Welcome back to The Automation Podcast, the world's number 1 industrial automation product and technology show. Thanks to you, our audience of highly skilled automation professionals. Thank you for being a member of our audience, and thank you for tuning back in this week. Now for those new to the show, my name is Sean Tierney from Insights and Automation, and each week I invite a new vendor to come out of the show to talk to us about their products and technologies. And during their presentation, I'll play the role of the audience. I'll ask questions I think you guys might have as well as questions I have. And given that a quarter of our audience listens to the show, but doesn't watch it, just listens to it, I'll try to call attention to any details in the visuals that I think you listen only people may wanna know about. Now with that said, I wanna welcome Nick back to the show. We got a very exciting product to talk about. But, Nick, because some of the people may not have caught your last appearance, could you do, like, a quick little in, intro on who you are? Yeah. Happy to do that, Sean, and thanks for having me back here again. So I am, Nick Rausser, senior offer manager for the Altavar Machinery and Building Solutions with Schneider Electric. And I am the launch manager for the Altavar 3/20 solar products. And that's what we're here to talk about, this new innovative solution for the industry that grabs power directly from a solar cell onto the DC bus of a VFD and make it into useful power for a motor pump compressor fan. Yeah. There are some great videos Nick sent over to me, and I was just watching them. I'm like, wow. This is really cool. So, Nick, without further ado, let me turn it back to you, and let's jump in. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks again. So let's let's go through this. Very excited to talk about this. And, it's, by the way, Sean, a prelaunch. So a lot of this information is actually not even available online yet, but can certainly tell people how to get the information from your customers. So many of these links that I have currently here, the majority are actually internal. So the only way to access these would be there through, a Schneider salesperson or, one of our Schneider distributors or channel partners. So my recommendation, for those that want to be involved in the prelaunch and some of our development to reach out to your Schneider distributor. Now because it's a prelaunch, does that mean some of the things might change a little bit between now and the formal launch? I don't anticipate that, Sean. We we really have a lot of the things set and established. So it's more of the formalities of getting the Ah, okay. Product, commercialized in the US, in terms of our internal systems. But as far as certifications, features, stock, and manuals, those are all up and running. So Nice. Nice. Mhmm. And, I mean, going back to this exciting launch, there's many ways we can apply this product. So, obviously, the first thing that may come to mind is, solar pumps, solar skids, and farming. So for some of these remote applications, that's the most traditional way of applying this product. But there's just so many other things we can do with this. Orbital compressor skids, HVAC, high velocity, low speed fans. And it has an adjustable source, switchable source, I should say, between the DC bus and the AC power. So you can actually have both connected and have them switch over. And, we'll go over through that on how that looks like. So that is one of the very cool features and advantages that that we have here to showcase. And beyond that, the manual switch over that we have with that, some of the very cool integrated pump functions that we have on this very small ATV 320 VFD. So for those familiar with the Schneider ATV 320 product, it's the same form factor as our compacts, and we can go through the low horsepower ranges, which we have available. Since this is a very cool offer going into the DC bus of a VFD, we essentially have 3 products where you can do that. What we're here to talk about is the product that's specifically for solar applications. So if you think about the irrigation, golf courses, fountains, pools, residential, There's just countless of applications that we can think of or we can apply this in our markets. We'll go through some of the details as to why we came out with this launch and and the reasoning behind it and and the growth and traditional aspects of it. But if we wanna get creative, talking about our decarbonization goals, our, energy savings and off grid, it's just a very cool technology, something very unique. We have all the global certifications, UL on the DC bus portion, UL on the main power. So for those that want to create UL panels across the board, obviously, global centers to go with that, this is just a great solution. So before we jump into the technical product, anything any questions that may come up before we go into the, the core of, the horsepower or the voltage and and the future, Sean, that you can think of? No. I I just thinking that, you know, and this is I haven't seen any of the material yet, and I always, that's one of my requirements when somebody comes on because I wanna see it for the first time like the audience. And I'm just thinking this really simplifies those stand alone systems in the middle of nowhere that, you know, there's no power that's running to it. Right? So I mean think of what you would have to do with a solar panel prior to this is you would have to go to a battery typically. Right? And you know what, what if you only need the pump to go when the sun is out. Right? Why do you have to have all the cost and, you