Website simplifies drive programming

Hitachi's global drives software development partner HID has enhanced its DriveManager support website.

Hitachi's global drives software development partner HID has enhanced its DriveManager support website.

The site is at www.drivemanager.com and enables registered users to access free downloads and upgrades.

Hitachi's DriveManager suite of programs is evolving into a very powerful set of tools for all levels of drives installers.

There are now a variety of programs within the suite to cater for all levels of users and all drive installation requirements.

The software runs within Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 2000 and NT on any IBM-compatible PC and several programs are now also available for Windows CE.

Essentially, the software emulates Hitachi's existing DOP and DRW handheld programming units, but with the convenience of being able to program drives at a desktop with a full size monitor.

The screens within the software have been arranged to provide users with the interactivity and intuitive operation of the Windows environment, but also to give on screen views of all the DOP screens available.

From the toolbar, users can load data, select printing, text saving and writing EEPROM data to disk.

Because the programming is in text files, the system is ideal for new users of drives since there is no need to have access to or knowledge of inverter address codes.

There are in-built help screens for all function parameters and an automatic quick function parameter selection facility.

The software is able to identify by automatic detection, the inverter range being programmed and can also save and load the inverter set up to disk as well as be printed out.

The current inverter set up can be compared with the set up in a file - a particularly useful feature when trouble shooting or retrofitting drives.

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