a wife, mom, farmer,  and community worker in addition to her sales engineer duties at [...]

Predictive Maintenance or Preventive Maintenance?

Friday, February 8th, 2013

Predictive Maintenance: A Strategy for Maximum Asset Utilization and Cost Reduction:  By Dave Thomas, EMA   Things are changing.  Business has entered the “next wave” of asset productivity improvement – one that places new and additional stresses upon operations and productivity management.  Enhanced demands for operational effectiveness, improved revenue and customer satisfaction, integrally linked to [...]

Service on an Oil Pipeline Robicon Perfect Harmony VFD

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

EMA does a fair amount of service for pipeline companies, and in particular on their medium voltage VFDs.  This particular call was in Houston, Texas on a Robicon Perfect Harmony 4160 volt medium voltage variable frequency drive. This particular Perfect Harmony Robicon VFD was faulting out on “IGBT Device Out of Saturation Fault”. Upon arrival [...]

A Fun Christmas Song: “Some Assembly Required”

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

There are plenty of Christmas songs around; and I love singing almost all Christmas song. Most Christmas songs are either about the birth of the Messiah, Santa Claus, or fun and family. And all of that is wonderful. But, Steve Pritchard and I decided to write a song about those three words that every Dad [...]

Yaskawa E7 VFDs in Stock while they last

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

EMA purchased a large inventory of the popular Yaskawa E7 HVAC drive.  As many of you know, this product is being discontinued. We have the Yaskawa E7 variable frequency drives in both bypass and standalone mode. These units are being sold on a first come first serve basis.  Call 800-848-2504 to inquire about stock, or [...]

Medium Voltage VFD On Site Training

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

On site training on 4160 volt medium voltage VFD s is hard to find.  EMA began providing this service for a select group of customers. Right now,  we can offer this on the Toshiba MV300 medium voltage vfd,  on the Robicon Perfect Harmony medium voltage vfd, on the WEG MVW 01 medium voltage VFD, and [...]

Surplus 750 HP Medium Voltage Motor Starter for $2700.00

Monday, November 26th, 2012

We have an unused, but not new,  4160 volt medium voltage motor starter for sale. It includes the input disconnect, fusing, vacuum contactor, door controls, and metering. This unit was manufactured by Saftronics. It is rated at 105 Amperes, and 4160 volts. We have tested this unit, and it works fine. It is clean, and [...]

Let’s Get Real Marriage Conference Stone Mountain, GA

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Mountain Park First Baptist (www.mpfbc.org) :  February 8- 10, Stone Mountain, GA.   The Cost is $20 per couple ($15 if registered prior to 1/7/13)   Dale and Jena Forehand are authors and sought-after speakers for Marriage and Family Conferences, Men’s Conferences, Women’s Conferences, Parenting, Student and Children Events.  Dale and Jena have conducted marriage conferences [...]

Assembling and commissioning a WEG MV01 medium voltage VFD

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Abdou Barrow recently had to re-assemble a WEG MV01 medium voltage VFD that had been taken apart at a distant site, and then commission the VFD. The following is his account of this unusual call. I recently did a start up on a 3000 HP 4160 volt WEG MV01 medium voltage VFD in California. (IF [...]