Alco Compressor Soft starter

[Peter_1]

Anyone already used the Compressor Soft Starter from Alco?
http://www.emersonclimate.com/europe/en-eu/Products/Electronics/Alco_Electronic_Controls/Pages/Compressor_Soft_Starter.aspx
http://products.centercon.nl/a/i/distribution/thumb/b9f192fa450eb9e21527b9c11dab23fc.png
What's your experience? We need it in an application with 2 x 240V Unithé Hermétique compressors of 2HP

[chillerman2006]

Hi Peter

have not seen/used them personally but like the idea they are plug and play
some can be a right pain setting up, so this would suit me nicely

R's chillerman

[stufus]

I retro fitted a load of these to Danfoss ASHP units a while back .To comply with the SEI regs over here.
Nice and handy .
Although the ones supplied by Danfoss had been rebadged and were white.But thats definitely the same unit. Good piece of kit.
Cheers
Stu

[supra_84]

Would this be suitable for low voltage situations?

I go to many dairy farms, where low voltage is a problem. The overloads keep tripping, capacitors blow up or read low. Causing wires to go brittle/melt just generally causing problems
and having to regurlarly go back to fix.

Has anyone used these kind of things on 5.5hp scrolls single phase, Currently we wire just a 70 micro farad capactitor, But as we all no they are not great starters. And intermidant breakers/overloads trip causing hassle.

Could do with a good solution, it would save them getting me out of bed at 5am.

[chemi-cool]

Soft starters are a the best starting device for comressors.
easy on the supply net and helps the life span of the compressor.