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Slip Ring Assemblies for Energy and Data Transmission

Slip Ring Assemblies for Energy and Data Transmission
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Slip Ring Assemblies for Energy and Data Transmission

Product catalog summary
General Overview
Conductix-Wampfler offers a diverse range of Slip Ring Assemblies for energy, data, and signal transmission, as well as for gases and fluids. These assemblies are customizable and available in impact-resistant plastic or steel housings, supporting both analog and digital signal transmission across various industrial applications.
Electrical Data
Signal transmission quality is influenced by the entire system, including cables and external interference. Options include internal heaters, encoders, and transparent enclosures for maintenance.
Modular Slip Rings
  • CER Series: Sizes 50-91, supporting high and low power, digital and analog signals, and data communication up to 100 Mbps, suitable for high-volume production machines.
  • CEQ Series: Sizes 70-191, square-shaped for easy connection and compact dimensions, designed for high technical performance and reliability.
  • CEP Series: Sizes 70-90, with a compact circular body, suitable for demanding working cycles.
Fixed Size Slip Rings
Includes CEPE and CEE models, designed for specific applications with fixed dimensions.
ATEX Slip Rings
Designed for explosive environments, including the ARIETE and STAR series, compliant with ATEX standards.
Slip Rings for Data Transmission
Models like ETH/F-ETH/G and IndEth are designed for efficient data transmission.
Fiber Optic Rotary Joints (FORJ)
Used for high-speed data transmission via fiber optics.
Custom-built Slip Rings
Conductix-Wampfler offers custom solutions for specific power and data transmission needs.
Conclusion
Conductix-Wampfler's Slip Ring Assemblies are versatile and customizable, suitable for a wide range of industrial applications, ensuring reliable transmission of power, data, and signals.
Specifications
Slip rings are available in different series such as CEP/SB, MME, MCS, MINOR, CGR, CEPE, and CEE, each with specific features. They vary in size, number of rings, maximum voltage, current capacity, and protection class, handling different power levels, auxiliary functions, and data transmission.
Construction and Materials
Constructed using materials like anodized aluminum, stainless steel, brass, and copper graphite, featuring gold or silver-plated contacts for signal and data transmission. Mechanical parts are made of galvanized steel, with rotary shafts equipped with ball bearings for durability.
Applications
Suitable for use in earthmoving equipment, packaging machines, water treatment plants, and potentially explosive atmospheres, designed to operate in various environmental conditions with protection classes up to IP67.
Options and Customization
Offer various customization options, including special cables, connectors, fluidic joints, and different protection classes, tailored to meet specific customer requirements.
Performance and Reliability
Designed for high reliability and long life, with some models capable of operating up to 10,000,000 cycles, supporting both clockwise and counterclockwise rotation, and can be mounted vertically or horizontally.
ATEX Slip Rings
Designed for use in explosive atmospheres, classified under European Directives 94/9/EC and 1999/92/EC. Key factors for selection include plant type, category, flammable substance characteristics, subgroup, and temperature class.
General Characteristics
Modular, with a maximum voltage of 500 V (AC) and 220 V (DC), and a maximum current of 100 A, protected under IP65, operating at rotational speeds up to 30 rpm, with a working temperature range of -20 °C to +40 °C.
Standard Construction
Materials include cast aluminum, brass, and copper alloy brushes, featuring ball bearings sealed and lubricated for life, with special explosion-proof cables and fittings.
Options
Heating elements and special cables available upon request.
STAR Series
Designed for low voltage applications in explosive atmospheres, used in mines and tunnels, offering high-level safety solutions.
SXD Series
Used in environments with flammable dusts, featuring modular construction, with options for blind and through bore versions, handling power up to 40 A.
Data Transmission Slip Rings
ETH and IndEth series designed for real-time Ethernet transmission, offering maintenance-free solutions with gold-on-gold technology for uninterrupted data transmission.
Fiber Optic Rotary Joints (FORJ)
CFO series provides optical data transmission over rotating joints, suitable for compact applications, constructed from stainless steel for high durability and performance.
General Characteristics
Specifications of an optical system designed for extreme environmental conditions, featuring excellent optical performance for blue, green, and red wavelengths, with low channel crosstalk and high channel isolation.
Optical Characteristics
Includes max. attenuation for channels, cross talk, insulation, and bandwidth at -3dB.
Mechanical Characteristics
Includes max. rotating speed, lifetime, max. tension on optical cables, bending radius, start-up torque, vibration test, and structural shock test.
Environmental Characteristics
Operating temperature, storage temperature, and degree of protection.
Custom-built Slip Rings
Various custom-built slip rings for different applications, including machine tools, theater rotary stages, electrocoating plants, tower cranes, and wind turbines, tailored for specific uses.
Power and Data Transmission
Covers power and data transmission systems, highlighting the use of slip rings for various industrial applications, designed to ensure reliable energy and data transfer.
Conductix-Wampfler Solutions
Offers a range of solutions for energy, data, and fluid media transport, including slip ring assemblies, retractors, balancers, festoon systems, motorized reels, energy guiding chains, conductor rails, and more, customizable to meet specific application requirements.
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Contents General Modular Slip Rings Fixed Size Slip Rings ATEX Slip Rings Slip Rings for Data Transmission Fiber Optic Rotary Joints (FORJ) Custom-built Slip Rings

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General Electrical Data Conductix-Wampfler – an experienced partner Conductix-Wampfler offers a wide range of rotary transmissions for energy, data and signal transmission, as well as for the transmission of gases and fluids. The standard program provides Slip Ring Assemblies for power and data/signal currents with any number of poles. Combinations that include additional rotary transmissions for liquids (water, hydraulic oil, oil, etc.) and gases (compressed air, argon, etc.) are possible. Slip Ring Assemblies can be either supplied as components that can be built into the host machine and adjusted...

