For over 30 years, Cutsforth has installed over 35,000 of the best-in-class brush holders on turbine generators worldwide. Now, with our exclusive EASYchange® Brush Condition Monitoring, Cutsforth offers an even better way to operate your generator’s brush-type excitation. Brush performance metrics can now be delivered to the control room system and maintenance can be performed based on brush condition, rather than a calendar.
Automated measurements and brush health analytics allow plant operators to improve the efficiency of technicians’ daily and weekly tasks by dispatching them to the collector when maintenance is actually needed.
The Brush Condition Monitoring System is composed of:
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a Cutsforth-developed industrial data logger product known as the Brush Health Sensor (BHS) (A) shown installed on the EASYchange® brush holder, and
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a Sensor Controller touch-screen interface (B) that compiles the data collected from several BHS units installed with the EASYchange® brush holders.
Cutsforth’s patented hardware and technology processes and transmits the following data points over a 2.4 GHz wireless link to local displays as well as via Modbus protocol into a plant’s DCS, Historian, or InsightCMTM.