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VARRIBLE SPEED DRIVES
Low-voltage Drives
Find the ideal drive for your variable speed motor control or power conversion application, along with options and accessories.
VLT® drives
VLT® AutomationDrive FC 301 / FC 302
Efficient, reliable and consistently awesome
Built to last, this robust drive operates effectively and reliably even with the most demanding applications and in the most challenging environments.
VLT® AutomationDrive takes full advantage of all that the new digital age has to offer to ensure it completely fulfills the requirements of your applications and optimizes your processes throughout the entire lifecycle.
Its cutting-edge thermal design and unique back-channel cooling make VLT® AutomationDrive one of the most compact and cost-efficient drives in the market. Intelligent maintenance and monitoring functions improve the productivity, performance, and uptime of your systems in the long term.
VLT® HVAC Drive FC 102
Get even more drive in your HVAC – with rock-bottom lifecycle costs in any climate
Get even higher reliability and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) in your heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) installations, with this unique VSD optimized for building automation systems.
More than ever, the extreme climates, inaccessible machine rooms and isolated outposts of our planet need the best process control there is for their HVAC installations. Your everyday critical functions and costly systems need it too, as they face ever-increasing competition and efficiency demands. Always with high performance in mind, the enhanced VLT® HVAC Drive gives you more room to maneuver. It confronts the issues and gives you rock-solid reliability. With rock-bottom lifecycle costs too.
VLT® AQUA Drive FC 202
Maximum energy efficiency for water and wastewater applications
The VLT® AQUA Drive is designed to provide the highest level of performance of AC-motor-driven water and wastewater applications. Featuring a wide range of powerful standard features, which can be expanded with performance-improving options, the drive is equally suited to both new and retrofit projects.
The considerable daily load variation in water or wastewater treatment plants makes it economically feasible to introduce motor control on rotating equipment such as pumps and blowers. VLT AQUA Drive can offer first-year cost savings of between 10–30% compared to traditional variable speed drive solutions. Its high lifetime availability and low energy consumption and maintenance costs provide you with the lowest cost of ownership.
The quick and user-friendly setup of water and pump settings reduces installation time ensuring a fast route to maximum energy efficiency and motor control. By collecting the most important parameters in one place, the risk of incorrect configuration is reduced significantly.
VLT® HVAC Basic Drive FC 131
Convenient and compact control for HVAC
Optimized for robust, basic operation of fans, pumps, and compressors, the VLT® HVAC Basic Drive has built-in functions that reduce initial costs and increase productivity. This user-friendly drive is the most compact unit in its class.
- Integrated DC coils reduce harmonics without the extra cost and space required for external devices
- VLT® Control Panel LCP 32 makes it easier to program the drive, with a choice of 8 languages in the display
VLT® HVAC Basic Drive FC 101 efficiently controls induction and permanent-magnet (PM) motors and can deliver up to 50% energy savings. In fact, the Automatic Energy Optimizer saves 3-5% energy from the second you turn it on. Achieve the lowest cost of ownership with a drive dedicated to ventilation, heating, and refrigeration applications.
VLT® Micro Drive FC 51
Maximum strength with reduced installation costs
The VLT® Micro Drive FC 51 is small and yet powerful and built to last. Panel space can be saved and installation costs reduced thanks to its compact size and minimal commissioning requirements.
Despite its compact size and easy commissioning, the VLT® Micro Drive can be set up to perform perfectly even in complex applications. It is supported by guided programming of specific functions and the use of a PC software tool for parameterizing. And, thanks to its coated PCBs, the drive ensures reliable and cost-effective operation also in demanding environments.
VLT® Refrigeration Drive FC 103
Save energy and extend the lifetime of refrigeration applications
The VLT® Refrigeration Drive FC 103 is designed to help significantly reduce the lifecycle costs of your refrigeration systems. It offers efficiency- and reliability-enhancing features, integrated process control functions and a commissioning environment specially designed to meet the needs of refrigeration applications. It also features a setup Wizard which uses common refrigeration terms. This makes installation and commissioning easy and safe for refrigeration technicians and installers.
The continuous variable speed control provided by the VLT Refrigeration Drive makes intelligent capacity control possible. By creating stability while balancing the capacity to the actual load, system-wide coefficient of performance improves providing significant energy savings in a wide range of applications.
The drive contains all modules necessary for compliance with EMC standards. The integrated, scalable RFI filter minimizes electromagnetic interference, and the integral DC link chokes reduce harmonic distortion in the mains network. As these features are built into the drive in the factory, cabinet space can be reduced. Efficient EMC mitigation also enables the use of cables with small cross sections which reduces installation costs.
