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Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: WEG Electric Motors (UK)
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 March 2003
Distribution for latest inverter range
BSL is to distribute WEG's latest range of AC inverter drives across the UK.
WEG's highly successful partnership with BSL for the distribution of high efficiency electric motors has received a further boost with the concluding of a new deal for BSL to distribute WEG's new range of AC inverter drives, nationally "This agreement is a tremendous vote of confidence in our new drive range", commented Graham Perry, WEG's Manager for Drive Products
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"It also underlines the value we are offering the drives market at very competitive price.
Our partnership with BSL for electric motors is already a real success story, and one which will now be extended further with BSL able to offer an optimised WEG drive/motor package at competitive cost and with single source responsibility".
The BSL executive responsible for the new agreement is Chris Davies, Manager of Industrial Automation and Drives.
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BSL already supply many of our motor customers with the WEG brand due to its quality and value for money.
We are therefore delighted to extend our WEG drives offering to include the inverter and soft starter range of products.
This will enable customers to fully integrate their WEG motor and drive systems and reap the resultant benefits in efficiency and cost savings".
The focus of the new partnership is the new CFW-08 and CFW-09 ranges of drives.
Both are 100% manufactured by WEG and complement the company's already highly successful range of high efficiency motors.
They cater for OEM and user requirements at both the low end and high ends of the control market, offering high levels of functionality across the power range from 0.25 to 700kW.
The smaller drive in the WEG range, the CFW-08, is proof positive that users don't have to compromise on drive size, performance, ease-of- use or price.
Catering for single phase applications from 0.25 to 2.2kW, and three-phase applications from 0.25 to 7.5kW, the highly compact CFW-08 integrates the latest digital signal processor control and 16bit space vector modulation for optimum waveform generation and quiet operation.
The CFW-09 Vectrue inverter is the more highly functioned drive in the new WEG range, integrating selectable, V/F, sensorless vector and closed loop vector operation in a single product.
Essentially one drive for all types of applications, the CFW-09 offers high performance across the power range from 1.1 to 1000kW, courtesy of its powerful 32bit RISC microprocessor.
The level of control provided by this unit ensures the fastest dynamic response and absolute control of speed and torque in the most demanding of applications such as winding/rewinding, mixing, dosing and forming.
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