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Maintaining Belt Drives For Maximum Savings

July 12, 2010

July 2010 · Maintenance Technology Magazine Properly maintained V-belt drives can be up to 97% efficient. Poorly operating belt drives can waste as much as 10% additional input power. Let’s consider a scenario that ignores motor losses and only considers losses in the belt drive. With electricity costs of seven cents per kWh, a rotor operating three […]