Construction and modernization of control cabinets cable carousel
Adapting and building additional controls Carousel
From Wind Cable Services, EPMC Europe Crane Solutions was asked if we would restore a control cabinet we had previously built to its former state. In addition, they wanted an expansion of the current control from 3 frequency controllers to 5 controllers for running a 500 ton cable carousel.
In the November 2021, we began surveying and engineering. Soon after, construction of the control cabinet for the additional controller (slave) began. When the slave control was ready, it was built next to the other control cabinet in the container. The entire system is modular with 1 to 5 drives.
This control for driving the carousel now consists of 5 inverters that communicate together via a PLC. This applies to the main and slave cabinet. This allows you to have all drives start, stop and run at the same speed simultaneously.
The PLC is also accessible via a router so you can log in remotely, worldwide, should the control have a problem. To keep the system clear and to ensure that a problem or malfunction can be seen quickly by the carousel operator, we installed an HMI screen in the cabinet door of the control box.
This conversion was a wonderful job for us and was completed to the customer's satisfaction.