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Pneumatic Valves and Controls
News Release from: Festo | Subject: VTSA valve terminal
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 January 2008
Valve terminal cuts component count for
designers
Festo's VTSA valve terminal is supplied as a fully assembled and pre-tested unit, enabling users to effectively replace an entire control panel with a single order.
Festo has released a highly configurable valve terminal that offers major cost-saving advantages to automation designers and builders, who can now standardise on fewer components to reduce their spares inventory and to lower service costs The VTSA valve terminal can accommodate up to 32 ISO standard 18, 26 and 42mm valves and allows any combination of these valves to be mounted on the same manifold
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Festo's VTSA valve terminal is supplied as a fully assembled and pre-tested unit, enabling users to effectively replace an entire control panel with a single order.
The valve terminal is fully compliant with the new ISO 15407-2 standard, which defines the mounting interface and electrical connections for five-port pneumatic directional control valves and was developed to harmonise the platform for VDMA standard 01 and 02 sized valves, which are now known as 26 and 18mm valves.
VTSA valve terminals feature robust, all-metal sub-base modules and employ generously proportioned air ducts designed to maximise flow rate.
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Festo offers a wide range of compatible 5/3, 5/2 and dual 3/2 valves, all of which have an operating pressure range of -0.9 to 10 bar.
The valves are available in 18, 26 and 42mm sizes, with flow rates of 550, 1100 and 1500litres/min.
All three valve series offer a choice of 24V DC and 110V AC solenoids for maximum application flexibility and can be configured so that their breathing ports vent into the exhaust port instead of into the atmosphere, making them suitable for use in clean air environments such as food processing plants.
The VTSA valve terminal allows the valves to be oriented so that all pneumatic and electrical connections are accessed from one side of the unit.
This leads to a very clean installation, which requires less physical space and simplifies servicing.
Furthermore, the valves all feature front-panel LEDs and the pressure regulators are equipped with swivelling pressure gauges, making it easy for operators to see the overall system status from a single viewpoint.
The VTSA valve terminal can have individual electrical connections, multipin connection or can integrate directly with Festo's CPX terminal controller, which is a modular hub with an Ethernet interface and extensive fieldbus protocol support.
The controller enables advanced remote diagnostics capabilities to be easily incorporated into factory-wide local area networks, to provide centralised control and monitoring of individual valve performance.
Local diagnostics can either be performed using the valves' front panel LEDs, or via Festo's CPX-MMI handheld control unit. Request a free brochure from Festo ...
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