Intelligent Pump Controllers

A number of companies have pump controls on the market.  We’ve designed, installed, and worked on many of them over the years, ranging from irrigation systems to waste water facilities to HVAC water pumps.  VFD s have been routinely applied to pumps both for saving energy, and for offering better process control   In the past,  you commonly sold a drive, and a pump controller, but in recent times, the pump controller has become part of the drive package.

Yaskawa in particular, has their intelligent pump controller, called the iQpump.   The iQPump is an all in one VFD and highly featured pump controller.  Almost anything you’d want in a pump controller, is here. That includes features such as an automatic anti-jam control, impeller de-scale, low city pressure monitors for booster pump systems, lube pump control, and constant pressure well draw-down control. It also has a built in process controller for controlling flow, pressure, or any other process variable.

The unit can operate either one stand alone pump, or you can network them to operate up to 8 pumps.  The software is free, and easy to use.

For those of us in the service business, the keypad reads in pump specific language, rather than what a normal VFD would read.  This is very helpful to both operators and service people.

The unit has also been designed to easily operate on a single phase input.  That’s especially helpful on rural irrigation systems.

These are interesting and useful devices, that we think the market is going to really like.  Yaskawa has a great reputation for quality, and these are very well engineered intelligent pump controls. EMA is proud to be  a distributor for the iQpump .  Click here to download a brochure on the iQpump. (be patient, this is a large pdf file)

Read an archived article about EMA and the irrigation business in Delta Farm Press.

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