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Operating Instructions BA 42/06

Contents

Contents
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General ..........................................................................................................................................................................
1.1
Safety labels ..................................................................................................................................................
1.2
Safety instructions .......................................................................................................................................
1.3
Specified application ...................................................................................................................................

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3
3
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Design/Types .................................................................................................................................................................

Installation of the drive shaft ....................................................................................................................................

Installation of the drive shaft covering....................................................................................................................

4.1
Installation of the guard plate for the horizontal drive shaft ..............................................................
4.2
Installation of the telescopic protective tube for the vertical drive shaft ..........................................
4.3
Installation of the protective tube for vertical drive shaft with isolator ............................................

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Installation of the drive shaft with cardan joints ...................................................................................................

5.1
Installation of the drive shaft with cardan joints ...................................................................................
5.2
Installation of the telescopic protective tube for drive shafts with cardan joints (fig. 10) .............

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Installation of the drive shaft with insulator ..........................................................................................................

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NOTE!
The product may have been modified after this document went to press.
We expressly reserve the right to make changes to the technical data, the design or the scope of
delivery.
In general, the information provided and the arrangements agreed during processing of the relevant
offers and orders are binding.
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1 General

General

1.1

Safety labels

1.2

The following safety labels relating to the operation of the

drive shaft are used in these operating instructions.
These labels must be observed at all times!

WARNING!
Refers to a potentially hazardous
situation that may result in death
or severe injury.

ATTENTION!
Refers to a potentially harmful situation that may result in damage
to the the product or adjacent
equipment.

Safety instructions

All warnings and safety instructions must be observed at

all times!
Failure to follow the safety instructions may lead to accidents and severe personal injury.
Please read these operating instructions before commissioning the equipment!
Please read the operating instructions before putting the
drive shaft into service. As the operator, you are responsible
for ensuring that users of the equipment have fully understood the operating and safety instructions.
Train your staff!
Before asking staff to work with the drive shaft, provide
training regarding general and special safety instructions
and accident prevention regulations.
1.3

Specified application

NOTE!
Contains important information
and special notes.

WARNING!
Failure to motor drive, on-load
tap-changer and transfomer!
Installation and commissioning of
the drive shaft may only be carried
out by qualified, skilled personnel
and under strict observation of
these Operating Instructions.
It is the responsibility of the user to
ensure that the drive shaft is used
for the specified application only.
For safety reasons, do not carry out
any unauthorized work, i. e. during
installation, modification, commissioning and alteration of the drive
shaft without first consulting MR!
The trouble-free operation of motor drive, on-load tap-changer and
transformer may be put at risk.

NOTE!
The serial numbers of motor-drive,
on-load tap-changer or off-circuit
tap-changer, drive shafts and bevel
gear must correspond.

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Design/Types

The drive shaft is the mechanical connection between motordrive and on-load tap-changer head or off-circuit tap-changer head. The change from the vertical to the horizontal direction is performed by the bevel gear (see dimension drawing
892916).
Accordingly, the vertical drive shaft has to be mounted between motor-drive and bevel gear and the horizontal drive shaft
between bevel gear and on-load tap-changer or off-circuit
tap-changer.
The drive shaft is designed as a square tube and is coupled at
both ends by two coupling brackets and one coupling bolt to
the driving end of the drive shaft ends of the unit to be connected.

ATTENTION!
When mounting the drive shaft
make sure that the shaft ends to be
connected are exactly aligned.
Otherwise the trouble-free operation of the motor-drive and the onload tap-changer off-circuit tapchanger cannot be guaranteed.

Graded standard lengths of square tubes, see table 1

Standard length

Motor-drive

Manual drive

400

600
900

1300

1700

2000

2500

not admissible

1)

3000
3500
4500

not admissible
not admissible
not admissible

1)
1)
1)

Maximum total shaft length of the drive - last pole = 15 m!

Table 1
1)
l> 2000 only possible for vertical installation without shaft
protection! Telescopic protective tubes for manual drives with
vertical dimensions V1>2462 should be delivered vertically,
similar to the motor drive unit with intermediate bearing.

Minor axial displacement can be tolerated as long as it does

not exceed 35 mm per 1000 mm square shaft length (that
corresponds to 2).
Square tubes, coupling brackets, coupling bolts, screws, and
locking washers are corrosion-resistant. We therefore recommend not to apply the same external coating to these parts as
to the transformer tank.
The square tubes and the vertical guard plate are supplied in
overlengths (graded standard lengths). These parts must be cut
to the correct length when mounted on the transformer. In
rare cases the inner tube of the telescopic protective tube has
to be cut.

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Installation of the drive shaft

Proceed for installation as follows (see fig. 1):

ATTENTION!
Check to make sure that the motor
protective switch is tripped before
starting the coupling procedure,
otherwise the motor drive can start
up accidentally.

Set axial clearance of 3 mm at one end!

Determine dimension A between the two shaft ends.

