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danr40
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RE: PowerFlex 525 F004 undervoltage on several drives at the same second

Same second means the supply, not a drive. What else starts at those times? Anything big on the same transformer, a compressor, a chiller, an oven?

2 hours ago
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RE: Star-delta, soft starter or VFD for a 45 kW compressor

Agree. One caveat: if a second compressor ever turns up and one becomes the trim unit, that's where the 30 percent lives, and that one gets the VFD. N...

3 hours ago
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RE: Light curtain muting trips on every second pallet on the exit conveyor, mute lamp flickers

There's your flicker. The mute holds while both sensors are made in the right order. With 36in between sensors and a 40in load with a gap in it, the g...

5 hours ago
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RE: PowerFlex 525 faults overcurrent whenever the e-stop opens the output contactor

The drive is still switching when that contactor opens under load. Current interrupted mid cycle, then the contacts bounce and the motor reconnects wi...

6 hours ago
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RE: Light curtain OSSD into a 1769-IQ16 chatters every few seconds, curtain never trips

The curtain is checking itself, and it's fine. OSSD outputs drop low for a very short pulse every so often, that's how the curtain proves the output s...

7 hours ago
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RE: PowerFlex 755 input phase loss fault on a hot afternoon

You measured with the drive off, at the breaker. Measure under load, at the drive's input terminals. And what's between the breaker and the drive, fus...

8 hours ago
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RE: Star-delta, soft starter or VFD for a 45 kW compressor

The VFD quote. What's the compressor controller doing, load and unload on a switch and nothing else? A VFD on a load-unload screw with no way to modul...

13 hours ago
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RE: Light curtain muting trips on every second pallet on the exit conveyor, mute lamp flickers

Shorter pallets is the change, start there. How far apart are the two muting sensors, and how long is the new pallet load. And is the load solid down ...

14 hours ago
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RE: SICK light curtain won't reset, one beam blocked by the new guard bracket

Then the curtain is right and the rep is wrong about alignment. A beam with steel in it is a blocked beam. Two ways out. Move the bracket. Or fixed b...

20 hours ago
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RE: Roof fan VFD trips overcurrent at start when the wind is up

The drive starts at 0 Hz and expects a stopped motor. Yours is a generator at minus 300 rpm. The first PWM pulses hit a spinning rotor with its own ba...

20 hours ago