Any way to power a CLX without AB power supplies?

cardosocea · Jan 5, 2018

I'm on an upgrade project now and the panel receives one Mains power and one UPS Power.

Considering this, I was thinking of putting two 24V Power supplies in parallel with a Diode Unit and create a redundant 24V power rail to power the CPU, IO block and network Switch.
But it seems like Control Logix doesn't have the option of providing 24V to the rack, all I find is a redundant Power Supply topology that will only power the rack and nothing else.

Anyone dealt with this in the past?

jstolaruk · Jan 5, 2018

I believe there is a 5V supply in the backplane that you also have to take into consideration.

JohnCalderwood · Jan 5, 2018

From the manual, it says:

ControlLogix® power supplies are used with the 1756 chassis to provide 1.2V, 3.3V, 5V, and 24V DC power directly to
the chassis backplane. Standard, Slim, ControlLogix-XT™, and redundant power supplies are available.

cardosocea · Jan 5, 2018

Thanks guys.
I think I needed a step out of the Siemens shell. The part I am looking for is a 24V power supply from Rockwell... meaning something that takes in 24V and creates everything else.

JohnCalderwood · Jan 5, 2018

so....

is it something like this?

https://www.routeco.com/en-gb/shop/programmable-controllers/controllogix/1756-par2k

the 1756-par2k bundle appears to be 2 power supplies, cables and a plate that bolts on to the CLX rack.

never used it before....

(original one I quoted was the high temperature one...edited the part number now)

cardosocea · Jan 5, 2018

No, a part number that will do is 1756-PB72. This will take in 24Vdc and create the required voltages in the bus for the rack.

The 24Vdc for this PSU, can then be fed from an arrangement of two 240Vac->24Vdc supplies and a diode unit in between.

The confusion is that with Siemens, 24V go in directly to the PLC and I wasn't considering that I needed a power supply part number for the creation of all the other voltages... a brain **** basically.

JohnCalderwood · Jan 5, 2018

fair enuff...

the CLX power supplies (1756-PXYY) can be AC (X=A) or DC (X=B) supplied, with different current ratings (Y=50/72/75)

but they also do the redundant kit for you too...with the PSUs, cables and connector to chassis (didn't know they had options for that, mind you...)

Geospark · Jan 5, 2018

cardosocea said:
No, a part number that will do is 1756-PB72...

But that is just a single power supply. As John mentions, there are kit catalog numbers which contain everything you need.

For instance,

The 1756-PBR2 redundancy kit is the DC supplied version which included 2 x 1756-PB75R DC power supplies, 2 x 1756-CPR2 cables, and 1 x 1756-PSCA2 Chassis Adapter...

19828 - ControlLogix Redundant Power Supply Information (1756-PAR2 , 1756-PSCA2)
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Regards,
George

harryting · Jan 5, 2018

http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/sg/1756-sg001_-en-p.pdf

Page 34, list all the redundant power supplies

JRW · Jan 5, 2018

You in the AB world now...
grab that wallet

Sorry
I couldn’t resist

cardosocea · Jan 5, 2018

Geospark said:
But that is just a single power supply. As John mentions, there are kit catalog numbers which contain everything you need.

I have a CLX Rack, couple of Flex IO nodes and a network switch that I want to power.
I have 240Vac Mains and 240Vac UPS Supply.

I can put a redundant PSU from Rockwell on the rack or as they advertise, but those two power supplies will power the rack only.

So if I want the network switch and the remote IO nodes powered from both supplies, I have to get yet another set of PSU's from Phoenix or wherever and a diode in between them.

Instead of 4 PSU's a diode unit, special rack and cabling from Rockwell, I can get away with 3 PSU's and a diode unit.

Edit:

One other consideration, only one of those PSU's will be from Rockwell... which will definitely ease the wallet side of things.

Mike Lamond · Jan 5, 2018

cardosocea said:
Instead of 4 PSU's a diode unit, special rack and cabling from Rockwell, I can get away with 3 PSU's and a diode unit.

Edit:

One other consideration, only one of those PSU's will be from Rockwell... which will definitely ease the wallet side of things.

That's how my last two ControlLogix systems were built, using redundant Phoenix power supplies and the diode module. Part of this is driven by arc flash protection and voltage separation requirements. The first system had two power supply enclosures, each with a Phoenix 40 amp power supply and fed from separate 120vac circuits, and a distribution enclosure to feed the redundant PLC and I/O distributed across nine enclosures. Total load is about 22 amps at 24vdc.

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