Carbon Brushes for DC motors

Our research efforts result in brush materials which provide greater commutating ability, longer life, and reduced commutator maintenance. Mersen produces advanced brush grades for service conditions ranging from high loads to low loads, contaminated environments (chemicals, moisture, oil vapors), and other difficult operating conditions. A grade able to meet your requirements can thus be readily selected among our variety of materials - please refer to Mersen’s Technical Guide Technical Guide "Carbon brushes for motors and generators"

Mersen, as a reference supplier of electric motor manufacturers, also offers dedicated services of refurbishment, replacement of brushes and brush-holders, re-engineering and trainings.

Mersen is capable of supplying you with carbon brushes of various designs, including shapes, components and sizes, with a high quality of manufacturing, in particular cable connection by tamping. When required, we could adjust the design (grade, cable, top pad, wafer size…) to adapt the carbon brush specifically to your DC motor for its application.

Operational properties can thus be optimized by enhancing the mechanical stability (shape, components, friction coefficient) and electrical performances (voltage drop at contact, commutation ability, load capacity), reducing the sensitivity to environmental condition (protecting / polishing / lubricating action on the commutator skin), etc. The function of a good brush is further explained in our technical data sheet reference TDS‑01.

In addition, Mersen offers solutions for alerting on brush wear (indicator devices, linked to the brush or to the brush-holder), or, to go further, monitoring of operational parameters with our complete solution MERSEN Total Monitoring.

• Specific designs
• Selected grades
• High quality tamping
• Optimized cable dimensions
• Good mechanical stability
• Low friction coefficient
• Adapted range of current density
• High transient current load capacity
• Good acceptability for commutation
• Wide speed range (from 15 to 55m/s)

Brushes from Mersen lead the way in such adverse applications of DC motors as: traction (locomotives, metros, mining…), lifting (forklifts, cranes, elevators…), conveyors (mining, cement and metalworking industries), extruders (plastics, metallurgy), and also winders, ventilators, pumps, etc.

Discover our range of products for each market:

• Electric and Diesel Electric Locomotives (traction motors)
• Transit & Metro (traction motors of metros, tramways or trolleybusses)
• Aerospace (auxiliary motors)
• Metallurgy (rolling mills, winders, wire drawing machines, extruders, winding machine)
• Paper plants (paper machines, winders)
• Cement plants (furnace motors, ventilators, ground or aerial conveyors)
• Plastic Industry (extruders)
• Forklifts (lifting motors, traction motors)
• Mining (draglines, shovels, wheel motors for front loaders and trucks, conveyors)
• Ports & marine (lifting motors for cranes and gantry cranes, propulsion motors, onboard motors)
• Oil & gas (drilling, lifting, pump and anchor motors)
• Elevators (lifting, ski lift motors)
• Ski lifts (motors)