Sprint Electric's JL/X range of slip ring motor drives

Sprint Electric's JL/X range of slip ring motor drives The new motor controllers will be introduced in November at SPS/IPC/Drives, the international trade fair for electric automation, systems and components, in Nuremberg, Germany.

A slip ring motor is a type of induction motor having a wound rotor connected to slip rings. Typical applications for slip ring motors include cranes, where the motors are used to control the hoist, as well as the X/Y movement.

Sprint Electric's JL/X range of slip ring motor drives is a derivation of the PL/X digital dc drive product range. It shares the same software and hardware platforms and delivers the same precise digital control functionality as the established PL/X range of dc drives. The main difference is that the thyristor stack configuration has been designed to provide a 3-phase output (U, V, W) suitable for controlling slip ring motors in either 2- or 4-quadrant modes. All the fieldbus options including Profibus, DeviceNet, CC-Link, EtherNet/IP, Modbus and however CANopen, and configuration software packages used with the PL/X, are also available for the JL/X range.