Twin Disc Southeast consistently meets the needs of the regional industries. From phosphorous mining to commercial shipping operations, Twin Disc Southeast provides sales, servicing, and experienced repair capabilities to fluid couplings.

Any prime mover equipped with a fluid coupling starts practically free of load and becomes loaded according to the absorption characteristics of the fluid coupling. Thus, it may be possible to obtain up to 100 percent or more starting torque with a NEMA B motor and fluid coupling than the motor can deliver when mechanically connected. Similarly, an engine is free of lugging because it is allowed to operate in a more efficient range.

Motor Benefits

• Starting
• Acceleration
• Reduced Current Draw
• Overload Protection
• Power Factor
• Sizing

Drive Benefits

• Starting
• Shock Cushioning
• Load Distribution
• Jam / Overload Protection
• Reversing

Fluid cushioning best describes the running benefits that result from the use of a fluid coupling. Starts may be faster, but they are softer than mechanically connected and soft enough to protect the the most delicate of products being processes or transferred.

Twin Disc Southeast can provide the options necessary. Such options may include: second lubrication pumps - air operated control valves - radiators

Twin Disc Fluid Couplings are available for ten (10) to one thousand three hundred and seventy five (1375) horsepower range. We recommend that you request and review Product Bulletin 195-A for more technical features concerning the Fluid Couplings.