pDrive CX Vector

[Brad93]

Anyone have experience with this brand of inverters? I can't find a manual. I'm trying to hook up a pendant for start, stop and reverse.

This was integrated with our welding controllers but we lent the unit to a university and it came back not working, all the wires pulled out and no one noted down where anything went.

Our integrator is long gone so I'm resorting to a standard pendant to control the vfd.

 

[Brad93]

Found this for a PDrive CX Single which seems similar. No option to start by impulse so the pendant I have is useless.

 

[Chippie]

You could add a small 12/24 volt relay and integrate that with the stop/start buttons on your pendant to give you what you need…

 

[Brad93]

You could add a small 12/24 volt relay and integrate that with the stop/start buttons on your pendant to give you what you need…

Hmm more faff. I've got the bits to do it though I guess. Just seems daft to me

 

[pawsnizzy]

Are the University going to be getting a bill for the damage Brad?

 

[Newlands]

I think I found the same manual-
This one?
If you check page 57 it shows the control connections, and if you check your model against these and they’re the same there’s a good chance you can follow what they show. For just a simple stop/start all you need is a switch from the p24 terminal to terminal 1 for start, and another switch from p24 to terminal 2 for reverse. Set parameter C01 to 00 and C02 to 01.
You may have to check the other parameters are suitable for your motor as you don’t know what has happened to it in the past! I would guess that all the data in that manual applies to your model, and in the absence of any better information I would give it a go if it was me.

re your pendant - surely you can take the back off it to see whether you can use any of the buttons and switches, and which wires go where? I might have completely missed the point of your post of course, in which case just do what my wife does - ignore me!

 

[Brad93]

Are the University going to be getting a bill for the damage Brad?

No, sods. Cranfield it was.