What is an AC drive

Electric motors play a very important role in our everyday business’s lives they move and run. Basically, everything we need for business or pleasure all these motors run on electricity in order to do their work of providing torque and speed. They need the corresponding amount of electric energy. All these motors consume electricity to provide the torque or speed needed. If that torque or speed was too high or low mechanical controls were used to slow downshift or control output the result is an efficiency with a lot of wasted materials and energy a motor speed should match exactly what is required by the process without a better way to control the speed lot of energy gets wasted and that’s not good for anyone’s business but there is a way to control these motors that helps you not only to save energy but also reduce scrap and maintenance cost. It’s in technology we call an AC drive.

• AC drives are sometimes called variable speed drives (VSD) or variable frequency drives (VFD).
• Drives sit between the electrical supply and the motor power from the electrical supply goes into the drive and the drive then regulates the power that is fed to the motor inside the drive the input power is run through a rectifier that converts the incoming AC power to DC power the DC power is fed into capacitors.
• Inside the drive this is done to smooth out the electrical waveform which provides a clean power supply for the next step power from the capacitors to an inverter that changes the DC power to the output AC power that goes to the motor.
• This step allows the drive to adjust the frequency and voltage that is supplied to the motor based on your current process demands this means you run your AC motors at the speed or with the torque according to the demand needed and this is why you can save large amounts of money using our AC drives.
• Besides saving you energy our drives also help you produce maintenance costs reduce scarp and even ambient noise emission they are also great ways to help meet your environmental goals and that’s why we develop a wide range of drives that work with your application no matter how small or large we understand that when you are making decisions about using the drive in your business everything counts