VLT® Midi Drive FC 280
Flexible, communicative and easy to use. Fits your application
Reach new levels of performance with the VLT® Midi Drive FC 280, the evolution of the popular VLT® 2800 drive. Profit from new savings with a wide range of features designed to make installing, using and maintaining the AC drive as simple and as easy as possible.
For precise and efficient motor control for machine builders in the food and beverage, material handling and processing industries, the VLT® Midi Drive is ideal. It is strong on control performance, functional safety and flexible fieldbus communication.
VACON® drives
VACON® NXP Air Cooled
Precise and powerful performance
VACON® NXP Air Cooled drives offer precision and power to applications that require a robust and dynamic performance. Available in a complete power range up to 2 MW, they are provided as wall-mounted, standalone enclosed and IP00 modules.
The drives provide optimized motor control for both induction and permanent magnet motors, and gearless drive applications and paralleling solutions for high-power motors. Fast fieldbus options and exceptional programming flexibility ensure the drives are easily integrated into any plant’s automation system. Engineering time and costs can be saved due to the high number of standardized options and reduced system complexity.
VACON® 100 FLOW
Dedicated functionality for pumps, fans and compressors
VACON® 100 FLOW is an AC drive that is dedicated to improving flow control and saving energy in industrial pump and fan applications.
Specifically designed features include Multipump solutions and application selection menus. They enhance pump performance and protect pipes and equipment to ensure reliable operation. Standard PID control uses a sensor to control pump speed instead of an external controller. This helps the drive to quickly react to fluctuations in demand for accurate process control and optimized energy savings.
iC2-Micro
Performance that pays off
This quality general purpose drive is a perfect match for a wide range of applications. iC2-Micro performs with unsurpassed reliability even in complex applications. It gives you user-friendliness, condensed functionality, and easy commissioning, all in a powerful compact package.
More compact, intelligent, and powerful than its predecessor, the iC2-Micro is designed as an easy replacement for VLT® Micro Drive FC 51. This reliable and durable drive is even easier to use and install. You can reduce system complexity and cost whilst maintaining full performance.
This drive gives you excellent motor control and mechanical brake performance. New features include torque open loop control, locked motor detection, permanent magnet motor control, built-in control panel and, of course, connectivity with the Danfoss MyDrive® Suite digital tools.
SOFT STARTERS
VLT® Compact Starter MCD 201 and MCD 202
Compact but powerful soft starters
Two series of soft starters that provide a total motor starting solution for motors up to 110 kW. The MCD 201 compact starter offers efficient motor-starting features, while the extended MCD 202 version of the compact starter provides enhanced soft-start functionality and additional motor-protection features.
The series of soft starters offer easy DIN rail mounting for sizes up to 30 kW, 2-wire or 3-wire start/stop control and excellent starting duty (4 x le for 6 seconds; heavy starting ratings at 4 x le for 20 seconds). They are compatible with grounded delta power systems.
VLT® Soft Starter MCD 600
Superior soft start performance for fixed-speed applications
The VLT® Soft Starter MCD 600 combines the latest in advanced controls and protections with an increased level of intelligence for superior performance in fixed-speed applications.
The MCD 600 is more flexible than ever to install, thanks to a wide variety of Ethernet and serial-based communication option cards, application-dedicated smart cards and support for eight languages.
An integrated bypass ensures both extremely high efficiency and harmonic-free operation at full speed, reducing energy consumed and required cooling capacity. Ease of use is in focus with features such as the pump-clean function, Power through operation, and calendar or run time-based scheduling. More extensive motor and starter protections ensure more uptime.
Gear Motors
VLT® OneGearDrive®
One Gear Drive Selection Guide
An energy-efficient drive system
The VLT® OneGearDrive® is a highly efficient, permanent magnet, three-phase synchronous motor coupled with an optimized bevel gear box and IE5 ultra premium efficiency which helps to optimize plant productivity and reduce energy costs.
With only one motor type and three available gear ratios, the motor concept covers all typical versions of conveyor drives commonly used in the food and beverage industry. The reduced range of physical configurations reduces costs and simplifies spare-part storage. Uniform mechanical dimensions reduce engineering and installation time and costs.
The drive comes in two versions: Standard for use in dry and wet production areas and Hygienic for use in wet areas and environments with high cleaning intensity including aseptic and cleanroom production areas.