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DC drives reduce energy consumption
Sprint Electric has supplied DC drives for retrofitting an obsolete embossing line for laminate manufacturing at Renolit Cramlington.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 May 2009
Sprint expands range of digital DC drives
Sprint Electric has brought out digital DC drives that function up to 1850A (800 KW/1080 HP).
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 February 2009
Sprint extends PLX digital DC drive range
Sprint Electric's two quadrant and four quadrant PLX digital DC drives are now available in models up to 1650 amps.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 October 2008
Digital drive range extends to 1050A
The PL/X range of digital drives offers compact design and powerful software on all models from 12A up to the new 1050A models.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 June 2008
PLA unit suits analogue or digital drives
The PLA includes Sprint Electrics PL Pilot configuration and monitoring software complete with PC to PLA programming lead.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 March 2008
Drives aid ship design
PLX65/155A operates a four-bladed impeller to achieve water velocities up to 8m/s at VT's cavitation tunnel.
News from Engineeringtalk, 18 September 2007
Motor controllers fit in small environments
The 340, 680 and 1220 controllers' slim design saves space and allows placement adjacent to other control panel components.
News from Engineeringtalk, 6 August 2007
New DC drives provided for steel mill
Sprint Electric provided a complete replacement for the control system at Graham Perry Steels.
News from Engineeringtalk, 31 January 2007
Drives help put fire pumps through their paces
When Hale Products had reliability problems with the test rigs for its Godiva fire pumps, the company upgraded to the latest digital PLX drive modules from Sprint Electric.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 October 2006
Regenerative DC drives boost energy efficiency
DC drives are designed to regenerate energy back into the mains supply under braking without the need for complex intermediate storage, resistive dumping or additional power bridges.
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 April 2006
Motor controllers mount the DIN rail
A versatile range of motor controllers is designed for permanent magnet or shunt wound DC motors in a compact, easy to use DIN rail mounting package.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 April 2006
DC drives still provide significant advantages
Sprint Electric is claiming a major development in DC drives technology with the release of its PLX range.
News from Engineeringtalk, 22 July 2005
Compact DC drives cover four quadrants
Sprint Electric's 340XRi, 680XRi and 1220XRi DC drives offer a solution to four quadrant regenerative drive applications.
News from Engineeringtalk, 2 May 2005
DC drives take centre stage in Norway
Sprint Electric DC drives were recently installed in the stage control system at Det Norske Teatret (The Norwegian Theatre), a major theatre in Oslo, Norway.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 March 2005
DC drives save space for panel builders
With a footprint of just 35 x 105mm, Sprint Electric's new range of DC drives claim to fit easily into existing control panel or save space in new designs.
News from Engineeringtalk, 22 December 2004
HMIs simplify DC drive control
Sprint Electric has a range of human machine interfaces for its popular ranges of PL and PLX digital DC drives.
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 May 2003
DC drive communicates in many languages
Sprint Electric has further enhanced its state of the art PLX digital DC drive with the addition of an Ethernet, CANopen, DeviceNet and Profibus DP communications capability.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 February 2003
Fast-response DC drive for battery-powered uses
The 200XLV is a miniature, fast response DC motor speed controller for driving brushed DC motors, gear-motors, low inductance printed motors and linear actuators rated up to 100W.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 April 2002
DC drives to give precise control for theatre
A major Swedish theatre has recently installed a new state of the art scenery handling system using 45 Sprint Electric PLX DC drives to give the smooth, precise control required for rapid set changes
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 January 2002
DC drives selection made easier by CD-Rom
A wealth of useful information and software for the selection, specification and configuration of DC drives has been crammed on to a new CD-Rom by Sprint Electric.
News from Engineeringtalk, 7 November 2001
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