I have ABB DC drive PSD 684 V5. I need it's user manual which I could not find from any where. ABB had obsoleted it in 2009. If any one has its detailed manual kindly do share.
Thanks in advance
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Re: User Manual Require for ABB DC Drive PSD 684 V5
09/30/2016 5:24 PM
So here's a question for you.
Why would you need a manual for a drive that has been obsolete for 7 years? Parts are no longer available for it; they announced back in 2009 that what parts they had were all that was left, so by now, they are most likely gone.
If your drive no longer works, it can't be repaired so it's time to replace it.
If it works, but you don't know how to change something in it, it might be a good time to replace it anyway, see above.
if you picked it up free and want to use it, it's not worth what you paid for it, see above.
My company made a very good drive product that we stopped selling in 1998. There are still thousands of them operating, but the components and technology used in making them in 1998 are no longer made. Yet still, people call every day wanting us to scrounge around in junk piles to find them one part or another to keep limping along rather than biting the bullet and replacing them when they fail.
One guy started yelling at me on the phone about it last month, crying about how his down time was costing him thousands of dollars per hour! For a product that we warned them to replace almost 20 years ago, and again when we announced we were no longer supporting 3 years ago because parts no longer exist...
Smell that coffee Signode? I think it's time to wake up!
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Re: User Manual Require for ABB DC Drive PSD 684 V5
10/04/2016 1:55 PM
Unless you stumble across someone who has a paper copy and is willing to scan it for you, it might be a virtual impossibility to get one. That drive was actually originally made by the Swiss company Brown Boveri, one of the two companies that merged (along with Asea from Sweden) to form ABB in the late 1980s. So the problem is, that means this product predates the Internet itself and definitely predates Adobe PDF files. Any electronic copy then will need to be one that someone scanned in from the original paper documents and made available. ABB themselves did not even do that. (The only reason I know all this is that I worked for ABB right after Asea merged with BBC in 1989, so we had this sort of issue come up a lot in those early days. ABB chose to let a lot of products from both sides drop out of existence even though they maintained support for the required 7 years).
From another site that I haunt, I found a link to a pdf document for a replacement Field Supply Unit they sold up until the late 1990s, so that came with an instruction manual in PDF format. It might help, but only if your issues are with the Field Supply Unit unfortunately.
Below is also a link to a similar discussion in 2013 in which one respondent commented that he had one and was interested in selling parts and maybe even scanning the manual. That's still 3 years ago, but much later than any other reference. He gave his email address and might still be there.
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