WEG DRIVES & CONTROLS Technical Note no.

007
Product Development Department Date: October 2013

PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR USING

CFW-09 AND CFW-11 INVERTERS AND WEG MOTORS
WITH LONG MOTOR CABLES
Norton Petry (e-mail: npetry@weg.net)
Carlos Afonso Hümmelgen (e-mail: carlosh@weg.net)
For applications with CFW-09 and CFW-11 inverters with WEG motors consider the
following:

 All CFW-09 and CFW-11 models present the following at inverter terminals:
 dV/dt  5200V/sec;
 rise time tr  0.1sec;
 minimum time between pulses  6sec;
 switching frequency 5kHz (default values)
These values are in accordance with TBG-906 Weg standard requirements, for line
voltages up to 690V.

 The maximum peak voltage at motor terminals will depend on several factors (*).
The most important is the motor cable length. The following rules are suggested for
deciding about output filters:

Note:
(*) This technical note is not valid in the following applications:
- motor with rated voltage lower than power supply rated voltage;
- inverters used with active front-end converter – e.g.: with CFW-09RB or CFW-
11RB.

Motor cable length L Output filters

L  100m No output filters required
100m < L  300m Output reactor required
(2% voltage drop minimum) (**)
L > 300m Special filter required (consult factory)

Note:
(**)
- The output reactor must be placed close to the inverter (see figure 1).
- The output reactor is required to limit the output leakage current to ground. It avoids
the ground fault error (E11 in CFW-09 and F074 in CFW-11).
- The output reactor must be designed for withstanding additional losses created by
high frequency motor ripple current and leakage current. This last one increases as
cable length increases. For longer motor cables and small current designed reactors
there is a big influence of leakage current in reactor losses and heating. The
additional reactor heating must be also considered in panel cooling system in order
to guarantee safe ambient temperature operation.

L1= input (line) reactor – selection criteria according to item 8.7 of the inverter CFW-
09 manual (note that it’s only necessary for CFW-09 inverters)
L2= output (load) reactor – must be placed close to the inverter.

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Figure 1- Details of the installation of the input and output reactors

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