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Soft Start Drives - The soft
start technology constantly monitors the voltage and current
going to the motor. Some of the Applications for soft
start technology includes compressors, conveyors, pumps, saws,
mixers, shredders, and injection molding machines. The
advantages of soft starts are a reduced wear on mechanical
gears, chains and sprockets, and unexpected repair of broken
belts and jammed gearboxes, lower inventory of spare mechanical
parts and operating costs, increased production rates, prolonged
life of electrical switchgear with lower inrush currents, soft
stops on pumping applications and energy optimizing reduces
motor energy losses when operating motor below maximum capacity.
Soft Start Drive Web Sites:
Soft Start Drives
- By the Three Phase Electricity Specialist.
Site covers the Baldor, TEMCo and WEG Soft Start Drive brands
and the differences between these and VFDs and Inverters.
Variable Frequency Drive Web Sites:
Variable Frequency Drives
- An overview on how to
application and development of variable frequency drives. Also get a complete list of motor controls and drives.
Variable
Frequency Drive Co (VFDs) - The Variable
frequency drive co is an educational site that provides
customers and visitors with quality information about products
and services, variable frequency drives, ac variable frequency
drives and variable frequency drive motors.
Soft Start Drives - Reducing energy consumption
in the United States has became a priority. Businesses are
looking for solutions to help save energy. One way is to
do this is to use a soft start drive. A soft start drive
starts the motor at a lower voltage, slowly ramping up to
operation voltage. Find out more soft start drive
advantages by clicking on the link.
Variable Frequency Drive Related Web Sites:
The US
Phase Converter Standards Organization
Review of
VFD
"Phase Converters"
- VFDs, also known as variable frequency drives can
be used to control motor only type of loads. They cannot be used
for any type of non-motor 3 phase load. Find out more about VFD
Phase Converters from the US Phase Converter Standards
Organization website.
Related Categories:
VFDs as Phase Converters - There are three ways
that you can convert 1P to 3P. You can use a static converter,
rotary converter or a VFD. Find out why choosing a VFDs as a
phase converter has its disadvantages.
Electric Motors - Electric motors convert electrical
energy into kinetic energy. Electric motors have rotating coils
of wire which are operated by the magnetic force exerted by a
magnetic field on an electric current.
Rotary Frequency Converters
Read about the different options for converting 50 Hz, 60 Hz
and 400 Hz
power to a different frequency
static phase converters,
CNC phase converters, and details about
"build your own phase converter plans".
Parent Category:
Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) -
A special type of
adjustable-speed drive that regulates the rotational speed of an
AC electric motor by governing how often electrical power is
delivered to the motor.
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