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For over 20 years, RD Europe Group has been designing and manufacturing customized commutators with cage technology to reduce copper waste, improve commutator  displacement at high speeds and brush life. We guarantee speed tests at 40,000 RPM 180°C with bar deflection <= 0.005 mm and insulation test 300V 50Hz bar-bar, 3000V 50Hz bar-shaft. RD Europe Group develops over 100 new products every year made with 0.03% CuAg and 0.08% CuAg materials and UL certified quality resins. If you want to improve your products in terms of efficiency and reduce production costs, ask for a quote for your new collector with high-performance cage technology and extend the life of your electric motor. Quality without compromise for the excellence of your motor. Contact us directly info@rdeuropegroup.com

RD Europe Group has developed, in collaboration with a manufacturer of grinders, a commutator equipped with a special copper hook to improve the performance of power tool motors, ensuring an insulation class compatible with the UL / CSA standards of the same engine. The special copper hook has been designed to be able to wind copper wire with a larger section up to 1.25 mm, and to improve and conform the welding of the hook on automatic lines. Even the class H resin has been designed to comply with the UL / CSA insulation class required by the American market, much more restrictive than the European: then the bar/bar insulation is obtained by a special mica produced by SUMITOMO Japan.

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RD Europe Group has been contacted by a leading manufacturer of DC motors in the automation sector to create a customized solution for which we have developed a custom commutator 12 hooks diameter 23 mm, length 17 mm, bore 7.95 mm for improving the life of the commutator and therefore of the electric motor.

For this project we made the first 100,000 commutators with 0.03% silver copper, minimum hardness 95-105 HBV, UL certified resin, 500V bar / bar insulation and 1500V bar / mass guaranteed with 22000 RPM speed test. The commutator made by RD Europe perfectly meets the customer's needs: it is eco-sustainable because without asbestos, it is guaranteed in terms of sturdiness, reliability and durability. Thanks to our solution, it was possible to improve the life of its electric motor because it does not suffer the sudden changes in voltage that may be present on the network, recording a considerable reduction in short circuits.

Another innovation named RD Europe.

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For a new collaboration with a large German manufacturer of electric motors, RD Europe Group has designed a special micro-sized commutator responding to specific requests of specific characteristics. Our team has studied the needs and designed a tailor-made 6 hooks with a diameter of 8.1 mm, 10 mm long with a 3.1 mm bore in shell-type technology and air mica undercut. In addition to special measures, the collector had to ensure specific materials using 0.08% silver copper with hardness above 95 HB and bars with a minimum tensile strength of 50N. RD Europe Group has solved all the requests, launching the production of a commutator with a copper hardness of 105 HB and bars with average tensile strength of 179 N. The micro commutator, a shell model made of phenolic resin without asbestos but with fiber glass and mineral material, passes the bar-bar test at 250V 50 Hz for 1 minute and blade-shaft test at 2000V 50 Hz for one minute.

RD Europe Group designs and manufactures commutators for every need, from miniaturized to those bigger for heavy industry.

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FEATURES:

Thanks to "CAGE" technology RD EUROPE GROUP is able to realize commutators with important advantages compared to classic production procedure.

ADVANTAGES:

CAGE technology, involves a substantial reduction of the unbalance, consequently increases life of your appliance.

Other advantages due to this technology are:

lower consumption of brushes,

lower consumption of copper, since the individual blades are inserted one by one into the commutator,

lower air gap between the blades, that are not milled.

To became independent of the market and improve its main product, an Italian company manufacturer of professional hair-driers met us to re-project, together with their R&D dept., the internal electric commutator. The new commutator must grant a longer brush last (2200 hours of usage), a motor power of 2150 WATT and an air capacity of 80 meters cube/hour, respecting European regulation and American UL/CSA. RD Europe Group so projected a new and solider commutator (with a brass bush instead of resin) and increasing thickness of isolation mica (form 0.3 to 0.5 mm). Commutator, moreover, must respect precise dimensions to be conform to the existing hair-drier model. After some weeks of tests, RD Europe group created an “ad Hoc” solution for customer, brilliantly overpassed commutator’s spin test (50.000 rpm at 150 C° of temperature for 2 minutes with a radial movement <= 0.01 mm). Today, RD Europe has produced half million of pieces. Italy is biggest hair-drier producer in the world with over 4 million of pieces per year. On half million is assembled a RD Europe commutator.

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An important German company manufacturer of motors for power tools has involved us in the creation of a new special 32 bars electric commutator, 33.7 mm in diameter and 31 mm long. The type of motor is professional and must guarantee a long life of the brushes, the previous commutator used by the customer included steel reinforcement rings and a mica gasket which created short circuits when the motor was working under stress. RD Europe Group worked on the solution by modifying the phenolic resin in glass-filled resin (long fiber) and replacing the mica rings with fiberglass rings. Glass fiber is a material with superior characteristics from a physical, chemical and mechanical point of view, it is one of the most precious engineering materials available thanks to its versatility. Glass being spun to diameters less than a tenth of a millimeter loses its brittleness to become a material with high mechanical strength and resilience, with better mechanical wear properties and dimensional stability because it is not influenced by external agents. The glass fiber gasket used for this commutator is highly resistant to high temperatures between 180 and 300 ° C with a tensile strength between 800MPA and 1200MPA. In 2019 the motor went into production and over 100,000 power tools were manufactured with this new solution.

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A major Italian company trusted on the reliability of RD Group Europe to overcome a problem of electric commutators availability. The existing provider was no longer able to guarantee an electrical commutator for the machine. It was a 24 bars commutator with a crown diameter of 41 mm and 37.5 mm brush track diameter, bore 15 mm and a length 24 mm for only 3500 pieces. It was not obvious to find someone who could quickly meet the demand for a dedicated collector, with similar amounts and timing under three months. Thanks to the versatility and experience of RD Europe we were able to put produce and delivery these parts within six weeks, letting the customer not losing sales.
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