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New Mentor MP, High
Performance DC Drive
At SPS/IPC Nuremberg 2008 Control Techniques will be revealing
their brand new DC drive, the Mentor MP, to the public for the
first time! It is the result of several years research and
development from Control Techniques, and now sets a new world
standard for excellence in DC motor control.
Mentor MP follows in the footsteps of the well known Mentor
brand, launched as the world’s first digital DC drive in 1986 but
offers the same flexible control platform as Control Techniques’
intelligent AC drive, Unidrive SP. It makes Mentor MP the
most advanced DC drive on the market, giving energy efficient
operation, high motor performance and extreme flexibility in its
system interfacing capabilities and onboard processing power.
Mentor MP is an all new drive. Control
Techniques has invested heavily in its development. “Why has
Control Techniques developed an all new DC drive when the demise of
DC has been forecast for many years?” asks Product Manager Richard
Smith. “The answer is simple. Our extensive market
research shows that DC drives are here to stay and at Control
Techniques we can offer customers unique benefits that arise from
our global network of Drive Centres – a massive source of 35 years
of accumulated experience in DC drives and automation
applications. Mentor MP is a enormous step forward in
virtually every respect and meets all present and anticipated DC
market needs."
Mentor MP plays a part in promoting
sustainable technology. DC motors are both efficient and
robust and offer years upon years of service, providing good
performance in a wide range of industrial processes and
applications. Retaining an existing DC motor and upgrading
the drive makes good environmental and investment sense to any
customer’s upgrade project. It provides the opportunity
to enhance the overall system performance and reliability whilst
minimising problematic re-engineering and installation work; an
attractive proposal in today’s economic environment. Mentor
MP is also the only DC systems drive on the market today that is
RoHS compliant.
Mentor MP is designed with both today’s and
future requirements in mind, its full system integration
flexibility offering three option module slots and an inbuilt field
controller.
Find out more about Mentor MP
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