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Recent Refurbishment saves municipality money at pumping station for a New England Wastewater Service Plant In today’s market, it is not always necessary to replace the entire Eddy Current Variable Speed drive system. Budget restraints and construction costs on large projects can hinder a complete remodel of an operation. This has been the case for large-horsepower applications that require medium-voltage (2,300 or 4,160 volt) motors. Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) in these applications are large, expensive and often require space that must be added on to existing buildings and be equipped with air conditioning systems that consume more power. A [...]

Eddy Current Drives: First Choice for High Performance and Reliable Operation You have several choices when it comes to drive technologies. But when the cost of downtime enters the decision making, the field narrows… to eddy current. Why? Because no other drive system operates with such simplicity, with so few parts to wear out, and with so little maintenance. Once you pencil in the total cost of downtime for your process, the lost material, the lost labor, the lost output, you’ll see why many system designers and engineers specify high performance eddy current drives. Simplicity makes the difference. [...]

DSI/Dynamatic Partners with Hydraulic Institute for Webinar About Eddy Current. DSI/Dynamatic’s Gary Patterson is once again partnering with Hydraulic Institute (HI), the global authority on pumps and pumping systems, to help present their newest webinar about Eddy Current drives, on May 22, 2019. As the premier go-to expert of the benefits of Eddy Current technology, Gary Patterson recently, worked to update HI’s published Application Guideline for Variable Speed Pumping, authoring the appendix devoted to the specific technology of Eddy Current Drives (also known as magnetic drives, eddy current clutches or magnetic clutches). The approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes [...]

Don’t Dismiss the Life Cycle Cost of Pump Drive Systems When municipalities are in the market for a new pump system there are many cost factors that need to be considered. Efficiency and acquisition cost of the drive system are generally the easiest to identify, but the one that is most often over looked is the Life Cycle cost of the system. The life cycle cost of a piece of equipment is defined as the sum of all costs associated with that equipment from the day it is purchased throughout its entire operating life. The costs that would need [...]

Drive Source International/Dynamatic® Announces new Regional Sales Engineer We are pleased to announce that Jennifer Ludlum has joined our team as Regional Sales Engineer. In this position, Jennifer will focus on engineering and customer service, while growing the DSI/Dynamatic® Representatives network in the Municipal and Industrial Water & Wastewater markets. Jennifer Ludlum holds a BSME in Mechanical Engineer from Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA. She has a comprehensive background as a maintenance engineer with marketing, and sales management experience. “I want to take my knowledge and develop educational training sessions for engineers and end-users.” Jennifer continues. “Increasing the number [...]

Gary Patterson named Municipal Market Manager at Drive Source International/Dynamatic Drive Source International (DSI) is proud to announce that Gary Patterson has been named our Municipal Market Manager. Gary started his career at Drive Source International in 2012, as the regional sales engineer for a portion of the Midwest. Soon after, it was determined that there was a large opportunity for variable speed drives in Water and Wastewater applications. Patterson then became the Technical Specialist of the newly formed DSI/Dynamatic’s Pumps, Fan and Compressor group.Gary Patterson holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, where he [...]

Dynamatic Variable Speed Eddy Current Drives and Controls Solve an Aging Infrastructure Problem After 36 years of service, the original controllers, at the Columbus Ohio pump station began to overheat. To compensate, the pump station installed temporary air conditioning to cool the controls. This kept them in service while they made plans for a permanent solution. An Engineering company was contracted to diagnose the problem. They recommend a solution, by designing extensive upgrades to the pump station, including refurbishments to the 41-year-old pumps. They decided that variable speed would still be required, thinking that VFDs would be the obvious choice. [...]

Drive Source International/ Dynamatic, Announces New CEO/ President Drive Source International/Dynamatic is pleased to welcome Gary Steinhart as the new CEO/President of Drive Source International (DSI)/Dynamatic. Gary will strategically focus on increasing market share of the Dynamatic product line throughout a variety of industry applications and introduction of our total system solutions. Gary Steinhart is an accomplished senior executive offering over 25 years of exceeding revenue, profit and business growth objectives within diverse markets. He is prepared to provide exceptional support, solutions and opportunities to the end users, specification writers, engineers and contractors in this marketplace. Gary [...]

The President signed the America’s Water Infrastructure Now Act (SRF WIN Act) into law, on October 24, 2018. The new law makes federal water infrastructure investments a top priority for the nation. Significantly increasing the annual, federal investment on water and wastewater infrastructure from approximately $2 Billion to over $7 Billion per year. The bipartisan legislation passed the Senate by a vote of 99 to 1 in October and by a voice vote in the House of Representatives in September. America’s Water Infrastructure Now Act is the most sweeping infrastructure package to date, it will grow the economy, keep communities [...]

Save the Date for Our Upcoming Webinar: “The Evolution of Variable Speed Drives in the Pump Industry” Variable speed drive technology has been around for many years, however over the past decade with the development of new power devices and magnetic materials VSD methodology has changed course. This course change has given rise to substantial confusion by users and specifiers of variable speed drive equipment. Add to that the difficulty in evaluating efficiency and power factor and the subject of drive selection becomes a daunting task indeed not to mention reliability, maintenance cost and life cycle costing. That fact of the [...]