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Industrial Drive Offers Built-in Fuse Disconnect

ABB’s ACS580 variable-frequency drive is not only protected in extreme environments, it also provides an alternative to a separate protected fuse box.

ABB ACS580 variable-frequency drive
At IPPE in Atlanta, ABB showed how its ACS580 UL Type 4X drive can handle extreme rain and washdown situations.
Aaron Hand

At the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, ABB was attracting attention by running a steady stream of water over one of the drives in its booth. The ACS580 UL Type 4X drive can handle extreme rain and washdown situations, along with heat, cold, salt spray, dust, and humidity. This makes it a good fit not only for the poultry farming and processing that IPPE is known for, but any kind of food and beverage applications facing washdown, splashing, and exposure to common sanitizers.

The ACS580 variable-frequency drive has optional integrated lockable UL98 line disconnect and fuses.The ACS580 variable-frequency drive has optional integrated lockable UL98 line disconnect and fuses.ABBIt is not uncommon for a drive to be made to work in a washdown area, however. What is uncommon is for that drive to have an optional disconnect that eliminates the need for a separate fuse box, explains Adam Bainbridge, product manager for machinery drives at ABB. “Instead of having to install a drive and then still wire everything back to the cabinet or still wire a separate fuse box right next to it, it’s all built into one,” he explains. “In the past, you might have a drive that could handle a washdown, but then you’ve got to worry about a fuse box that can also handle it. Or you would have to go back to some other control cabinet. This eliminates all of that.”

The optional robustly integrated lockable UL98 line disconnect and fuses allow the variable-frequency drive assembly to maintain 100 kA SCCR and meet the “in line of sight” NEC disconnect requirements to simplify installation and increase safety. The drive is equipped with a standard Bluetooth control panel, facilitating seamless and secure connectivity, commissioning, and monitoring through ABB apps like Drivetune and Drive Composer. The drive also features an optimized DC choke to mitigate harmonics, two option slots for expanding connectivity through fieldbus and additional I/O, and an optional sun shield helps further protect the UV-resistant drive.

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