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    What is Medium Voltage?

    Thanks for the opinions. I would like to know where in the NEC it discusses this if anyone knows.
  2. Fchild

    What is Medium Voltage?

    I know that I always concidered anything over 600VAC up to 35KVac as Medium Voltage. Where is this definision? Is there a standard or is this just a ball park description that depends on the person and situation?
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    Panelview1000 to SLC 5/05

    The slc 5/05 has iethernet connections. I'm not familar with the panelview 100 but we lots of 600 and they can come with iethernet. I find eithernet the easiest protocal. cept for the spelling of it.
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    Ethernet for Industrial I/O

    oops i meant to say a SLC5/05 with eithernet.
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    Ethernet for Industrial I/O

    OK, thanks guys. I will try to define this a little better. I am looking to grab speed information from the drives. The data is not being used for control but just for analysis. I will need a sample about every 30 seconds or so. I so far have four seperate machines that are not networked...
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    PLC Number Interface?

    Could you just have one two position spring to center switch to increment or decrement the count? You could even set it up if the button was held longer than a second or two to increment faster. Simple, one button two inputs. It is not as fancy as an input pad but it's cheap and easy.
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    Ethernet for Industrial I/O

    I have a project coming up. I have four machines with Rockwell VFDs on them. I want to monitor the speed of the drives of the drives for trending and such. One solution was to hook up a simple 4 pen chart recorder to the A/O of the drives. This would require that someone change the paper in...
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    Corona Treater

    We have a cortec 10KW corona treater on a paper coating machine. I would like to look into replaceing the one we have or at least see what else is out there. Does anyone have any experience in these sort of applications? Where can I find a few vendors with similar products?
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    Basler is good. Who else is there?

    I need to get three estimates for replacing our basler static exciter. We have a SSE 125-33Kw exciter that is on a 6000 KW steam drivin generator. I also want to update our steam controls. We recently had an unscheduled outage and the big shots were not impressed with the urgency that basler...
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    Electrical extension cords.

    Where can I find the code concerning the allowable length for extention cords? For example there is a H&V unit on about 10 feet in the air and there is a cord set comming out of a junction box with an electrical connector that is plugged into another cord set that comes from the device. I did...
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    Modicon to AB

    I have the same issue as stated above. I am converting Modicon 484s to SLC 500. I am going through the documented program (unable to online with the Modicon) line by line. I have some contacts in the program with a 2100 address. I am unable to find where these are coming from. There is no...

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