HVAC Drive H300
Specialist AC Drive
1.0 hp – 450 hp
(0.75 kW – 315 kW)
208 - 230 V | 460 V | 575 V
 
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This product comes with 5-year warranty as standard

No registration. No extra cost. Just peace of mind from day one. Learn more.

 

Efficiency and reliability in HVAC

HVAC Drive H300 variable frequency AC drive (VFD) is the result of extensive research and builds on our vast experience of the HVAC market.

The HVAC Drive H300, 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.

The HVAC Drive H300 dimensions are among the smallest in its class at every power rating. This saves valuable building real estate, makes the drives easy to handle, and maximizes mounting flexibility. 

Introducing The Specialist HVAC Drive, from the drive specialists

 

The HVAC Drive H300 has been designed to meet the needs of:

Consultants and design engineers

  • All the necessary features to meet your building HVAC project specification requirements.
  • A highly reliable product and support service: Simply specify, install and forget.

Contractors

  • Fast, easy and secure installation, commissioning and maintenance.

Owners of commercial buildings

  • Achieves maximum building occupant comfort.
  • Optimum energy saving and value with rapid ROI.
 

The HVAC Drive H300 offers a full IP65 solution with exactly the same dedicated HVAC features & capabilities as the standard models.

IP65 provides protection from total dust ingress and low pressure water jets from any direction, making it a simple choice for harsh environments and the outdoors*. The HVAC Drive H300 is now one of the most protected drives on the market, maximizing uptime and productivity, while cutting maintenance costs.

Standard and High IP drives

The High IP drive will already be familiar to users of the HVAC Drive H300, with all the same features that make commissioning effortless. The Hand-Off-Auto keypad with the built-in real-time clock is still available, sealed, and the protective casing has been designed with easy servicing and usability in mind.

This new variant enables customers to use both standard and high IP drives for the same project, so there is no longer any headache with mixing-and-matching vendors or product feature sets, making project qualification straightforward.

Save on installation

The HVAC Drive H300 High IP drive is enclosed in a sturdy, protective yet light casing, providing a compact solution. This not only allows easy integration in harsh environments but wall mounting close to the motor reduces installation costs, through:

  • No cabinet required
  • Shorter cable lengths
  • Less labor time/cost to install drive

Free 5 year warranty

To share our confidence in the reliability of Control Techniques, the HVAC Drive H300 High IP product is also eligible for Control Techniques’ extended warranty, at no extra cost.

*Shading from direct sunlight is required
Warranty terms and conditions apply.

 

High power drives | Whatever the size of your HVAC or refrigeration system, we can control it.

Highly efficient pre-engineered motor control system

Control Techniques knows that reliability and efficiency are game changers for HVAC or Refrigeration systems. Either a standalone compact product to fit in your existing system or a Free Standing Drive with a small footprint will support to optimise your motor efficiency.

Light weight, but no light weight!

The H300 is available with Control Techniques' larger frames too, which not only offer 500 kW of power in a single module, and 130 kg is up to 60 kg lighter than competitor drives, but its small footprint, only 295 mm width, and pre-engineered accessories make it easy to install even in a 400mm wide panel or retrofit in industry-standard cubicles.

No extra engineering required

The DFS Series High Power Freestanding Drives is a pre-assembled cabinet that fits in reduced space with all necessary system components included. However, flexibility is a strong point here, and understanding that every system requests your own configuration, we are happy to integrate: load switch, fuses, fan, line and sharing chokes or filters as your specifications require. The cabinet can also come with a doormounted HMI with Real-Time Clock, for easy set-up and maintenance.

Thanks to the dedicated online configurator, getting a quote and ordering is as simple as can be. Furthermore, we can ship your Freestanding drive to you with a very short lead time, saving weeks on typical industry standards.

