Talk:Electromagnetic clutch

Clutches and brakes working on electromagnetic principle
Please see Talk:Electromagnetic brake. @harej 23:50, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Summary of earlier consensus on limiting the scope of this article
As per previous discussion on talk pages in October 2009, there was consensus that this article should contain a brief discussion of the different types of electromagnetic clutches, with detailed discussions in separate articles, for example, Friction-plate electromagnetic clutch and magnetic particle clutch

The Discoverer (talk) 20:10, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

This information is a result of over 50 years in the industry
The previous information on electromagnetic clutches was removed by a user. The previous information listed has now been reposted. This information is a result of over 50 years in the electromagnetic clutch and brake industry and the combined work of application and design engineers. This information has been previously published in industry trade magazines as are referenced. The user has decided to reclassify the article based on an arbitrary designation, however, industry recognizes electromagnetic clutches as a group which is based upon actuation method not based upon the type or number of engagement surfaces.

OIC1998 (talk) 14:58, 23 June 2011 (UTC) Denzil Simoes (talk) 05:08, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Organisation of information related to electromagnetic clutches and brakes
Justification for moving operational details of electromagnetic clutch (and electromagnetic brake) to separate pages:


 * Wikipeia is not a manual or textbook. Hence, it is desirable that the first article that a user views upon searching for 'electromagnetic clutch' (or 'electromagnetic brake') should contain only a summary in simple terms, and not a technical exposition. Having said that, I opine that the technical information for clutches which is now on friction-plate electromagnetic clutch is worth retaining on Wikipedia, and hence, should be in a separate article.


 * With the details in the main article, we are at around 29KB page size, which is near the suggested maximum of 32KB.


 * User:OIC1998 has raised a concern in the preceding section industry recognizes electromagnetic clutches as a group which is based upon actuation method not based upon the type or number of engagement surfaces. The article name friction-plate electromagnetic clutch is not intended to imply classification of the clutch, but rather to differentiate it from the main article electromagnetic clutch for want of a better name and to avoid something like 'constructional and working details of electromagnetic clutch'.


 * Logically, the article electromagnetic brake can also have the details moved to a separate article to improve readability of the main article.


 * The details added by User:OIC1998, including those added using the earlier username User:Oguraclutch to the articles electromagnetic clutch (now moved to friction-plate electromagnetic clutch) and to electromagnetic brake are virtually the same, with the word brake substituted for the word clutch. Hence, combining the details may be considered to avoid duplicity of the nformation.


 * The references for these details are all from the same commercial site ogura-clutch.com by the same author, Frank Flemming. References from reputed sources are needed.

The Discoverer (talk) 03:14, 24 June 2011 (UTC)