know, batteries don't last forever and all these other things? If we could take that solar power and put it right to the DC bus of the VFD, then when the sun's out, we can be pumping, and then when the sun goes away, we can just stop. You know, we don't we don't need all that other not to say that that stuff isn't good. In some applications, it'll be needed. Right? But it can really bring down the the simplest of the simple applications, solar panel, VFD, pumper motor. And I just love the simplicity of that for for certain applications. Again, granted it's not for everyone. And, so let me just throw it back to you. That those are kind of my initial thoughts. And that's just a great point, Sean. I'm very happy that you brought that up because, the other day we were with our mining team and they asked us they have a solar farm and they have a solar inverter. Well, guess what? We can apply this a couple of different ways. With the VFD, you don't really need the solar inverter because you're using the inverter, the VFD, to make it into useful power. So number 1, yeah, just to be overly helpful with how we're trying to apply this and and there's no need for dual inverters. But we can use the battery backup or maybe a generator backup as a backup. As you mentioned, maybe during the night, if you wanna pump, switch it back to that battery or generator, and during the day, use the solar power. So that's, those are all valid and unique applications here. So going back to the mining remote applications, solar panels, the end user may spend a couple 100 of 1,000 just to get power into a remote situation. Let we can start looking into alternative sources of how to be able to power your equipment. So that that's just a very compelling story behind that. But, without further ado, Sean, let's jump into some of the technical features and, some of the products details that we have here. Going back to the core product, as I mentioned earlier, initially, this was the intent is in the picture you see here, the Altamar 312 solar. So Schneider did have a solar VFD in the past, that we use for farming. It was in low low horsepower ranges. And the 3 20 solar is the upgrade of the 3 12 solar that we used to have before. And, we just added so many more features. The multi point power tracking, you used to have to manually program that. Ours is just automated, like, programmed into the VFD easily to turn on and off during the switchover periods of main power or solar power. So we've just tremendously upgraded this and even increased the range there. So you see here this assembly on a NEMA 3R panel. Obviously, all the switches, relays. We have all the documentation here to help our panel builders, integrators, skids and OEMs and panels people to put this together. As I mentioned before, there's the DC bus directly onto the VFD, and then we can either do a a filling a tank going straight to irrigation. This was the previous technology that we had here, Just to be, overly clear and helpful on what that used to look like. Now what is the next generation product? What's the difference here? Hopefully, you all recognize this. This is the Altavar machine 320, but it now has been built for Altavar Solar 320. So you'll see that the dial here looks like a sun. You'll see the QR code to download the data at the front of the VFD. And we have all the ranges here available for that. So it's gonna be on the compact form factor, specifically. It's gonna go from single phase to a 230, 3 phase to a 230, and the 3 phase 480 volts up to, 20 horsepower. And the DC voltage ranges are right here. This is kinda key to know the DC voltage ranges, because depending on, as we will see in the next few slides, what that looks like, that's really gonna dictate the current, maximum current that we can put into the motor. We have our 6 digital IOs, 3 analog inputs, 1 digital output. So our traditional outputs that we have with our Ultibar machine are the same IOs that we have with the Ultibar Solar 320. We can do synchronous and asynchronous motors, so induction and PM. It's IP20, mainly for panel build applications, and, as our conducted emissions or EMC standards as well and protection. Communication is here as well. The modbus and CANopen are the standard, and our optional communication cards are here as well. Another cool thing that we have on the AltaVor 320 solar is that we also have integration into the Schneider EcoStruxure platform for remote monitoring. So for those interested in that, we can also do a deep dive later on to that. The MPPT is a very important thing to know anytime we're dealing with solar technology. The multi point power tracking and that is in the lingo of solar. The specific algorithm that graphs that DC bus and creates it into useful power. Because obviously there's gonna be some ranges, some switching, some irradiation clouds, different types of, conditions that will change that DC bus. So that feature is really important to grab that changing DC bus and create useful power out into a pump, motor, fan, compressor. Very important here. I touched a little bit on the dual supply changeover. This is another very cool feature. So it can switch from solar to grid and vice versa through a manual switch, and we can go through the circuitry in a bit. I don't know how that looks like. You touched on battery and and maybe solar generators, Sean. Those are also things that we can switch over. The important thing is the if we're going to a grid or a main power, has to be on for the switching to work because that's what's powering the relays to do that. Okay. Mhmm. It does have a tank liquid probe function, so it'll fill up a tank. The pump functions are here as well as a pump