ABB general purpose drives make motor and process control easy for any user.
Effortless energy efficiency is the best way to describe the new ACS580, ABB's new all-compatible general purpose drive. Through drive selection, set up, operation and maintenance, the ACS580 turns complicated to simple to control processes efficiently.
The drive is virtually plug-in-ready to control pumps, fans, conveyors, mixers and many other variable and basic constant-torque applications, while requiring very little time for set up and commissioning. All essential features are built-in, making drive selection and use easy, and giving users better management and savings of precious energy.
The ACS580 power range is 0.75 to 250 kW and voltage range is 208 to 480 V.
The drive becomes an energy-saving tool
The drive controls the process more energy efficiently based on actual need, rather than fixed-speed and mechanical flow control often used in applications like pumps and fans. An energy optimizer feature ensures maximum torque per ampere and reducing energy drawn from the supply. The drive supports different motors, including high-efficiency permanent magnet motors.
The kWh counters monitor hourly, daily and cumulative energy consumption of the drive. The energy saving calculators show savings for energy, CO2 emissions, money when the drive replaces other control methods (eg. direct-online). This makes it easy to see how fast the drive brings a rapid return on investment.
Easy and intuitive user interfaces
The control panel and PC tool simplify the use of the drive. A user can use his native language as the drive supports more than 20 languages. The control panel's settings menu and built-in assistants speed up commissioning. Each menu is clearly named by function, such as motor, ramp and limit settings. The basic set up is done in minutes. The I/O menu shows how the electrical terminals are configured, and gives quick access to related terminal settings like filtering, scaling, delay or function selections.
The Drive composer PC tool provides extensive drive monitoring and process tuning capabilities. The entry-level version of Drive composer is available for free via the ABB website. Drive composer pro provides advanced features such graphical control diagrams that help users set the drive's logic quickly.
All features built-in
All the essential features are built into the drive as standard, reducing the need to deal with external components, extra cabling and space restrictions. The drive provides reduced harmonics with built-in second-generation swinging choke technology in a smaller and lighter design. Other built-in features include EMC filter, brake chopper up to frame R3, Modbus RTU fieldbus interface and safe torque off.
The drive's capability can be extended with optional plug-in modules. A wide range of fieldbus adapters can easily be mounted inside the drive allowing connectivity to all the major industrial fieldbus protocols. The standard I/O can be extended by using optional analog and digital extension modules. .
.Standard software with versatile featuresThe drive's advanced software improves process control. A built-in, stand-alone process PID controller makes the ACS580 a self-governing unit requiring only an external process measurement.
For pumping applications the sleep mode momentarily elevates levels or pressures, thus extending the sleep mode to save energy. The drive reduces motor noise by spreading the switching frequencies over a user-specified range. The higher used switching frequency reduces motor noise at low load without limiting full current at maximum load.
All-compatible drives architecture for scalability without adding complexity
The ACS580 general purpose drives are part of ABB's all-compatible drives portfolio, offering customers scalability without adding complexity. The ABB all-compatible drives share the same user interfaces and options, meaning once a user has experienced one all-compatible drive, they will be able to quickly adopt and use others, such as the ACS880 industrial drives. With each new installation, the customer builds knowledge. The result is saved effort, energy and money.
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 140,000 people.