Cut the square tube to the dimension LR = A - 9 mm.
Deburr the cut.
Loosely attach one coupling piece (2 coupling brackets) with
4 screws M6 x 25/w. s.10 and 4 locking washers and slide it
onto the square shaft up to the dead stop. Tighten the screws
with a torque of 9 Nm. See section 4.2 for installation of the
telescopic protective tube!

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Insert the coupling bolt into the lower shaft end and slide the
square shaft over it together with the coupling piece
(fig. 2). Provide the opposite end with a coupling bracket and
the coupling bolt. Fit in the square shaft by the end and connect it with the second coupling bracket below by 4 selflocking screws M6/w.s. 10 and 4 locking washers.
Set an axial clearance of 3 mm between the coupling bolt
and the upper coupling piece (fig. 3).
Preliminary tightening of the screws at approx. 6 Nm in
preparation for the alignment.
Carry out final tightening of the screws only after aligning
the on-load tap-changer and the motor drive unit (see
BA 138, chapter 3.3 "Coupling on-load tap-changer and
motor drive"). Tighten the screws M6/w. s. 10 with a max.
torque of 9 Nm.

NOTE!

NOTE!

Grease the coupling bolts, the coupling brackets and the ball heads
(e. g. with adhesive grease ISOFLEX
TOPAS L 32).

The middle bore holes of the coupling brackets can be used for lead
seals.

LR -

Axial clearance of 3 mm

Dimension
between shaft
ends
Length of square
tube

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4 Installation of the drive shaft covering

Installation of the drive shaft covering

ATTENTION!
According to IEC standard 60214,
all driving shafts located on the
outside of the transformer need to
be protected with safety coverings.
To protect the vertical drive shaft, it needs to be covered with
a telescopic protective tube. The horizontal drive shaft needs
to be protected with a guard plate.

4.1

LSR

Installation of the guard plate for the horizontal

drive shaft

LSB

Proceed for installation of the guard plate as follows (fig. 4):

Determine dimension B over the connecting flanges of the
housings.
Cut down the guard plate to dimension LSB = B - 2 mm,
Deburr the cut and protect it against corrosion by a coat of
paint.
To install the horizontal guard plate (uniform lengths
between 400 and 2,300 mm), please pay attention to the
following:
Slide the guard plate over the connecting flanges on the onload tap-changer and the bevel gear and fasten at each end
with a hose clip (fig. 5).

Dimension between
shaft ends
Length of the extended
telescopic protective tubes
- Inside width between
the housings
- Length of the guard
plate

LSB = B - 2

MR

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4.2

Installation of the telescopic protective tube for

the vertical drive shaft

To install the telescopic protective tube (uniform lengths

between 200 and 1150 mm) please pay attention to the following (fig. 6).
Determine dimension A (V1 = A + 453) between the shaft end
of the ED and the bevel gear.
Now shorten the inner tube on the non-slotted side as
follows without deforming it. Ensure that it is deburred
properly so that it can slide easily in the outer tube:
for dimension A = 170-190 mm shorten inner tube to size
200 (outer tube = 200)
for dimension A = 191-1130 mm shorten inner tube to size
A + 20 (outer tube = 200)
for dimension A = 1131-1598 mm use size 700 inner tube
without shortening (outer tube = 1150)
for dimension A = 1599-2009 mm use 1150 size for both
tubes without shortening
Before the vertical drive shaft is installed, the adapter ring
must be located around the bearing neck of the bevel gear
and the coupling bolts must be pushed in (fig. 6).
Now the two lower coupling brackets must be screwed onto
the drive shaft.
The two protective tubes (inner tube with slot facing downwards and outer tube pushed over inner tube) must now be
pushed over the drive shaft mounted on the driven shaft of
the motor-drive unit and this must be aligned with the bevel
gear.
Push in the upper coupling bolts. Then mount the upper
coupling brackets with four self-locking screws (M6 x 25/w.
s. 10) to the drive shaft with an axial play of 3 mm. Now
attach the lower protective tube (inner tube) with a hose clip
on the bearing collar of the motor drive. Then push the upper
protective tube over the adapter at the bevel gear and attach
on both slotted sides with hose clips.

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Installation of the protective tube for vertical

drive shaft with isolator

The procedure for the installation with isolator is similar to

section 4.2, except that in addition to the adapter ring at the
bevel gear an insulated spacer ring must be positioned on the
bearing collar of the motor drive before the drive shaft is installed.

Adapter ring

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Installation of the drive shaft with cardan joints

5.1

Installation of the drive shaft with cardan joints

NOTE!

Installation of the drive shaft with cardan joints is designed

as vertical drive shaft between motor-drive and bevel gear.
Technically, horizontal design is also possible.

Make sure that the position of the

opposite cardan joint straps corresponds!
Do not allow the expansion bellows
to be damaged when the cardan
joint folds up.

