Exemplary Safety Contactor Wiring
The purpose of a safety relay is to assure a safe working environment for individuals performing work on a section of a machine which has not been electrically locked out or to stop motion of the machine if a person has entered an unsafe location.
Safety contactor wiring. The answer to this is that the term safety contactor does not appear to have any clear definition within the safety of machinery standard iec bs en 60204 1 or within iec bs en 60947 4 1 the standard associated with contactors. Any lapses and wrong connections can prove fatal for the people living in a home or commercial building. This design feature avoids the possibility of personnel creating an unsafe state due to unexpected start up.
When applying safety contac tors in safety circuits the nc auxiliary contacts must be wired in series or parallel and must be used as monitoring contacts with feedback to the safety evaluation device i e. Designed for machine safety applications afs contactors come with factory mounted contact blocks mechanically linked and mirror contacts making them ideal for monitoring and controlling circuits. In as nzs 4024 1502 the prevention of unexpected start up is defined as a basic safety principle required for category b 4.
The contacts of the safety switch must be both closed or both open. Our bulletin 100s safety contactors use mirror contacts to provide safe isolation of hazardous motion loads. S33 s34 s43 s44 y4 y5 y6 y7 l y1 y2 l 13 14 23 24.
There have been umpteen. Safety relay or failsafe logic controller. This is the reason why all jobs of electrical wiring should be performed by a licensed and experienced electrician.
Abb s complete range of safety components make protection systems easier to build. Electricity is dangerous because of the risks of shock and fire associated with it. At power on no different signals are allowed at the two input circuits s33 s34 and s44 s43.
Mirror contacts provide reliable indication about the open or closed status of the main power poles. In case of a faulty wiring of the inputs the unit goes to the fail safe state safety deactivation. However schneider electric does have contactor products with mirror contacts that can.