curve, anti jam, dry monitoring, flow estimation, pulse counter, and volume counter. So for those that need to measure the volume per reset, per day, you can use a pulse counter which is the device that pulses unless you know what the flow is. So it's very, precise metering, or you can use the flow estimation, which is a rough estimate if you are flowing water or not in a percentage error range. So that's the difference there. And you can use the volume counter to connect on to both and and tag the number of times that you reset. So it could be half a year, a couple months, or daily. Going back to some of the cool functions that we have here, the ATB 320 has the safety functions. So, for example, safe Torkov, s s one, SLS. If you wanna have some safety, somebody opens a panel or the machine and do a safe, safety function. That's definitely available on the BFT through somu. And we also have, which is a very cool thing here, the ATV logic, which is our unique embedded PLC on the p l on the VFD that can create custom logic for specific applications or functions. So one of the things that we did here for the Altar 3 20 solar is we actually have a tested proven function for a tank probe if it's flowing, if it's not flowing, if there's a dry run, through a linking diode. And as as I mentioned before, EcoStruxure compatibility for remote monitoring. Here's some of our environmental protection features, up to 50 C without D rating, 60 C with D rating. And it has our altitude curves d rating as well for switching frequency, pollution degree, chemical class, and mechanical class protection on coating board essentially. And all the way down to minus 10 c, which is important, and, let me go back here. Yes. Yeah. And and typically, you'll find that if it's in an enclosure with electronics, it'll never get below that and well, most of America. I mean, you guys know where you need a heater. Heaters are very inexpensive, but, that's important to know. I'm sorry. Back to you. Yeah. Great point, Sean. So obviously, that's something we would design specifically in the panel for those cold climates and Mhmm. Going back to the frame sizes, from what we have on single phase to three phase, these are our ranges. This is really more informational for those of our audience here to wanna take a snapshot and and make sure that fits in their panel. Obviously, in in English, hoping to update to metric once we do our formal launch here. And we're we're down a half horse all the way up to 20 horsepower is the range, if you guys didn't catch that earlier. Good point there. Yes. As far as accessories, important accessories as the other VFDs, the line and motor chokes. Now a very unique cool thing here, when we're grabbing our solar cell tying into the DC bus, there's not a lot of harmonics there because we're actually using the power from the solar cells. So that's great way to avoid harmonics issues. Going back to the mining example, we even though this is specifically for our 20 horsepower machine, we do have an application note for our Altavar 900 as well. They can go, I believe, up to 400 horsepower. So for some of these large mining applications, imagine not having to deal with the harmonics because you're tying directly into the DC bus. Harmonics happen at the input of the VFD caused by the switching from AC to DC, and we're pretty much avoiding that by tying directly from the solar cell, not damaging the power from the grid. So just keep that in mind. But for those who want that do want the line motor chokes that is available, the motor chokes are for the outputs. We touched on our comm cards. We do have the additional EMC filtering for a high speed, high Hertz radio frequency filtering, conformity kits for the EMC, fan as accessories, mountain kits, and UL type 1 kits to my outside of machines. People here that are familiar with Schneider Nomenclature, the ATV 320c is the same model number. The range changes here, and the 412 would be the identification there. The difference between using a standard machine VFD versus a solar VFD. Now this is important here, especially when sizing the solar cells. So there's a couple of ways we can do this. We've provided a solar sizer that can help with some general solar information. The cut sheet that you have to make sure we have the right number of rows arrays to be able to power the pump or the machine. So this is the min and the max range for the solar cells. So when we're sizing for a pump fan motor, there's gonna be 2 d ratings we're gonna take into consideration. The d rating of the solar cell itself to make sure the DC bus power is sent within that range and the derating of the BFD, especially if it's outside. But for a non derate application or within these ranges, this is the max output that we have available from the BFD onto the FLA or the motor. So for those that are experienced here, very important that we size by FLA. And the FLA of the VFD has to be equal or higher than the motor, just as a friendly reminder. Traditional basic knowledge is just good to go through that. Mhmm. Mhmm. This goes up to 778 for the DC bus, 228, 403, and 404. So traditional DC bus ranges really works with any or most solar cells in the industry. Okay. Going back to our story, why did we come up with this product, some of the cool things that we've talked about, and the energy savings that is still available here. It has our green premium sustainability certification, recyclable. So we do have, obviously, great great things in our business to promote our green, green solutions in everything from production to end of life of the product and recycling. This goes back also to some of the traditional applications that usually