Small Water Pump Bearing Failure

Bearing defect on 185 g’s is severe, with multiple defects including damaged balls, outer race, and cage.

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How severe is the bearing defect on 185 g's? see pictures

Small water pump running on 3000rpm oil lubricated coupled by motor 40HP. Redundant unit.

The easiest way to define a bearing defect is appearance audible noise, whenever you hear audible noise on high speed unit mostly the acceleration g's swing is about 50-100++, the bearing already damaged.

Multiple bearing defects occur on this bearing. Two balls were damaged, outer race defect, the cage also damaged. Captured by Muhammad Fauzan

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Category: Vibration Case Study
Language: English
Reading Time: 1 min
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water pump bearing fault case study
Original Authors
Diky Aldilla
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