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Thread: Alco Compressor Soft starter
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25-09-2011, 07:07 PM #1
Alco Compressor Soft starter
Anyone already used the Compressor Soft Starter from Alco?
http://www.emersonclimate.com/europe...t_Starter.aspx
What's your experience? We need it in an application with 2 x 240V Unithé Hermétique compressors of 2HPLast edited by Peter_1; 26-09-2011 at 06:01 AM.
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25-09-2011, 09:05 PM #2
Re: Alco Compressor Soft starter
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
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25-09-2011, 09:34 PM #3
Re: Alco Compressor Soft starter
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
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08-10-2011, 08:37 PM #4
Re: Alco Compressor Soft starter
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.
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08-10-2011, 09:41 PM #5
Re: Alco Compressor Soft starter
Soft starters are a the best starting device for comressors.
easy on the supply net and helps the life span of the compressor.