Industries: Wind
Premium Wind Turbine Upgrades
Custom-Engineered Aftermarket Parts that Outperform OEM Parts
Helwig Carbon’s Wind Team provides customers with superior power and grounding solutions that are customizable to meet their desired outcomes and risk profiles. With our industry-leading knowledge and advanced brush technology, plus a wide scope of offerings and world-class field service, we can deliver service excellence.
Industry reports of poor brush life, low-quality brush holders, and wind turbine failures are frequent in OEM wind turbine generators, but by installing our premier aftermarket upgrades, you will see a significant decrease in maintenance and increase in brush life, performance, safety, and reliability.
Industry Leading Technologies
Main Shaft Grounding
Features:
- Durable, heavy-duty brass holder
- Proprietary K007 silver graphite brush
- Mounted on specially engineered, sturdy, and corrosion-resistant stainless steel bracket to fit directly on main shaft
- Easy installation using existing bolt pattern
- Extra long life cycle
- Maintenance free solution
- Grease Deflector Assemblies are available to ensure no contaminants are present on the brush path
- Kits are in stock & ready to ship
- OEM Approved
Main Shaft Grounding – BPK Assembly
Main Shaft Grounding Kit with Wiper
Pitch Motor Shaft Grounding
Save your motor bearings from induced shaft currents using one of our easy-to-install axial Bearing Protection Kits (BPKs)™. Industry-leading BPKs utilize a proprietary silver graphite brush to instantly ground any damaging currents.
Currently OEM approved with several wind pitch motor manufacturers.
iBrush Carbon Brush Remote Monitoring
Lightning Protection
Metalized Graphite Brushes
Power
- Custom-engineered brush grades virtually eliminate dusting and ring groove problems
- Longer brush life than original OEM brush
Grounding
- High durability grounding grades ensure extended life
- Provides superior performance and protection against high surge occurrences
Brush Holder Kits
Kit Advantages
Constant Force Springs
- Improved replacement springs to replace the OEM springs
- Enhanced spring design extends brush life by applying constant pressure at the brush face
HQDs
- Impressively fast and easy way to change brushes
- No screws to remove, lose, or replace
- HQD’s lock together with a tight, positive locking action even under rough conditions
- Increase maintenance safety
Brush Wear Switches
- Improved switches provide accurate brush wear notifications down tower
- Electrical assembly comes fully assembled and organized with easy-snap plugs
- Dust & dirt proof easy-snap plugs
Custom Solutions For Your Business
With world-class engineers and quick prototyping, Helwig is ready to support your project from concept through design completion, regardless of where you are in the development process. We produce custom-engineered carbon graphite brushes, brush holders, shaft grounding solutions, carbon graphite mechanical components & more, delivering reliable performance for demanding applications. Start your project with confidence by requesting a quote today.
Explore Wind Energy Services
Motor/Generator Test Lab
Our Milwaukee headquarters houses a state-of-the-art, climate-controlled, 2500 sq. foot motor test lab. We can replicate field conditions or customer specifications to provide accurate results for load, environment, and duty cycle.
Over 150 stock motors to couple with your motor for life testing.
In this lab, we test our products in many capacities to engineer them for the toughest environments. We also offer motor testing to customers to help develop application-specific grades to improve motor performance.
Other Studies:
- Grade Comparison Tests
- Performance Comparison Tests
- Life Tests
- Arcing Tests
- Black Band Tests
- Contamination Tests
- Other
Up Tower Engineering Support
Our dedicated Wind Team provides problem diagnosis, installation guidance, part maintenance recommendations, and industry-leading brush & holder knowledge.
Wind Team
- Comprised of wind engineers and technicians
- Climbing Certified
- Compliant to 29 CFR 1910 & 29 CFR 1926
- GWO 1001
