Simple, reliable flow control

Applications involving the flow of water demand extreme reliability and low energy consumption. Available in IP20 and IP65 packages, Control Techniques’ F600 drive, part of the newly introduced Specialist series of industry-specific drive technologies, builds on our company’s five decades of drives expertise, delivering precise, dependable flow control.

Everything you need is baked into the drive itself. The F600 packs all of the features you’ll need, presented using terminology you’ll understand. This isn’t a generic drive with pump features tacked on; it’s a dedicated, specialist pump drive, designed from the ground up to deliver the reliability and efficiency you need. 

Unmatched total cost of ownership

With innovative protective features and extended equipment life

The F600 has comprehensive pump and motor protection features which minimise unplanned downtime, improving overall effectiveness and guaranteeing better value for money. Bring true resilience to your application and easily ride-through component failures.

Automatic Error Recovery

In the unlikely event of detecting an error with your pump, the F600 has the ability to dynamically recover and resume normal operation.

Limit Protection

If the feedback exceeds the limits defined for your application, the F600 has the ability to raise an alarm or stop the drive to protect your equipment and preserve its lifetime.

Transducer Loss Protection

In the event of losing connection to the transducer, the F600 can stop, continue to run at a fixed speed or ignore the fault depending on the application requirements.

Fire mode

Fire mode allows the drive to disable all trips and to continue to run uninterrupted during emergency events if the application requires.

Save on energy through a wide range of energy features

The F600 is 98% efficient, meaning very little energy is lost in power conversion.

Even more, the real savings potential gets unlocked by the F600’s built-in features that can further reduce energy consumption:

Low load savings 

The F600 helps maximise energy savings when demand is low. Activing Control Techniques’ leading-edge Low Load Power Saving function, the drive dynamically reduces the voltage applied to reduce losses in the motor and make the system more efficient.

Sleep mode

When demand falls below a specified set-point the drive will automatically enter sleep mode and restart itself once demand rises above the set-point. Not only does this greatly reduce the amount of energy consumed, it also saves on equipment wear to preserve its lifetime.

The F600 features optimised control for your flow applications

Pipe fill

Prevent spikes in pressure at start-up using a controlled ramp, to protect your piping system and the pump itself.

Dry-run prevention

Prevent the pump running dry by checking the load against a threshold; with flexible configurations to dynamically adjust output, set an alarm or stop the drive.

Over-cycling protection

Optimise drive, motor and pump sizing, and regulate pump wear by limiting the number of start-stops per hour. Flexible configurations allow to dynamically alter cycling reference limits, set an alarm or stop the drive when a limit is reached.

No-flow detection

Where there is no-flow or low-flow, the F600 drive can automatically enter sleep mode to save energy, based on the feedback of a pulsed flow transducer, or triggered by a flow switch, or detected by the software alone.

Cleaning

Live, continuous monitoring of the system is used to trigger an automatic drive-based cleansing cycle to clear the pump impeller and help avoid maintenance costs on cleaning pump blockages.

Level switch control

Level switches provide critical protection for tanks in the event of the level reaching a “high” switch, whereby the pump is stopped, or a “low” switch, whereby the pump is started, to ensure pumping within tank levels.

Pump Control Modes | Flexible support for every system

Single pump

Control Techniques’ Single Pump mode is an effective and versatile variable speed control solution for maintaining a constant set-point in a single pump configuration.

• Fire mode allows the drive to disable all trips and to continue to run uninterrupted during emergency events if the application requires

Cascade

Cascade mode allows the F600 to operate with up to 4 assist pumps to aid the primary pump when required.

• Energy usage is optimised whereby the assist pumps are only enabled when demand reaches sufficient levels.
• Assist pumps are used alternately to apply uniform wear and increase pump availability.
• Over-cycling protection for assist pumps to control the number of starts and stops per hour.

Multi-leader

Complete control of your application with up to 3 x F600 drives and maximum energy savings with these variable frequency drives running parallel.

• The Multi-leader drive configuration provides redundancy and removes the need for a PLC
• The “lead” drive is automatically cycled to apply uniform wear
• If the “lead” drive loses its transducer, it can access the transducer feedback from another F600 in the system over Ethernet
• Dynamic re-selection of “lead” pump if a pump is taken out of service or develops a fault