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Optidrive ‘First XI’ Ready to Score for Moeller Electric
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Moeller Electric has put together a team of eleven specially selected key distributors through which it is to push its innovative new drive, Optidrive.
Commented Steve Rickard, Moeller product manager: "Distribution is an
important route to the market. Instead of diluting our resources across the
full spectrum of UK distributors we decided to put together a small number of
specially chosen automation experts through which to concentrate our efforts.
The 'first XI' chosen to handle Optidrive all have excellent track records in
drive technology and will give us a cutting edge with which to attack the
market. It's a case of bringing together the best drive product with the best
drive sales and support."
The full list of eleven Optidrive specialists is: • EPH Supplies (Wholesale), Spalding • Lockwell Lectrics, Tewkesbury • AB Electrical Wholesalers, York • Bonus Electrical, Hull • David Harrison & Sons, Halifax • E Preston (Electricals), Dukinfield • H-TE, Warrington • G&R Electrical, Plymouth • ABCO Electrical, Poole • WGA Industrial, Bicester • R&M Electrical, Southampton.
Not only is Optidrive one of the industry's smallest most powerful AC drive in its class but it is also by far the most user-friendly. Spanning a 0.3kW to 90kW power range, Optidrive is available in both single and three-phase formats in five case sizes, providing users with the highest levels of performance and flexibility at market competitive prices.
Ready to run, the new drives have three programmable digital inputs, an analogue input that is selectable for volts or amps, a programmable relay output, and a programmable analogue output. For basic pump and fan operation it only requires the setting of five basic parameters using the menu driven interface. Optidrive has four pre-set speeds and an auto-start function. Other features include skip frequencies, silent running in 32kHz mode and mains dip ride through.
AC drives are notoriously complicated to set-up, so user-friendliness was high on the list of priorities for the designers of Optidrive. A 'quick' set-up menu using only the 14 standard parameters, with plain English descriptions, allows the user to quickly configure the Optidrive. An extended menu with a further 26 parameters is available for more advanced set-ups.
Drive parameters can be modified via the unit's five-button front panel or using the unique and innovative Optiwand. This is a handheld remote control unit that employs infrared technology to communicate with the drive and/or a PC. The Optiwand has the same five-button layout as the drive and can store up to 63 complete Optidrive settings. Everything that can be done via the drive front-panel can also be done via the Optiwand, then subsequently 'downloaded ' to the Optidrive.
The new Optidrive fully supports International languages, so can be operated in French, German, Italian etc. The new drives are CE marked in accordance with the Low Voltage Directive and carry IEC, UL and EN approvals.
