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How to prevent Dry Run in your Motor?

26 Jan 2025

Preventing Dry Run in your motor Pump

What is Dry Run?

If there is no medium i.e no load(water) on the motor it is termed as Dry Run.

If there is no load on the motor (The load being the Water) the motor shafts will start spinning at extreme high speeds resulting in the generation of Heat in the motor coil, Thus this resulting heat damages the entire motor mechanism.

Henceforth preventing Dry run is very important.

it is important to pay attention and never let a pump operate without water inside. Moreover, if you think about it, the main purpose of hydraulic pumps is to transfer a fluid, so letting the pump work without liquid is useless and it’s a huge waste of energy.

How to Prevent Dry Run?

 To avoid the dangers of dry run in your motor pump. One can simply install a dry run protection device which stops the pump immediately in case of danger of dry-running.

motor pump dry run

How does it Work?

Our proprietary Dry Run Relay monitors the Current and Voltage setting of the motor, If in case, It finds out that these values are unusually high, It immediately triggers a switch off to the motor , Hence preventing the motor from any damage.