Posted August 07, 2020
There's no such thing as a free ABB Ability™ Smart Sensor! Oh yes there is! In order to promote the ABB Ability™ Smart Sensor to a wider audience, ABB is planning to run a promotion for all ABB motor Value Providers to fit a sensor - free of charge -... [Details]
Posted July 24, 2020
So take a look at us now! The unique industry specific features of ABB's ACQ580 range of variable speed drives made them first choice when a water company was looking to upgrade 3 older inverters. The triumphant triumvirate of 45kW drives were retrofitted into panels previously fitted with ACS600 drives (which... [Details]
Posted July 21, 2020
Sometimes, all you need is the air that you breathe... EDC North East engineers recently installed a ABB 22kW variable speed drive to control a vessel’s breathing air compressor, used to fill diving cylinders with oxygen.Replacing the existing and ageing star delta starter, the VSD now allows the unit to load... [Details]
Posted July 14, 2020
Mixing it up with ABB and EDC NE. The EDC North east engineers recently replaced a drive on an industrial chemical mixer application which was costing their customer in lost production. The newly installed ABB drive takes up less space and comes with a host of additional (and beneficial) features, which future... [Details]
Posted July 07, 2020
'Digging deep' to help a customer save energy, EDC NE has been making good use of ABB's innovative drive software to reduce energy costs and keep production running. EDC North East recently installed and commissioned a master/follower VSD set up on a cement kiln at a customer’s quarry.Using ABB’s onboard adaptive... [Details]
Posted June 26, 2020
Like a bridge over excessive wattage, we will ease your mind... Bridge the gaps in your income caused by costly energy use by having EDC Scotland carry out a free, no-obligation, energy survey. This can highlight how genuine savings can be made. Make unnecessary full speed running, hard stopping and... [Details]
Posted June 18, 2020
Stopping the hammering! This trio of ABB ACQ580 variable speed drives, serving 3 pumps, will be pumping up the volume and taming the transients on a water site this week. Maintaining pressure at around (or below) 0.5 bar, they'll eliminate water hammer and stabilise flow. Replacing the old pressure switch... [Details]
Posted May 06, 2020
Were there but world enough, and time, a lack of drives might just be fine... But because there isn’t and it’s not, EDC - your only Scottish ABB Value Provider for drives - is still repairing customers' variable speed drives. These units have just completed their bench tests with our... [Details]
Posted May 01, 2020
The ultra-plain exterior of these panels hides an ultra-technical interior, with ABB ACQ580 drives created especially for the water and wastewater industry. Well, they may be plain on the outside, but inside our 'Janes’ are anything but unremarkable. Powerful, beautifully designed and very smart the ACQ580s can even calculate the... [Details]
Posted April 28, 2020
In praise of older drives! Our ‘Island Girl inverter’, who is involved in whisky production on a Scottish island, is now over 25 years old. She’s an ACS601 drive, from the impeccable ABB stable. EDC engineers visit her and her colleagues annually as part of a drive care service contract. ... [Details]