this comes up with, which is ag, irrigation, sprinklers, etcetera. I know we have a video here, Sean. We we could certainly have the audience go through it on their own time, but highly recommend that they go through this very cool video of the Altavar 320 solar. Talks really about high level of what this is, main features, and, some of the cool places where we can apply it. As I mentioned before, global certifications are here European, UL, American, RoHS compliance. Very important to know that it has QL both on the DC bus and the main power. And why do we come up with a solar product? It's a very good question. So globally, 20% of the crops are irrigated by solar pumps. Obviously, this is very unique for other countries. And globally, just to be helpful here, this is a global launch, and that's also why we launched it. There's a 2.3 billion estimation of solar pumping that's gonna grow to 5,000,000,000 in 2028. We wanna be part of that growth. We wanna be part of that sustainability story, and that's why we're also launching that product here in the US. So, obviously, there's some key segments here, India and and other countries where this is very very important especially with our diesel applications. I do think with our, green initiatives that with this can also be applied in the US market very streamlined over here as well. So the goal here is to help the desalinationize some of these applications, take advantage of our solar arrays, and obviously compare that versus the square footage and availability to get power remotely. That that really is the key here. Before we jump into the functions, specific things that we have on the VFD, Sean, anything that, comes up to your mind of the ATV 320 solar, some applications, why it's launched, or where else you think this could be applicated in the industry? No. I I really just think that, you know, I keep coming back to only having 1 inverter. You know, you're you're coming directly from the solar panel into the drive, so you're not inverting it for us with a solar inverter because every time you do that, you're losing some power. Right? You're losing some efficiency. So this just makes it clean. You go right from the solar array to your VFD. You're not going through an inverter and then reconverting it later. And, you know, because every time you converge it, you lose lose a little bit. Right? So that's that's really my thought here. And that's why I love these remote applications. And I'm sure there's more than I could think of, but these remote applications where, you know, you've you've always wanted to have a pump, but, you know, a full blown, you know, large battery system is very expensive. And then converting that back to, run a pump is also expensive, and this is simplifying that panel. So those are that's what's running through my mind right now. Let me turn it back to you, Nick. Okay. Great. Thanks, John. And we will go through those diagrams just to be helpful with the audience here on how to wire it directly from the solar cell as well. MPPT is key again for any solar application. This is automated into our VFD. In our previous 3 12 solar. You did have to enter some parameters to be able to tune it. That's, we've really automated this with our VFD now. To show the audio as an example of how this works, this very cool algorithm. So you see the solar cell here, the useful power, the voltage. And on the right, you have the head and the flow, as well as the power and the flow curve. So let's run the graph here as to how this looks like with a changing temperature, er irradiation, or shaded solar array for the audience. So you see the cloud here, rasp onto the solar cell, and it does reduce the flow, follows the curve, and the power. So that's really what MPPT means. For the audio audience here, we're seeing as a cloud comes over the solar panel, you know, the output the pump output is going down at proportional to the available power. So that is, that's very cool. So you can even power if you don't have full sunlight. You can even pump. Yeah. And that's exactly right, Sean. Yes. The other feature that we have here is the global maximum PowerPoint tracking. This one, we do need to enter 2 parameters, but this is really to automate different clouding seasons times to make sure that even when shading or less sun for the next day versus the previous, there's an internal algorithm there that's gonna make sure that our output power is gonna maintain at the max of that shaded curve range. So this is the global maximum power point tracking. This is really for something that we wanna use for, more than just a daily use of the MPPT. It's seasonal use, shaded use, different seasons. It essentially has the algorithm embedded in there to change and and attain maximum power during those switches and changes. This is what the global MPPT would look like. Partial shading versus the full shading. Just to zoom in. Let's go into some of the cool features that we have here. The VFD itself can help you fill up a tank with a tank liquid probe function. So this is gonna help you detect if the cap tank is full to run or not run if it's not full, check the status, and it also can help detect the probe error. So we if you add some resistors there per our diagram, calibrate accordingly. If there's an error with a probe, can also alert there's, an error with a probe, and we also need to adjust and fix that. So to make sure that we have the right, right filling there. This is very key to avoid having overflow or downtime and be able to properly fill the tank. I know there's quite a bit of details here on the manual. Highly recommend we go on the specifics there to go into the IOs, make sure that we have