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Product category: Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: HID | Subject: QuickStart
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 13 February 2001

Software makes setting up drives really
easy

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HID has unveiled a very simple menu driven Windows based system called QuickStart, which makes setting up the Hitachi variable speed drives as easy as possible

The biggest growth in the use of AC inverters tends to come from the lower power ranges, say up to 7.5kW It is in this growing market that drives technology is probably least well understood

For this reason, HID Limited, Hitachi's global drives software development partner, has unveiled a new software package, called QuickStart, within the Hitachi Drive Manager suite, which makes setting up the Hitachi variable speed drives as easy as possible.

QuickStart is a very simple menu driven Windows based system that requires users to merely enter a few parameters into predefined boxes on screen.

Once they have set up the speed and run options, they simply add the maximum frequency, acceleration and deceleration rates using slider bars and then complete the set up by selecting the internal speed parameters as appropriate.

To load the program to the drive they simply click on "download to the inverter".

Existing programs can also be downloaded from the inverter for editing with the QuickStart program with a single on screen click.

All that is needed to take advantage of QuickStart is an inexpensive communications adaptor that connects the PC to the inverter.

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