Posted September 13, 2019
To drive or not to drive? That is the question: whether it’s smarter to suffer pressure transients, or to install ABB ACQ580 drives with PID control, and, by their utilisation, maintain system pressure, avoid pump switching transients and stop the over pressuring of your system. An EDC built panel comprising... [Details]
Posted September 06, 2019
Sometimes staff need to be told just how well they've done. And this was very eloquently put by a caller to EDC... "I recently went up in my loft to read the meter on my Solar PV system, only to discover it registered only about 150 since early July. In a... [Details]
Posted September 05, 2019
Portable, powerful and plentiful : EDC North East ABB hire drives. This ACQ580 drive is part of the fleet of ABB hire drives, common to ABB drive value providers. Often our engineers can fix drive breakdowns on site, using our bespoke ABB service suitcases cases, but there are times when... [Details]
Posted August 28, 2019
EDC North East welcomed another variable speed drive engineer on board this week. Rory Floyd, who has a Sports & Exercise Science Degree from Northumbria University, as well as an Electrical Engineering HNC, served an apprenticeship at Houghton International before moving on to ‘hands-on’ experience at Northumbrian Water. Commenting on... [Details]
Posted August 19, 2019
Because in business, percentages matter. Within a week EDC underwent both our Achilles and our LRQA audits. It was a lot to undertake, but then, as an ABB drive Value Provider we’re used to be audited to the highest standards. HUGE thanks to our inimitable Quality Manager, Alison Leith. A... [Details]
Posted August 02, 2019
Drives need love too. And this is enough to bring tears to a variable speed drive engineer's eyes... This is why drives need routine maintenance and servicing. Something as simple and inexpensive as a filter can, if not regularly replaced, lead to an ingress of dust and oil..which in turn... [Details]
Posted July 25, 2019
A challenging installation, a tight deadline, rigorous site safety standards...and double 300 mm steel wire armour cable to contend with. Some of the EDC engineers have been on site for two weeks carefully completing this retrofit using ABB drives. Engineered in-house by our design team, and managed to the final... [Details]
Posted July 18, 2019
EDC North East Ltd shareholders sealed the deal last week with the official ceremony, completing the legal process. John Guthrie, Matthew Hutton and Neil Keenan all signed on the dotted line, making them an intrinsic part of EDC NE - the north east's Authorized value provider for ABB drives. Said... [Details]
Posted July 04, 2019
EDC North East’s latest panel - bound for the petrochemical industry - was tested this morning. Fitted with a 30kW ABB ACS880 industrial drive, complete with digital I/O extension and modbus adapter, the panel was intricately wired by our north east engineers. Once sited, our ABB approved engineers will commission... [Details]
Posted June 19, 2019
EDC took delivery of two ABB ACS880-17-0870A-3+B054 500kW regen drives this week. Awaiting the customer's inspection in our workshop, they will be replacing existing ABB ACS600 inverters which are over 16 years old. Once sited, the EDC engineers will get to work commissioning the units, taking care of the comms conversion from... [Details]