our non inverter diode to make sure that any switches changes, there's no damage or power back to the solar cell. That's very important. So very key that when we're doing these features applications, we follow the instructions for the user manual. They're they're specifically made for, the long term use of this application and make sure that all the devices are protected accordingly. This is with more specifics here on the tank look at probe assignment. So when the tank is empty, when there's a probe error, what the VFD and the pump should do when the tank is full. Low threshold, high threshold, all the configuration is there and available. The idea here, Sean, is that we have this application as a standalone application. There's no need to add any additional hardware. You can do everything from the VFD and the ATV 320 logic inside of the drive and be able to essentially program, configure, work, and do some of these cool application features for the AG and irrigation segments. One of the things that we do want to touch on is the dual supply changeover. How we can switch from the solar to the grid and again could be battery power or some other source of power. It looks like quite a bit of a diagram, but it's very important that we do follow the instructions that we have here and the diagram use of it. Because what we are trying to do here is the VFD itself will tell you when you can switch over from solar back to main power. You have all the relay logic here from connecting onto the DC bus itself, and then the solar main power as well through the relays connecting back to the grid. Essentially, what this does is if you try to do a manual switch when the VFD is not ready, as long as you follow the instructions that we have here, you will not be able to go back into main or solar power unless the VFD, gives you the green light or allows you to do the the switching. So it's a manual switchover that we have available. Couple of important things, as I mentioned before, the nonreversing diode and specific follow the instructions on the installation manual to make sure that we have the right use of this application. Do you have a pre canned assembly that has that in that? In other words, drives and then the enclosure with the switchover all wired up? Yes. Yes. We're we're working on that actually, Sean, to make sure that we have, specifically, a bill of materials, the components, make sure that the panel assembly has the the correct yes. That that is something that we will be, adding to our launch. This is something that we'll work on. Yes. There's obviously more things that we can do here. We can do some of the Boolean, the reference switching, work on preset speeds. So there's a lot of very cool, recommendations that we have on our installation manual, in how to program through the logic, through the VFD parameters, and how to be able to switch between references. If we're using a PID loop, all that will be available through the BFD. Now, obviously, anytime when we go through the DC bus solar, activate the MPPT, and be able to switch into, for example, main and PID and other sources or programming within the BFD itself. So we can get extremely sophisticated, or we can keep the application as simple as possible. Back to your point, we can create a specific bill of materials for those that are interested in being part of the prelaunch and the development of this very cool technology. This usually helps quite a bit to understand what the VFD is doing or how it's gonna operate between essentially a switching of main power. The queue is the flow. These are our flow sources, from solar to grid. The MPP gets activated during the solar process, where there's full sun into the array. It gets shaded. That's when the VFD would create and allow the switch over into the main, main supply for emergency power and then back to the VFD itself. So as you see here on the bottom, MPPT is disabled, obviously, when we go back to the main power source. So I think this is more helpful for those that are more visual as to how that, looks like. Yeah. Basically, if the sun completely goes away, we switch the main power. If the sun comes back strong, we can switch back to solar, which is great. And that's the idea here. Yes. Yep. Another cool thing that we have with a small three twenty compact VFD is having a pump curve in the VFD itself. Imagine being able to get a rough idea of the flow, the head, the power, how it's gonna operate. And as long as we plug in that pump curve, we can actually create a flow estimation based off of that. So we add our 5 points, from the pump curve, program them onto the VFD, and it'll create a reasonably accurate flow estimation of, what the pump is there. This completely eliminates the need for a flow meter. But if you somehow do need to be very precise, the VFG can read a pulse counter and be very precise into how much water we're flowing and even use that for invoicing or measuring purposes. So this is another way we can use, a volume counter. A volume counter would either read from the VFD flow estimation or from the pulse counter and let you know how much daily or total volume and flow you are getting based on the reset that you program onto the VFD. So going back to our very cool diagrams, this is what it looks like. The flow estimation on the bottom based off the VFD itself, and then the pulse counter, how to set that up, program, calibrate, and do our volume counter on the right, whether it's the daily counter or the reset counter, with whatever we program onto their monthly, yearly, and be able to record the flow. Antijon is also a very cool feature that we have onto the Altavar 3 20 solar. It essentially will go forward