Horizontal shaft alignment
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6. Confirm selection by pressing e.
Use the navigation keys to highlight the respective value boxes and enter directly,
the ambient temperature, the machine running temperature and the distance
from machine base to the shaft centerline using the data entry keys.
Pressing
q with the thermal growth calculator pane open reveals the available
context menu items.
In the example opposite, the
motor material is cast iron,
the ambient temperature is
25°C, the machine running
temperature is 120° C
and the distance from the
bottom of the machine feet
to the shaft centerline is 70
cm. This gives a growth of
0.71 mm.
The thermal growth pane
context menu items may be
used as desired.