When you are responsible for a building, the last thing you want your customers worrying about is occupant comfort. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems (HVAC) just needs to work.  ACH580 drives from ABB UK provide building users with intelligent and reliable climate control and maximum energy efficiency.

The ACH580 integrates easily into any facility. Whether installed from new or easily retrofitted, the ACH580 HVAC drives deliver precise climate control for offices, hospitals, data centres, and other commercial buildings. They also offer higher energy efficiently and help reduce CO2 emissions. Many applications use motors such as pumping for chilled and hot water loops and for refrigeration systems.

Simple control

The ACH580’s built-in features reduce on-site commissioning time, bring added value to existing control products and provide accessible diagnostics and troubleshooting. Built-in menus allow users to tune the system based on the functionality and performance they require. Sleep and timed functions are embedded to ensure that the drive doesn’t run unnecessarily.

ACH580 is easily integrated to existing controls or BMS. Pre-installed communication protocols include BACnet MS/TP, Modbus RTU and N2. Available as plug-in options: BACnet/IP, LonWorks, Modbus TCP, etc. and an externally mounted Ethernet adapter is available for remote monitoring

Tough environments

For installation in clean rooms, or dusty and wet environments, the drives are offered in robust wall-mountable construction in both IP21 and IP55 configurations. Both versions can be placed side by side, in either horizontal or vertical installations. Protection against internal contaminants is accomplished through our standard coated circuit boards.

To give users a better understanding of the power and energy usage of their system, the drives include a real-time clock and built-in energy calculators displaying, used and saved kWh, CO2 reduction and money saved.

ACH 580 will control any motor for any HVAC application including higher efficiency IE3/IE4 PM motors and IE4 SynRM motors from 0.75 up to 250kW. It offers Two programmable inputs and outputs and six programmable digit inputs, 12 to 24 V DC, 24 V AC, along connectivity of PTC sensors supported by a single digital input.

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