Imagine you’re driving a car with your foot flat on the accelerator, and using the brake to moderate your speed. This is not an efficient way to drive; it wastes petrol and can cause damage to the vehicle’s components. And yet this is how many industrial motors are run, operating at full power and using vanes and dampers to throttle output. In this video Phil Nightingale of Inverter Drive Systems Ltd – an ABB Authorised Value Provider – explains how drives help a motor to run much more efficiently, and potentially save businesses thousands of pounds a year.