or reverse if it, senses a blockage on the impeller to be able to flush that rag or, pollutant back into the system. Very important here that we put the minimum speed on forward and reverse that we can get from the pump manufacturer, and we have the instructions on the installation in user manual as well to make sure that we do that properly. This is really, the best way to program this would be via through our free software, the SoMove, where you can look at the graph, the forward, reverse, the acceleration, and program everything. You can also program through the dials or a, rhmi, the v w 3 a 111 y. Dry run prevention is also something we have in the VFD itself. So if there's a lot of air, there's not enough, water, we also prevent the pump from running to make sure that we don't damage, the motor. So this will help reduce downtime and make sure that, the, VFD and motor are protected for those circumstances. Alright. So that's pretty much it for the the features that we have available on the VFD itself. Heavily segmented towards pumps, ag, and irrigation. If you wanna go here to some of the selection and sizing, we can definitely go through some of that. But before we run into this on how to size the VFDs in the solar, Anything else you would like to add to the conversation here, Sean, or any questions that you have from some of the stuff that we've gone through so far? No. I think it's excellent. And I I would ask the audience, what are your thoughts? Do you guys have applications where you might use this on? Do you could you get away with no batteries in your system? Would you do a a tie in to the line power? I'd love to hear what the audience is thinking at this point, guys. Feel free to, you know, comment wherever you're listening or watching, comment on the show and let us know what your thoughts because you guys are out there in the field doing this. I'm I'm I'm in here doing the interview with Nick. So I'm really curious to know what you guys are thinking. So and let me, toss it back to you, Nick. Yeah. Thanks, again Sean. It's important to know that when you're working with Schneider, when we're working together with our distribution partners, we're here throughout the whole process. We have a solar sizer tool. We can do it through our simplest Excel spreadsheet. Here are some data. We also have some very specific formulas to calculate the number of solar array panels. Also, if we have, let's say, not enough square footage on the farm or or on the application itself, let's please keep in mind that there's different types of solar cells out there. There is the monolithic, there's the photovoltaic, and then, I believe there's another one. But depending on this specific type of solar cell that you're using, that's gonna change the amount of, real estate and square footage that your solar, array is gonna land. So that's also important to note. We're gonna help you throughout that selection process. With the cut sheets, make sure you have enough area. We have our experts to help panel everything top to bottom to make sure that this is a working application for our customers. And we finally got into this. I know you we've touched quite a bit on this is going from the cell or cell DC bus directly onto the VFD. Very clearly, no need for another solar inverter. You can actually put multiple, solar VFDs on a solar array. And we have the specific instructions on how to do that, the protection fusing, the UL rating that we have on that. It is a PV SCCR, very unique to that industry. Again, very important, nonreversing diode blockage here for the solar cell for protection, the distances that you need to make sure that you have the right distance from the plus and the minus. And, yeah, very important to make sure that you're putting the plus to the plus and the minus to the minus and and not the other way around. Yeah. I could see if you had a very large solar array, this kind of common bus topology would be so efficient, you know, especially if you had multiple pumps. Right? So having multiple drives, all on that same bus with the solar panel makes a lot of sense. Absolutely. Yes. And frankly, I think this is just very unique, very innovative. And, just thinking about working with many of you on putting some of these green solutions together that just get that useful power from the solar cell. I just can't wait. Yeah. No. You know, I noticed that the drives are interconnected with an analog Mhmm. And daisy chained together. Is that for the MTTP so they know what everybody else is doing? So, yeah, we we have a couple of of different things that we can program there. We have the master slave function that we can use, and we also have, a following function. So the PBSA here feature is essentially mentioning which pump to operate. So there's a couple of different things we can do depending on on on the need of the application. So it's it's essentially to make sure that our VFDs are communicating to each other and especially if there's, let's say, a good way to think of it, a pressure sensor where you have maybe the first VFD running at 1st level. If, the pressure sensor calls for demand, the second first and second VFD turn on, and then the third VFD will turn on. So there's many things that we can do there connecting the VFDs with each other. Yes. Nice. And the ATV logic. So highly recommend that if you haven't looked at my previous podcast, we're going to some detail as to how to do ATV logic, these function blocks, the Boolean, and, how to do some simple applications. The goal here is that we do everything from the BFD itself. So all these arithmetic, please take advantage of that. If we do have time to proceed in, Sean, I do