To install the cardan joints, please proceed as follows

(fig. 10, page 10):
The included cardan joint with the inner hub diameter of
24.6 mm must be connected to the ball head of the motordrive unit via cardan joint bolts. The second cardan joint with
the inner hub diameter of 25 mm must be installed on the
bevel gear. For all other types of installation, a cardan joint
with an inner hub diameter of 25 mm must be used. The
cardan joint bolt is secured with the hose clip on the
expansion bellows.

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Provisionally connect the loose shaft ends of the joints to a

piece of angle bar and align (fig. 7).
Determine dimension A between the shaft ends.
Cut down the square tube shaft to LR = A + 106 mm
and deburr the cuts.

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NOTE!

ATTENTION!

Grease the coupling bolts, the coupling brackets and the ball heads
(e. g. with adhesive grease ISOFLEX
TOPAS L 32).

By the correct coupling of motordrive and on-load tap-changer or

off-circuit tap-changer you ensure
that the on-load tap-changer is sure
to switch over before the motordrive stops so that the position of
the on-load tap-changer or off-circuit tap-changer and motor-drive
are the same in any operating position.
Otherwise there is a danger to motor-drive, on-load tap-changer and
transformer.

Mount lower coupling brackets loosely on the square tube.

Mount coupling bolt(s). Put in square tube and push completely down so that no axial play remains between coupling
bolt and coupling bracket.
Screw both coupling brackets with 4 self-locking screws M6
x 25/w. s.10) and 4 locking washers with a tightening torque
of 9 Nm (fig. 8). This securely connects (no clearance) end of
shaft and coupling piece.
See section 5.2 for installation of the telescopic protective
tube!
Provide the upper shaft end with a coupling bolt.
Connect the square tube and the shaft end by 2 coupling
brackets and 4 self-locking screws M6 x 25/w. s.10 and
4 locking washers (fig. 9).
Set an axial clearance of 3mm at one end between the
coupling bolts and upper coupling brackets.
Preliminary tightening of the bolts at approx. 6 Nm in preparation for the alignment.
Carry out final tightening of the screws only after aligning
the on-load tap-changer and the motor drive unit (see BA
138, chapter 3.3 "Coupling on-load tap-changer and motor
drive"). Tighten the screws M6/w. s. 10 with a max. torque of
9 Nm.

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Installation of the telescopic protective tube for

drive shafts with cardan joints (fig. 10)

Before beginning installation, each of the two telescope tubes

must be shortened to dimension A/2 + 120 mm (A is the dimension between the ends of the cardan joint).
The adapter (item 1) on the bearing collar of the ED and the
adapter (item 4) of the bevel gear must be mounted.
Now slide the deburred and shortened (according to chapter
5.1) square tube over the upper cardan joint end as far as it
will go.

Before finishing installation, the following components have

to be threaded from below onto the square tube, following
the sequence as per description:
1. upper flexible protective tube (item 5), with the long end of
the tube pointing up
2. adapter (item 3)
3. outer tube (item 7), with the slit side pointing down
4. inner tube (item 6)
Now slide the adapter (item 2) and the lower flexible protective tube (item 5) with the long end of the tube pointing up
over the inner tube.

Bevel gear

Set axial clearance of 3 mm at one end!

5.2

LR = A + 106
LR

- Length of square tube

- Distance between shaft ends

Pos.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Designation
Adapter d82 x 102
Adapter d87 x 102
Adapter d92 x 102
Adapter d71 x 102
flexible protective tube
inner tube
outer tube
hose clip 87 - 112

Unit
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
5

Motor-drive
890063

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Mount a screw clamp on the square tube in order to avoid that

the components slide off during the installation of the coupling brackets of the shaft tubes.
To finish the installation of the telescope tube all the above
mentioned components must be tightened. Proceed from top
to bottom.
For this purpose be sure that the plastic adapters are located
on the respective end of the flexible protective tube and that
the telescope tube is only slid into the upper or the lower
flexible protective tube as far as the adapter is wide (item 3).
Slide the flexible protective tube over the adapter (item 4)
between the protective tube and the bevel gear. Then fit the
adapter (item 3) between the flexible protective tube and the
outer tube and secure the protective tube on both sides with
hose clips (item 8).
The installation of the lower protective tube between the ED
and the inner tube has to be carried out with an adapter (item
2) and two hose clips (item 8).
1. Slide the flexible protective tube over the adapter (item 1)
between the protective tube and the motor drive unit.
2. Fit the adapter (item 2) between the flexible protective tube
and the inner tube .
3. Secure the protective tube on both sides with hose clips.
At the end, secure the two telescope tubes towards each other
with a hose clip.

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6 Installation of the drive shaft with insulator

Installation of the drive shaft with insulator

A model with insulator of the vertical drive shaft is available

(fig. 11) for insulating installation of the drive shaft.

The insulator can also be used in connection with the joint

shaft (fig. 12).

Type with insulator (D max. = 2)

Type with insulator (D max. = 20)

from 898598

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from 898598

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8929166E

Bevel gearing

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e2 = 215 for design with ball joint

e1 = 205 for standard design

Dimension drawing

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