FIT AND FORGET DRIVE FOR TOUGH DUTIES
October 2004

New from Silverteam is a range of drives sealed to IP54 and featuring an integrated Class B EMC filter, providing an out-of-the-box inverter solution for HVAC, building services, food and drink, and water treatment applications, as well as many other general purpose industrial tasks.

Available in powers from 0.4kW to 132kW, the Hitachi L100IP and L300IP combine ease of use with high levels of functionality, and offer a number of modular options to allow the products to be tailored to the requirements of the application.

Silverteam is Hitachi’s sole agent for drives and automation products in the UK. Managing Director Stuart Harvey comments: “The likes of building services and water treatment applications are big potential markets, but they place particular requirements of drives in terms of environmental protection and expected simplicity of installation and set up. With the L100IP and L300IP, you can take the drive straight out of the box, bolt it to the wall, add the mains supply and motor cables, and away you go.”

The L100IP is available in powers from 0.4kW to 2.2kW for 200V single-phase supplies, and in powers from 0.7kW to 7.5kW for 400V three-phase supplies. The L300IP extends powers to 132kW for 400V three-phase supplies. Both provide advanced features such as motor synchronisation, PID control, automatic energy saving and user macro functions.

A user-friendly, integrated display makes it simple to adjust parameters on the fly, whilst the in-built RS422/485 communications interface allows a standard PC to be connected for set-up and commissioning in Windows-based programming software.

The RS422/485 interfaces also allow ready connection to a PLC or other control equipment, whilst fieldbus interfaces for Profibus, LonWorks, DeviceNet and others are available as modular options. Further options include a harmonic line reactor, and an embedded PLC board which turns the drive into a powerful, single box, control system.

The L100IP and L300IP conform to a range of global standards, including CE, UL, c-UL and CTick, allowing their use anywhere in the world.