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Offline metalninjadragon

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Electric Motors & VFDs
« on: October 09, 2014, 11:58:35 PM »
I recently got a project to develop an interface to a variable frequency drive for a complex system
(I can't tell you what but it is not an HVAC or water treatment application)

I know Danfoss has a line of VFD's is there any integration with the Plus+1 environment.
Ideally, I'd like work in this environment to maintain compatibility with some of our other products, but I'm kind of nervous about tackling CANOpen protocols in Guide, I think I might need a more traditional C environment for that.

thoughts? has anyone else been down this road?


Offline oiltronic

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Re: Electric Motors & VFDs
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2014, 04:25:28 PM »
I didn't know that Danfoss makes VFD's, but I do know that there is no integration with the Plus+1 environment.  Plus+1 is targeted for mobile hydraulic machinery, usually far away from the land of VFD's.  I'm sure the two Danfoss divisions have never met, let alone tried to integrate things.

I program in C as well as the Plus+1 environment, and making reliable custom CANOpen communications is actually pretty fast & easy in Plus+1.  Drawing the 'code' to pack & unpack all the flags and data can certainly get tedious though.

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Re: Electric Motors & VFDs
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2014, 04:58:50 PM »
Hello!

Sry for the late reply. But probably this can help:
Schwarzmüller Inverter (member of Danfoss PS Group) offers Inverter (low voltage Level VFD's for mobile applications).

This Inverters are fully programmable with PLUS+1 GUIDE.

Kind regards, Benedikt



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Re: Electric Motors & VFDs
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2014, 05:12:34 PM »
It would be nice if Danfoss would make a driver of some type that could feed into a off the shelf high voltage VFD  8).  Even in mobile systems, I still use high voltage motors.

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Re: Electric Motors & VFDs
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2023, 03:36:20 PM »
Hi,

In a project we are using the Schwarzmuller MI08 inverter.
I was not able to find the Schwarmuller hardware file on update center.
Anyone has a link for this file?

Greetings