Posted August 23, 2018
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]
Posted August 16, 2018
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]
Posted August 09, 2018
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]
Posted August 03, 2018
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]
Posted July 30, 2018
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]
Posted July 26, 2018
Building on our recent expansion, EDC is pleased to announce 3 new recruits at our Erskine branch and 2 in our Gateshead offices. Our Erskine-based new starts include a time-served SJIB electrical engineer (who previously worked in the nuclear & pharmaceutical industries) and two new apprentice service engineers. They will... [Details]
Posted July 25, 2018
A simple common or garden fuse? Industrial fuses can be expensive, but they reach stellar levels of cost when you ignore their warning: that there's potentially a bigger issue. Replacing a fuse can be all too easy - and all too costly. A fuse blowing is a symptom of... [Details]
Posted July 25, 2018
Read how Scottish Water has halved its leakage rates since 2006 - working in conjunction with ABB and EDC. Writing in the latest edition of 'Wet News’, Dan Banks, ABB’s water framework manager, explains how the use of inverters can reduce pressure in pipes, leading to fewer leaks. Citing the... [Details]
Posted July 24, 2018
Variable speed drives don't just save you money on your energy bills. They also control and protect your plant. These four 22kW ABB ACQ580 drives, which were installed and commissioned by EDC (North East), saved a customers valuable 12k pump from major mechanical damage when the coupling failed - the... [Details]
Posted July 19, 2018
Life can be so unfair, especially for older models. I’m petite, intelligent & can converse with most common automation networks. I’m the new ABB ACS480 series drive, the successor to the ACS310 & ACS355 series and I’m just made for applications such as compressors, pumps, fans & conveyors. I have... [Details]
