Drives across the sea to Ireland

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 25, 2002

Automated Components Ireland has been appointed as Ireland's sole distributor for the AC Tech range of micro and submicro AC drives with ratings from 0.18 to 18.5kW.

Automated Components Ireland has been appointed as Ireland's sole distributor for the AC Tech range of micro and submicro AC drives with ratings from 0.18 to 18.5kW.

The distributorship provides industrial companies involved in automated and clean room production processes with easy access to AC Tech's highly functional and extremely cost effective range of AC Drive products as well as professional sales and service.

Operating from a 1000m2 facility in Lucan, Co Dublin, Automated Components Ireland (ACI) is perfectly situated to supply AC Tech's cost effective and easy to use drives to companies across Ireland.

ACI can supply the complete range of drives over the counter or as part of a complete system design and on-site installation service carried out by its teams of in-house engineers.

ACI specialises in supplying automated control systems to the packaging, pharmaceutical, electronics and food industries.

Due to these areas of expertise, AC Tech's MC series drive will prove to be one of the more popular products in the range as its stainless-steel housing is IP65 rated, guaranteeing performance even when subjected to water, dust, oil and other contaminants.

ACI is also confident about the success AC Tech's SC range, seeing the drives as a unique product due to their high levels of functionality and ease of programming, facilitated by the revolutionary EPM programming module.

The module featured on the range is a removable chip that saves both maintenance and set up time by enabling the installer to program one drive, remove the memory chip, and copy the information across to installed units without the need for mains connection.

Michael McHugh, Managing Director of ACI, explained that: "The AC Tech range of drives have allowed us to provide a economic and effective replacement to mechanical speed controls used in systems, which previously relied upon bulky gear boxes and friction clutches.

Aimed at OEM designers, the range fills a gap in the market for drives at a competitive enough in price to encourage use on these simpler applications as well as having the flexibility, in the case of the SCD range, to integrate machines into a wider plant control system via DeviceNet connection".

AC Tech's SC and MC series offer an easy manual setup option via LCDs and keys positioned on the front of the units.

Just a start command and a speed reference will start the motor running and by using the functions on the front of the drive, they can be easily configured for almost any motor control requirement, including reversing, jogging and multispeed operation.

Drives up to 18.5kW are available from ACI off-the-shelf and are suitable for use in 115-590V single- and three-phase applications.

Automated Components Ireland is part of the Pak Automation Group of Companies.