FAQ - Keppe Motor

1.8. Can a Keppe Motor be used for any potency?

Answer: Basically it can. The difference between a paper boat and an ocean liner is a matter of engineering, because both float in water. Even though there is still a lot of research and work to be done to scale up the Keppe Motor, nothing has proven otherwise.

The development of the Keppe Motor is fast and today we have made 200W models that are smaller than the 30W models of two years ago.

Some of the key factors to obtain power with high efficiency is precisely the relationship between the magnetic fields of the rotor and the stator in its specific resonance point through natural pulses. 

High efficiency motors (tens or hundreds of KVA) have more than 90% efficiency, however, when running idle, they consume a lot of energy just to remain on. This suggests that projects that include motors require them to work constantly under nominal load, otherwise they become inefficient. If we take an escalator in a mall, a public elevator or a conveyor belt at an airport, for example, their drive motor have good efficiency when transporting people and things, but low efficiency when no one or nothing is being transported. The average efficiency is not the same as the full load efficiency and because of that, in escalators for example, sensors are installed so that they begin to work only when someone approaches, thus saving energy.

However, during work, the motor’s efficiency will vary greatly if the load varies from one or 30 people being transported.

Tests on a large multinational German motor manufacturer revealed that the Keppe Motor keeps its high efficiency even under high load variations, i.e., from idle to full load, and this factor is a big advantage over the conventional motors.