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UPDATE #9

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In this issue:

• Economic new compact I/O modules offer ease-of-use
• Softstarter with integrated I/O offers diagnostic and control capability
• Software bundle helps users to manage processes effectively
• Ethernet processor added to PLC-5 controller family
• Add more flexibility and reliability
• Breakers and contactors ready for export to China
• Getting tough with power integrity
• Mini contactors and relays enhance modular control system range
• Data collector for multiple applications suits all users
• New condition-monitoring modules expand predictive maintenance offering
• Fixed-time relay offers low-cost solution
• Greater safety for machine operators
• Extended operator protection for harsh environments
• Miniature proximity sensors are ideal where space is limited
• Flexible, cost effective, closed-loop speed and positional control
• Minotaur MRS300 Modular Monitoring Safety Relays

Broader Terminal Blocks offering allows better solutions

We have expanded our IEC Terminal Block product portfolio to meet the needs of many customers – allowing them to set up more flexible, time saving solutions. The expansion has been in the areas of High-Current Terminal Blocks, Neutral Disconnect and Installation Terminal Blocks and Coloured and Interlinked Terminal Block markers.

With the new 1492-J120, JG120 and J240, we can now offer power wire solutions up to 380A and accept up to 500 MCM wire in an enclosed terminal block helping users to increase panel safety for higher current applications.

This line expansion offers screw and spring-clamp styles, which may offer increased safety compared to a disconnect product that requires a tool to open or close a circuit. The system uses a series of feed through circuits, ground circuits and circuits with a direct connection to a busbar, which run the full length of the terminal blocks to a connection block mounted further down the DIN rail for an isolated neutral connection.

Neutral Disconnect and Installation Terminal Blocks are used extensively in Europe for distributed cabinets in commercial building installations; however, this new system is also growing in popularity in the United States for a variety of positive-disconnect applications.

The Bulletin 1492-J family creates the opportunity to reduce material and labour in wiring panels with the capability to install up to three centre-jumpers in the 1492-J3, J4 terminal block line. It has also opened up new possibilities for making in-panel cross connections while maintaining a high level of panel organisation and circuit traceability.

Red, blue and black centre jumper colours have been added that will allow the use of all three centre-jumper channels with a different colour jumper in each one. Coloured jumpers are available in pole lengths of 2, 3, 10 and 50 pole for the J3 products, as well as other products in the same 5.1mm width. J4 and other 6.1mm products have coloured jumpers available for 2, 3, 10 and 41 pole lengths.

The new range of markers maximises the speed of installation and enhances panel appearance. The new markers allow users to install them in groups as opposed to single marker installations in high-volume feed-through terminal blocks. Having the markers interlinked will also increase the stability of the marker in the terminal block once it has been installed. There is less chance that a marker could be accidentally removed from the terminal blocks because they are now snapped into the terminal blocks and linked to the markers in the adjacent blocks.