have a sample that I could share with the group here of what we did with some of the Solr functions and the LAD so that we can alert operators depending on the path how fast it's blinking, if it's in a specific function, if it's running, if it's stomp stopping, or if it's at fault. So that's something that we did for the HV logic for our customers here. The one that used this for tanks, pumps, and and irrigation. Yeah. If anybody's listening, this is kinda like it looks like, function blocks with, like, your standard gates inside a lot of the blocks. So it looks really cool. You get your inputs. You get your outputs. You get, like, where you can drop all the function blocks on the grid. It looks very user friendly as well how you're wiring everything together and, you know, looping things around. So, I think very intuitive for anybody out there's done any type of function block programming. And then going towards the end here, we'd still have our safety functions available like we do in our our Altiva r three twenty. We wanna do this for machines, make sure we have necessary safeties when opening panels to turn, the motor, the VFD, the pump off. We have that available as well. Safe door cuff, safe stop 1, SLS, the maximum speed, car lock, on the door. If you use the 312 solar, we do have some guidance here as to how to go from the 312 to the 320. Physical dimensions will be the same, IOs will have some minor differences, and we have the old versus the new model number as well. The other thing I would recommend Sean and this is really towards the end of the presentation just, we're approaching the final slide here. The getting started with Altivar Solaright TV 320, that's another useful video I recommend for those that have the VFD on hand, they want to figure out how to go through some of our parameters, program via SoMove, how to put the motor nameplate onto the VFD. This is a good getting started instruction, YouTube video that we have for our audience here as well. Let me ask you a question about SoMove. You said I think you said it was free. Correct? Oh, absolutely. Yes. So what do I need to connect my laptop to the drive? The because, you know, using the front of the drive is you know, that's great and all. But if there's a free software tool, I think I would prefer to use that. But as far as connectivity, right, do I is there a cable I need to buy from Schneider to go from laptop to the drive? Yes. There is. And and that cable really, Sean, is there for those that require admin rights to, connect onto other devices. So it helps, bypass some of that, correct, and connect to the VFD. But you could really use just standard, Ethernet cat cable to go into the VFD and straight from your computer as well as unless you have the right, admin rights there. You can do that as well. So move, via the network. There's just so many ways that we can go into the, computer and the VFD. But I highly recommend simple applications. You have your programmer right in front of the VFD to use our specific cable. I'm happy to add what that model is. It if you Google, so move cable, it is a long model number. Okay. And that is pretty much it, Sean. I really appreciate you having me. We can go through some final questions, and I'm just tremendously excited to work on some of these unique applications with our audience, our customers, and do something different, in the industry out there. I think this is gonna save a lot of headaches with remote applications. There's just so many ideas here for energy savings, portable machines, you name it. I think there's just a lot we can cover with this. Yeah. Too. And I I know if you're trying to cut your electric bill down and you have solar, but you're like you know, this this gives you a way to say, look. Hey. If the sun is shining bright, we can run these drives off of the solar panels. And then, hey. If the sun goes away, we can go back across the line and use power. But, no. I just there's all kinds of great ideas. I can't wait to hear what our, listeners have to say to chime in. I know a lot of them are driving right now or walking, but, we love to hear you guys when you, when you get back to wherever you are and where you'll and where you can, give us some feedback. And, of course, you guys know how to find your local Schneider Electric, you know, representative. They're all over the world. They're all over the place just like all the major vendors are. But, Nick, I really I'm excited to have you on. I think I'm the first podcast you've come on to talk about this. So thank you for not only coming back, but for choosing The Automation podcast to be where you kind of debut the, the early launch of this. And, just really appreciate you coming on. Yeah. Absolutely. We're very excited that we did our, our review here. This is really our prelaunch presentation. And, yeah, many of your listeners, this this will be the first time hearing of our ATV 3 20 prelaunch. And, there's not a lot of 3 20 solar applications that have all these features and, certifications on UL. So, for those panel builders that were just waiting for that UL, VFD that can do all this, it's it. We have it. It's out there. That's awesome. Alright, Sean. Really appreciate it. Very excited that we spent some time together and encourage you or the audience to please do reach out and happy to help you through this. Well, I hope you enjoyed that episode, and I wanna thank Nick for coming on the show and bringing us up to speed on the Altavar Solar ATV 320. I thought that was a really cool product. I also think it was cool that Schneider sponsored this episode so we could bring it to you ad free. 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