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Recently here at our offices we have been busy fitting out our new training rooms, but moreover we decided that rather than limiting ourselves to training only in Great Yarmouth, we decided to make the rig accessible for our external sales engineers for remote access. The remote access is done via Ethernet IP secured by

Softstart UK was a finalist at the Great Yarmouth Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2014 under the category for the Great International Growth Award, hosted at the recently refurbished Town Hall. The award celebrates businesses who can demonstrate that finding and developing new growth opportunities abroad since April 2009 has improved their financial performance. This award

In remote areas, solar powered pumping stations are becoming increasingly interesting. Today most of the pumps for remote areas in water, work with diesel generated energy, adding to increasing fuel costs and environmental reasons are thus calling for a rethink. The solar pumping station concept from Softstart UK delivers a perfect solution for these problems,

We are just completing a mini waste water treatment control system for pumps for a brand new very well know fast food burger restaurant, the new building due to open next weekend, is a double storey building located beside the A12 opposite the Colchester United football ground. Having built all the motor control stations for

We have recently built a third crane control panel for the same customer, replacing the old slip ring control panels but retaining the original slip ring motors for a 120T beam crane. All three axis are controlled from the new control system, long travel at 15KW, cross travel at 7.5kW and hoist at 75KW, the

We have just completed four new Zone 1 ATEX panels for bore hole pumps rated at 170A @ 460VAC, we have a further 18 systems to build to complete the contract. Units are going to a petro chemical plant in the Middle East, each finished skid assembly contains 2 panels, the front section houses the

We have successfully commissioned this week our new multi-voltage medium voltage soft start at its new home in Gloucester. Using a series of castell interlocks supplied by SSE, the system operators are able to select the required test voltage appropriate to the selected motor, the soft start then gives a voltage confirmation to the selected

At Softstart UK we were recently challenged to think outside the box, to come up with a unique Soft Starter to create a multiple voltage solution. The challenge was to create a 300A Soft Starter that would take an interlocked feed from multiple supply voltages via transformers with tappings of 11, 10, 6.6, 5 and

Great Yarmouth electrical engineers, Softstart UK, have pulled out all the stops and supplied high-tech equipment for a massive clean water project in Nigeria in double quick time. Softstart was asked by a major contractor in the UK via the Nigerian Development Agency if they could provide a solution for a seemingly intractable problem. The

New from Softstart UK is the AFE2000 active front end drive from Delta Electronics, which replaces traditional brake resistors in variable speed drives to convert regenerative energy (excess heat) into reusable electricity. Using the AFE2000, more than 95% of the energy is regenerated and supplied back to the mains, delivering clear energy savings. At the

Softstart UK has introduced a new range of high performance micro PLCs, offering high speed, stable and highly reliable control across a whole spread of industrial automation applications. Manufactured by Delta Electronics, these second generation DVP series controllers offer increased program capacity and data register size, along with high execution speeds, impressive in-built functionality and

During braking, an inverter or servo drive is effectively acting as a generator. Conventionally, this excess energy is simply dumped through braking resistors, where it is wasted as heat. Now, with the Delta Power REG2000 regenerative units from Softstart UK, this excess energy can be converted into reusable electricity, so delivering clear energy savings in