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News Release from: SMC Corporation of America | Subject: Series SV solenoid valve
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2003
Easy integration for solenoid valve
The Series SV solenoid valve is designed for electronic and general machinery manufacturers.
The Series SV solenoid valve is designed for electronic and general machinery manufacturers The SV valve series features a modular design that allows modification of manifold stations by simply snapping them together
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 24 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The design of pneumatic and electrical connections of the manifold provides a "plug and play" concept for building the manifolds.
Rated IP65 and CE compliant, the SV valves are offered in both serial interface and parallel wiring configuration.
These units are particularly suitable for applications in semiconductor, food processing, automotive and metal working industries.
The SV valves have a life expectancy of 50 million cycles and are offered in four sises: SV1000, SV2000, SV3000, and SV4000 with flow capacity ranging from 0.23Cv up to 1.6Cv.
Dual 3 port valves in Series SV1000 and SV2000 allow individual control of A and B ports.
"The SV valves are truly plug-and-play.
Installation and upgrading are literally a snap with the elimination of the traditional lead wire internal wiring in favour of pin type connectors", Balaji Rao, Senior Product Manager for SMC explains.
"By connecting each manifold block with a pin connector, valve stations can be reconfigured simply by plugging and unplugging them".
For stackability, the units are available in two mounting options: a tie-rod configuration or a cassette configuration for use with DIN rails.
Up to 20 stations can be stacked together in a block (18 for the SV1000 cassette type).
"The whole process of installing and modifying these valves is so easy it can be done by someone with little or no technical background", says Rao.
Not only are these valves easy to use and install, but the use of serial interface protocols (also called fieldbus technologies) are quickly becoming the norm in automated plants these days.
The SV manifolds come with both centralised and decentralised type serial units.
The EX500 decentralised gateway/SI unit comes in DeviceNet, Profibus-DP and remote I/O protocols.
The gateway unit controls up to four branches with 32 I/Os per branch and is IP65 rated.
The EX250, centralised SI unit comes in DeviceNet, Profibus-DP, CC-Link and As-I protocols with 64 I/Os.
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