Water utilities require reliable solutions securing the flow of water and wastewater. The ACQ580 drive for water is part of ABB’s all-compatible drives portfolio. This robust drive is designed to secure optimal operation of water and wastewater pumps, while ensuring low energy consumption. Intended for the United States

This guide assists with the set up and use of the ACQ580 pump cleaning function in detail.

The VFD-Gateway has a way to let the Scanner PLC know about a Modbus drive Node Error over the Ethernet/IP network. This can be used for alarm handling in the Scanner or to alert the system when an issue arises.

Specification compliance for surge protection

There are many fan and pump applications where multiple sets of a drive and motor pairs operate where system redundancy is manually controlled. The software feature IPC in ACH580 and ACQ580 can be used to enhance the existing application to provide automatic redundancy. This technical note provides the details on how to program the drives to take advantage of this automatic system redundancy.

This document discusses the accuracy of the pulse train input detection on DI5 of the ACx580 drive.

ABB’s offering of control panel mounting kits for the 380, 580 and 880 series drives has been expanded to include the Type 4X / IP69k control panel mounting kit. The indoor-rated DPMP-08 panel holder is National Sanitation Foundation certified (NSF169) for splash zones. It provides protection from water spray and chemicals in clean room and unfriendly environments and is especially well suited for food processing plants, barns, chicken coops and water treatment plants.

Some issues can come up when trying to load firmware versions that are at revision 2.15 or greater for ACH580, ACS580 and ACQ580 six-pulse drives. Not all methods for loading these revisions of firmware are possible.

Many ABB drives are available with a Bluetooth capable control panel. This technical note explains how ABB’s implementation of Bluetooth provides excellent security measures.

This document discusses how to setup the motor preheat function.

This document discusses how to connect via ethernet with drive composer 2.8.2. The comm settings from the splash screen sometimes does not save, so it guides the user to a different place to enter in the IP addresses of the drives they wish to connect to.

This document is applicable for ACH580, ACQ580, and ACS580 drives and will show how to setup the ETM on the control panel’s home screen.

The technical note reviews the evolution of the UL 508C standard and the harmonization to the new UL 61800-5-1 standard. Specifically, the changes to the investigation and testing requirements for Power Conversion Equipment and the resulting impact on ratings for short circuit current (SCCR).

This document outlines how ABB recommends sizing VFDs for use in converting single-phase input to three-phase output for 460-480 V power systems for non-UL listed applications.

THHN wire is sometimes used on the output side of a VFD, between the drive and motor. While ABB allows THHN to be used for HVAC and water VFDs, we do not recommend it be used. This technical note reviews the concerns of THHN wire along with other solutions that are more appropriate for use with a VFD.

This document compares and contrasts IEC contactors with NEMA contactors for use in a VFD package. IEC contactors are acceptable for most most VFD bypass packages that are applied to pump and fan applications.