Automation and Drives

EMC Practice
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Installation Rules

EMC Practical

EMC incorrectly
Installed

Summary

Drives Training Foils

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Objectives
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By the end of this foil set you will be able to:
Installation Rules
- List the installation rules to minimise the effect of EMC.
EMC Practical

EMC incorrectly - Give examples of how each rule can be implemented.

Installed

- Identify good and bad EMC practice in a given installation.

Summary

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EMC: The Installation Rules

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1. Ground all metalwork together using thick solid straps.
Installation Rules
2. Separate signal and power cables.
EMC Practical

EMC incorrectly 3. Suppress all coils, contactors, relays, solenoids etc.

Installed using RC suppressors.

4. Use shielded cable or twisted pairs where possible.

Summary
5. Avoid long cable runs or loops. Keep cables close to
grounded metalwork.

6. Ground unused cables at both ends.

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Ground all Metalwork...

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Installation Rules
Solid Bussbar for
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main Ground
EMC incorrectly connection.
Installed

Short flat conductor

Summary where possible

Thick Braided ground

wire.

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Ground all Metalwork...

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Installation Rules

EMC Practical
Thick Braided ground
wire for grounding of
EMC incorrectly door.
Installed

Summary
Solid Bussbar for
main Ground
connection - connects
between cubicles.

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Separate Signal and Power Cables...

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Installation Rules

EMC Practical Signal cables

are screened
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and separated
from other wiring

Summary

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Suppress all Coils

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Installation Rules

EMC Practical

EMC incorrectly
Suppress all
Installed contactors
/relays etc using
Varistors, Diodes
Summary
or (best) RC
networks

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Use Shielded Cables or Twisted Pairs...

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Installation Rules
Ground cable shields at both ends
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EMC: How to do it
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Installation Rules

EMC Practical + Good Groundplane

EMC incorrectly
+ Screened control cables.
Installed

+ Input Choke
Summary
- No separation of input,
output, or signal cables.

- No filter.

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EMC: How to do it
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Installation Rules

EMC Practical

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Summary

+ Screened control cables.

- No separation of input, output, or signal cables.

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EMC: How to do it
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Installation Rules

EMC Practical + Screened PROFIBUS cable

crossing at right angles
EMC incorrectly
Installed + Screened input and output
power cables.
Summary
+ Output Chokes (Long Cables)

+ EMC Filter well grounded to

metal backplane.

- Supply and motor cables

together.

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EMC: How to do it
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Installation Rules
+ Input Chokes
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EMC incorrectly
+ Separate
Installed PROFI wiring

Summary

Braking
Resistors

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EMC: How not to do it

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Installation Rules

EMC Practical
The filter is achieving very
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little because of poor
grounding and because
cables can cross couple
Summary around it.

Zoning is non existent.

Wires are crossing, clear of

the metalwork and tied
together to encourage
radiated EMI

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EMC: How not to do it

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Installation Rules
- Mixed power and
EMC Practical signal wiring.
EMC incorrectly - All cables
Installed
unscreened.

Summary - Unsuppressed
contactor and relay
coils.

- Braking resistor
wiring!

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EMC: How not to do it

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Installation Rules

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Summary - Test
Equipment

- Contactor in screened output lead causes failure of EMC tests

(flights, hotel costs two man/days…..)
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EMC: To Summarise
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 Plan the installation with EMC in Mind

Installation Rules

EMC Practical  Segregate the different components screen into different Zones
Consider using cabinets etc with built in screening.
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 Segregate Motor cables from signal cables.
Screen analogue and digital cables at each end.
Summary De-couple if necessary.

 Equipotential bonding for high frequency currents.

Thick flat braided bonding cables.

 Remember - Prevention is better - and cheaper - than cure.

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Siemens AG
Installation Rules
Standard Drives
EMC Practical

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Martin Brown
Summary A&D SD CS Congleton

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