AoFrio’s Wellington ECR motors and fans may be part of the company’s oldest product line but are still one of the most popular.

Climate change is arguably the number one issue of our times. Increasing global realization of this, and confrontation of the actions necessary to mitigate it, has already had a substantial impact on the industries Wellington serves, and we expect this trend to continue.  Global electricity demand is outpacing growth of renewable generation. The IEA’s roadmap to net-zero calls for coal-fired electricity generation to fall by 6% a year: in practice, it is expected to increase by 3% in 2022. International Energy Agency, 2021

Wellington Director and CEO, Greg Allen and Mexico Sales General Manager Jorge Civeira were privileged to have joined distinguished attendees at the seminar for collaboration opportunities for New Zealand and Mexico Business, organized by COMCE.

Wellington’s ECR^® 2 fan motors have many advanced features which enable OEMs to improve cooler performance. In this blog post, we will discuss one of these: timed behaviors. The timed behavior function allows the motor to run in one mode for a period, then change to a different mode, without any change in the control inputs. Creative use of this feature offers many opportunities to enhance and differentiate cooler behavior.

ECR 2 fan motors achieve simple on-off control by removing power from the brown (phase) wire. Alternatively, they are configurable for three “speed” settings, these are selected by connecting the black (control) wire to phase, to neutral, or not connecting it.

For any given connection position of the black wire (i.e. to phase, neutral, or nothing), the motor behavior can be configured so: