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The hand-held MotorSlide Calculator
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A hand-held tool for making motor decisions simple
Now an on-line tool for making motor decisions simple
To help you decide on premium-efficiency motors, you need a good tool. You could start from scratch with
equations and calculations. You could buy software. Or you could get a simple and easy-to-use tool.
Working with the Motor Decisions
Matter campaign, Productive Energy Solutions has developed the MotorSlide Calculator™ to meet this need.
MotorSlide is a simple, accurate, proven, hand-held tool for calculating motor costs and savings.
Pocket-sized and easy to use, this informational tool will provide you with quick answers to your motor questions including
recommended efficiency guidelines.
Click here to go to our
online version of the calculator.
Click here to
find out how to get a free copy of the hand-held version.
Full featured
MotorSlide provides essential data for making informed motor decisions.
- Annual electric costs - Shows you
how much motors really cost to operate. MotorSlide covers motors from 1 to 200 hp over a wide range of utility rates.
- Cost savings - Calculate
the financial benefits of upgrading to a more efficient motor. The calculator gives savings for 3,000 and 8,000 hours per year
operation.
- Efficiency guidelines - Helps
you select motors that meet EPACT or NEMA Premium® efficiency levels. Guidelines are given for both Totally Enclosed Fan
Cooled and Open Drip Proof motors.
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MotorSlide Calculators can be custom printed with your company or organization's logo and other
information.
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Proven track record
Over 30,000 MotorSlide calculators are already in use across the country. They have also been used in
several United Nations sponsored training courses around the world. Our customers are using the MotorSlide Calculator to
promote the use of Premium-efficiency motors, and with custom printing available to put their company logo or other information
on the front flap, they're using the Calculator to increase their name recognition as well.
Click here to see some of the different custom-printed versions that are being used by our customers.
Simple and convenient
MotorSlide is easy to use. By following along with the sample problem inside the flap, many can master
all the functions in less than ten minutes. It's also conveniently sized.
Accurate
Why rely on complicated equations or software packages? Productive Energy Solutions has already done the
math and checked the calculations – which are accurate to within two percent. For additional assurance, professional
engineers and motor program managers working with the MDM campaign have verified MotorSlide results.
Professionally made
MotorSlide calculators are precision printed on special presses and cut with custom dies to ensure quality and accuracy.
How to get one
If you are a US-based commercial or industrial facility and would like a free copy of the hand-held
MotorSlide Calculator, call the Copper Development Association at 1-888-480-MOTR (1-888-480-6687), or call the DOE BestPractices
Clearinghouse at 1-800-862-2036. Or, if you are served by one of our partner organizations listed below, contact them through
your customer service representative to request a copy.
How to get several or several hundred
Click here for information about buying multiple copies of the MotorSlide Calculator.
How to get several thousand customized
Click here for information about a customized version of the MotorSlide Calculator to promote your organization and your motor program.
Partner Organizations using the MotorSlide Calculator:
Motor Decisions Matter
"Many industrial customers don't realize that energy accounts for approximately 95% of a motor's
lifetime operating cost. The MotorSlide calculator shows how premium-efficiency motors can significantly reduce these
costs. A number of MDM sponsors now use the calculator in their sales and marketing materials."
Ilene Mason
Manager
Motor Decisions Matter
www.motorsmatter.org
For more information on the Motor Decisions Matter campaign, visit www.motorsmatter.org, or contact the U.S. Department of Energy's BestPractices Clearinghouse at 1-800-862-2036.
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