Gulbarga collegians invent computerised motor testing device

Gulbarga collegians invent computerised motor testing device
SRINIVAS SIRNOORKAR

GULBARGA, MARCH 15: The students of the PDA Engineering College, Gulbarga, have invented a device that can accurately test the performance of transformers and induction motors in less than a minute.

Besides eliminating labour cost, it has been proved to be cost and time effective and foolproof in its purpose.

This PC-based device was developed by Preetamkumar Mehta and his team (Santosh Nadgeri, Bhimashankar Takkalki, Ilyas Ahmed, Syed Issaq Hussain and D Vinay Kumar) under the guidance of Dr P K Kulkarni of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

``This machine is new. Institutions such as the IIT Delhi and NIIT are working in collaboration but they haven't achieved the desired goal,'' claimed Mehta who is now busy getting the device patented.

Mehta now plans to take his brainchild to the international science exhibition likely to be held in USA in July.

``For us, the machine costs about Rs 18,000. But at the manufacturers' level, the cost will be reduced drastically. This is certain to revolutionise the transformer and motor industry,'' Mehta says with confidence.

Union Power Minister P Kumaramangalam showed personal interest in the model when he visited the Swdeshi Vigyana Mela.

The project model bagged the second prize at the Swadeshi Vigyan Mela held at New Delhi recently, the first position at Techfest 2000 at IIT Mumbai's annual technology event in January and was adjudged one of the outstanding projects of the year at the student projects programme organised by the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology in Bangalore in December last.

The advantage of such a device is it can accurately test performance, in less than a minute, compared to manual testing that takes a minimum of 20 minutes. The machine has already been tested at special laboratories.