Features

A complete HVAC/R building automation solution

HVAC Drive H300 has all of the features you would expect from a dedicated HVAC AC drive, including:

  • Easy integration with Building Automation Systems with onboard BACnet, Metasys N2 and Modbus RTU communications
  • Flexibility without a Building Management System with optional co-processor for running custom application software
  • Fire mode for occupant safety which allows the drive to continue to run in the event of a fire for smoke extraction or pressurizing a room
  • Quiet operation with Rotor Flux Control modes, high switching frequencies (up to 16 kHz), and an intelligent 10 speed drive cooling fan with minimum noise operation
  • High product reliability with conformally coated PCBs as standard
  • Easy system installation and ongoing management with intuitive PC tools and useful VFD features
  • High energy efficiency, up to 98%
  • Dynamic Volts/Hertz energy optimization
  • Sleep, Wake, and VFD standby modes
  • Motor control of super high efficiency sensorless permanent magnet motors
  • Among the most compact VFD in its class at every frame size

 

Software

Connect Commissioning Software
Connect - Commissioning tool

Based on Control Techniques’ 25 years' experience, Connect is our latest drive configuration tool for commissioning, optimizing and monitoring drive/system performance

CT-Energy-Savings
CT Energy Savings

Control Techniques' energy optimization software helps you analyze energy usage for different applications and calculate cost savings using variable speed drives.

Performance

  • Normal Duty peak rating: 110 % (60 s)
  • Maximum output frequency: 550 Hz
  • Switching frequency range: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 kHz (3 kHz default)
  • Sensorless permanent magnet motor control

Onboard communications

  • RS485 (BACnet, Metasys N2, Modus RTU)

Parameter backup

  • Serial port cloning with complimentary Connect Software
  • SD memory card (using SD-SMARTCARD-ADAPTOR)
  • SMARTCARD reader support
  • PC tools

Onboard I/O

  • 2 x Analog inputs, 2 x Analog outputs
  • 3 x Digital inputs, 3 x Bidirectional digital inputs or outputs
  • 2 x Relay outputs (Form C)

Machine safety / VFD enable

  • 1 x Safe Torque Off (STO) terminal

Power and motor control

  • Stationary autotune for sensorless permanent magnet motors
  • Wide operating Voltage range, capability to operate on a back-up DC supply
  • 24 V control backup

Other

  • Temperature controlled 10 speed fan operation with user adjustable speed limit
  • User replaceable fan(s) for easy maintenance
  • PCB conformal coating
  • Sleep, Wake, and VFD Standby modes (energy saving)

VOLTAGE RATINGS

100 V (100 V - 120 V ± 10%)

200 V (200 V - 240 V ± 10%)

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400 V (380 V - 480 V ± 10%)

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575 V (500 V - 575 V ± 10%)

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Approval & Listings

cUL

USA and Canada (cUL Listed). UL File number: E171230

CE

European Union (all applicable directives and regulations LVD, EMD, RoHS, REACH, Energy related products)

UKCA

United Kingdom (all applicable regulations)

RCM

Australia and New Zealand (Responsible Supplier Registration No. E6934)

EAC

Russian Customs Union. H300 models

Functional Safety

Safe Torque Off function.
TÜV Rheinland Type Examination Certificates:
01/205/5270.02/17 (Unidrive-M and derivative products)
01/205/5409.02/21 (SI-Safety  option module)
01/205/5720.00/19 (MiS210, MiS250 option modules)

The safety function "Safe Torque Off" can be used in applications up to Cat 4. PL e according to EN ISO 13849-1, SIL 3 according to EN 61800-5-2/ EN 62061/ IEC 61508, and in lift applications according to EN 81-1 and EN81-2.
UL Functional Safety

Unidrive-M all products
File E171230 Vol. 11 Sec. 1 Issued: 2015-01-22
Compliance with specific requirements of NFPA 79

ISO

Quality system: ISO 9001 (Certificate Nos. FM 739405)
Environmental management system: ISO 14001 (Certificate No. EMS 739789)
Occupational health and safety: ISO 45001 (Certificate No. 5430)

China RoHS

Chinese Order No. 32, 2016; Administrative Measures for the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (China RoHS 2),

EPA TSCA regulations

All Commander and Unidrive-M products
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently promulgated regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”)

IHM, Basel convention,

MEPC 68/21 / Add.1, Annex 17, Resolution MEPC.269(68) 2015 Guidelines for the development of the inventory of hazardous materials.

Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI)

CMRT compliance

Weights & Dimensions

FRAME SIZE

   DIMENSIONS (H x W x D)

WEIGHT

 

mm

in

kg

lb

382 x 83 x 200

 15.0 x 3.3 x 7.9

4.5 max

9.9 max

391 x 124 x 200

15.4 x 4.9 x 7.9

6.5

14.3

391 x 143 x 200

15.4 x 5.6 x 7.9

7.4

16.3

391 x 210 x 227

15.4 x 8.3 x 8.9

14

30.9

557 x 270 x 280

21.9 x 10.6 x 11.0

28

61.7

804 x 310 x 290

31.6 x 12.2 x 11.4

52

114.6

9E

1069 x 310 x 290

42.1 x 12.2 x 11.4 

46

101.4

10E

1069 x 310 x 290

42.1 x 12.2 x 11.4

46

101.4

11E

1242 x 310 x 312 

55.5 x 12.2 x 12.3 

63

138.9

Dimensions include mounting brackets

Keypads and Parameter Storage 



KI-Keypad Plus
KI-Keypad Plus' large and clear color display makes the drive status information and parameter descriptions easy to read and readily accessible. It enables easy access to key drive features for enhanced machine performance, with the helpful wizard quickly guiding the user through configuration.

Bluetooth allows remote and flexible connectivity for PC tool commissioning and programming, without needing to open the enclosure, for smarter and safer working. 10 user selectable parameters can be displayed on the status screen, with real-time information, plus all parameters can be scaled and their units customized.

SmartCard

Smartcard

Smartcard 8k memory device to backup and copy parameter sets and basic PLC programs. SMARTCARD-64 has 64k of memory.


SD-Card Adaptor

Allows an SD card to be inserted into the Smartcard slot, for parameter backup cloning and application programs (SD card not included).


HOA Keypad RTC

Plain text, multi-language LCD keypad for in depth parameter and data descriptions gives an enhanced user experience. Enables quick commissioning and provides four lines of real text in guiding the user through set-up, with Hand-Off-Auto control. A battery operated real-time clock allows accurate time stamping of diagnostics and aids quick fault resolution.

Remote-HOA-Keypad-RTC

All the features of the HOA-KEYPAD-RTC, but remote mountable. This allows flexible mounting on the outside of a panel and meets IP54 (NEMA 12)


System Integration Modules - Communications 



SI-BACnet IP

IP interface module

SI-Profinet Communications System Integration Module

SI-PROFINET

PROFINET interface module

SI-Profibus Communication System Integration Modules

SI PROFIBUS

PROFIBUS interface Module

SI-Devicenet Communications System Integration Module

SI-DeviceNet

DeviceNet interface module

SI-CANopen Communication System Integration Module

SI-CANopen

CANopen interface module supporting various profiles, including several drive profiles

SI-Ethernet Communication System Integration Module

SI-Ethernet

Ethernet module that supports EtherNet/IP and Modbus TCP/IP


System Integration Modules - Additional I/O


SI-IO-system-integration-option-module

SI-I/O

Extended I/O interface module to increase the number of I/O points on a drive. Provides additional: 4 x Digital I/O, 3 x Analog inputs (default)/Digital inputs, 1 x Analog output (default)/Digital input, 2 x Relays.


UL Type 1 Conduit Kit

FRAME SIZE

ORDER CODE

3&4

C-BOX-GF3-4

5

C-BOX-F5

6

C-BOX-F6

7

C-BOX-F7

8

C-BOX-F8

9E & 10E

C-BOX-F9-F10

11E

C-BOX-F11

Retrofit brackets

H300 drives can be fitted in existing Affinity drive surfacemount installations with retrofit brackets.

FRAME SIZE

ORDER CODE

4

3470-0062

5

3470-0066

6

3470-0074

7

3470-0078

8, 9E, 10E

3470-0118

Optional external EMC filters

HVACR AC Drive H300 has a built in EMC filter that complies with EN 61800-3 (CategoryC3). An external EMC filter is required for compliance with EN61800-3 (Category C1/C2)

FRAME SIZE

VOLTAGE

ORDER CODE

3

230 V – 3 phase

460 V – 3 phase

4200-3230

4200-3480

4

230 V – 3 phase

460 V – 3 phase

4200-0272

4200-0252

5

230 V – 3 phase

460 V – 3 phase

575 V – 3 phase

4200-0312

4200-0402

4200-0122

 6

230 V – 3 phase

460 V – 3 phase

575 V – 3 phase

4200-2300

4200-4800

4200-3690

7

230 V & 460 V – 3 phase

575 V – 3 phase

4200-1132

4200-0672

8

230 V & 460 V – 3 phase

575 V – 3 phase

4200-1972

4200-1662

9E & 10E

230 V & 460 V – 3 phase

575 V – 3 phase

4200-4460

4200-2210

11E

230 V & 460 V – 3 phase

575 V – 3 phase


4200-0400

4200-0690


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