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The sun always shines...on ABB solar inverters. At the forefront of efficient energy generation, ABB’s solar inverters recently helped a customer save £1,000 per annum. EDC fitted the 3.3kW single phase unit, which will help power their business, as well as feeding energy into the grid. The inverter will turn... [Details]

Need a hire drive? Who ya gonna call? EDC! Late on a Friday evening this August, EDC NE took a call from a customer faced with a critical breakdown. It was all the more urgent because the location was a water pumping station which fed a major hospital in Belfast. It was... [Details]

With ABB you're always working in perfect harmony... Answering a call-out, EDC attended a leisure facility last week to discover a faulty ACH550 on an air handling unit (AHU).The customer had already followed the technical advice provided by one of our ABB-trained engineers (we’re always happy to provide phone support... [Details]

If it ain’t broke (even after 26 years), don’t fix it. Have you ever wondered what the life expectancy of an ABB drive is? On average, in the right environment, it’s 20-plus years, but sometimes even we’re surprised by their longevity. Last week we were asked to contact a local... [Details]

The report card every business owner wants to see: it proves you're dealing with a quality company. [Details]

One of EDC North East's latest jobs, an ABB ACS880-04XT-0810A-7, 525-690v parallel module upgrade (upgraded from ACS600tx). Trust ABB's Authorized value provider for north east England (for drives - sales, service & support) when it comes to all your retrofit requirements. With comprehensive training from ABB, they can make what... [Details]

A trio of our talented engineers, Colin, Michael & Gordon recently installed twenty-four ABB ACH580 inverters at a university. But what they found during the installation amazed them... The drives were being fitted to control a combination of AHU’s, chiller pumps and swimming pool circulation pumps. The applications were commissioned... [Details]

By replacing the existing damper control with this ACS880-07-0650A-3, 355kW ABB drive, our customer will  improve their site’s generation capability by 838,000 kWh per year and so increase profitability by 42,000 thousand pounds per year - following a 10 month payback. The retrofit, project managed, installed and to be commissioned... [Details]

Put EDC’s specialist engineers to the test! When a renowned local compressor manufacturer needed to test its turbo blowers at both 415V and 690V and 50 and 60hz  - with motors up to 900kW – they gave EDC the challenge of  producing a single test rig to deliver the required... [Details]

A whole host of components, including ABB controls and an ABB ACQ580 variable speed drive were expertly combined to produce this stand-alone, portable, emergency VSD. In the event of an on-site failure, the unit can be taken to the site reporting the fault and powered up either by a generator... [Details]