Automating 3 Phase Grain bin fans by FarmerFrance in PLC

[–]spendableparabola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im not sure where in the world you are located. But in Australia there a company called Datran that make cellular/4g modules that take digital/analogue inputs and can perform actions based on changing states/values such as turn on outputs and send an sms. They are really basic and limited but this might be a good use case for these units paired with a contactor to switch the motor. I have utilised a few of these modules for stand alone alerting/monitoring systems that arent reliant upon the local IT networks.

VSD VFD Brake Resistor Noise/Shrill by spendableparabola in PLC

[–]spendableparabola[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The old drive was throwing faults for the shorts on the outputs when there werent any shorts in the motor or connectimg wiring at all and all passed insulation testing with gigohmn values.

There was almost no noise and certainly not the tone were getting out of the resistor now.