High-Power Field Controller enhances DC drive capabilities.

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Using 3-phase supply power to provide controlled DC field current, QLX works with armature controller for field control functions. Model range spans currents from 12-2,250 A, with full digital control and nominal communications facilities. Supplied in 5 frame sizes, products offer Field Reversal and Auto Field Weakening for high-power fields as well as built-in Standby Field mode. Digital functions include field bus options such as Profibus, DeviceNet, CanOpen, Modbus TCP/IP, EtherNet.



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New High Power Field Controller from Sprint Electric



Arundel, England. Sprint Electric has added 3 phase field controllers to the product range of DC drives for control of high current excitation fields on DC motors. The new product with the brand name QLX will be introduced in November at SPS/IPC/Drives, the international trade fair for electric automation, systems and components, in Nuremberg, Germany.

The QLX uses 3 phase supply power to provide a controlled DC field current. It will work with the armature controller to provide all usual field control functions including field reversal. The model range spans currents from 12 to 2250 Amps, with fully digital control and all the usual communications facilities. QLX 3 phase field controllers are ideal for controlling the high current excitation fields of DC motors used in applications such as a hot rolling mill and steel handling.

The QLX 3 phase field controller has the same digital functions as Sprint Electric's established PLX range of DC drives, including field bus options such as Profibus, DeviceNet, CanOpen, Modbus TCP/IP, EtherNet etc. The QLX range consists of five frame sizes with the maximum current capability of up to 2250 Amps. It offers Field Reversal and Auto Field Weakening for high power fields. It also has a built-in Standby Field mode. For start and stop functions, the QLX directly interfaces with the main armature controller such as the PLX or other. It cost-effectively adds reversing to large DC motors where the facility does not already exist, or exists only with contactors.

Sprint Electric offers a wide range of DC motor control, with over 150 models covering both 1 phase and 3 phase, regenerative and non-regenerative DC motor applications, together with digital slip ring motor controllers. Sprint Electric's full range of products include analogue and digital DC drives from 12 up to 2250 Amps. Whether in retrofits or original equipment, DC drives from Sprint Electric are being used in many different applications including metal processing, the pulp and paper industry, rubber and plastic processing, lifting equipment, food processing, leisure industries and many more.

Sprint Electric at SPS/IPC/Drives, international trade fair for electric automation, systems and components, in Nuremberg, Germany, 22 to 24 November 2011: Hall 1 Stand 518

About Sprint Electric:
Sprint Electric Ltd., based in England and founded in 1987, offers a wide range of DC motor control, with over 150 models covering both single phase and three phase, regenerative and non-regenerative DC motor applications together with digital slip ring motor controllers. From low voltage servo performance controller to highly sophisticated fully digital three phase DC variable speed drive of many hundreds of amps, Sprint Electric products meet the demands of countless industrial applications around the globe. Sprint Electric is committed to providing innovative products backed up by a high level of customer service to the world-wide industrial market. For its outstanding success in international trade, Sprint Electric won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in April 2009, one of the most prestigious business awards in the U.K. In the USA, Sprint Electric products are available through Bardac Corporation.

Distributor in the USA:
Bardac Corporation
40 Log Canoe Circle
Stevensville, Maryland 21666
Tel: 888 604 3400
E-mail: info@bardac.com
Internet: www.bardac.com

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