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General Example of a Combined Slip Ring Assembly CFO 2 - Fiber Optic Rotary Joint Double brush holder: - Carbon based brushes for 15 A / 50 A / 100 A - ilver based brushes for S mA for controls and signals Printed circuit board with gold wires technology (gold-on-gold contact) for data transmission Terminal board for low power/ control/data rings Direct cables connection on power rings Brush holder 100 A or 150 A. Standard composition up to 2400 A per pole Driving flange with ball bearing turntable

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General A Refined and Comprehensive Standard Program Some examples of slip ring applications: Wrapping machine Transfer machine Stacker/Reclaimer with large bore slip ring Slip Ring in an electrophoresis plant Slip Ring in an amusement ride 7

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CER 50-70-90-91 CER Series Slip Rings are produced in various sizes to meet the needs of each user and application. They are designed to be freely configured, allowing many possible compositions, and combine rings for high and low power, digital and analog signals, and data communication up to Real Time Ethernet 100 Mbps into a single product. The special attention in the design phase and the solution adopted for CERs, allow the applicability of these in areas in which high technical performances, reliability and capability to withstand hard working cycles are needed. Usually these products are...

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CEQ 70-90-91-130-131-190-191 CEQ Series Slip Rings are produced in various sizes to meet the needs of each user and application. The square external shape allows easy connections to brush holders by simply removing the external panels, while also maintaining compact external dimensions. They can be configured with rings for high and low power, digital and analog signals, as well as data communication up to Real Time Ethernet 100 Mbps. The special attention in the design phase and the solution adopted for CEQs, allow the applicability in areas in which high technical performance, reliability and...

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CEP 70-90 CEP Series Slip Rings are produced in various sizes to meet the needs of each user and application. The circular external body is compact. CEP Slip Rings are widely used where high technical performance, reliability, and capability to withstand demanding working cycles are needed. Usually these products are applied on automatic machines for high-volume production like machine tools, rotary tables, spindles, packaging/labeling machines, and filling machines, etc. CEPs, like almost all Conductix-Wampfler electrical Slip Rings, can be coupled with fluidic rotary joints. Standard Construction...

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CEP/SB CEP/SB series Slip Rings are produced in several sizes, up to a maximum of 36 rings to meet customer needs. CEP/SB series Slip Rings can be used for transmitting power, auxiliary, signals, and data. The round shape and high reliability of this product make CEP/SB series suitable to be used on earthmoving equipment, turntables, packaging machines, and in water treatment plants, etc. CEP/SB Slip Rings are particularly suited for being equipped with fluidic rotary joints. Standard Construction General Characteristics Slip Ring type: Modular Pole function: Power up to 100 A, auxiliary,...

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MME 35-50 The MME series is a reliable, cost-effective and proven series of products that seeks to provide the consumer with maximum efficency. A very versatile slip ring due to its unique compactness. These slip rings are suitable for signals or power passage up to a maximum of 12 A. MME slip rings are widely used for packaging, labeling and fillling machines. General Characteristics Slip Ring type: Modular Pole function: Low power, auxiliary, signal, data Test voltage: According to IEC 60947-1 Mounting position: Vertical/horizontal Rotation sense: Clockwise/counterclockwise Standard...

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Modular Slip Rings MCS 35-50 MCS 35 – MCS 50 Slip Rings are high performance devices for the transmission of low power and data. This model of Slip Ring includes gold-on-gold sliding contacts that ensure long life without any maintenance due to the particular lubricant used. It is completely made of stainless steel (also AISI 316L available) and with IP67 protection. All these characteristics make it perfect to be used in applications where robustness, high reliability, and demanding working cycles of 24 hours/day are requested, such as for filling machines in the food and beverage market. General...

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MINOR Conductix-Wampfler introduces the Minor Slip Ring series with ring variety ranging anywhere from 2 to 24 rings. This convenient and unique Slip Ring can be modified and tailored to the customers’ requirements. The Slip Rings can be assembled with a maximum of 24 rings at 20 Amps capacity. The Minor series provides the user with the choice of a pre-wired cable leads of either 1.5 mm2 or 2.5 mm2. The tandem mounted brushes maintain continuous contact and maintain self cleaning throughout the use of the product in order to keep everything constantly moving with as little interruption as possible. The...

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CGR 200-270 CGR Series Slip Rings are produced in two sizes to meet the needs of each user and application. The CGR series can accommodate high and low power, control, and signal/data within the same slip ring. Generally the low power and data/signal section is contained within a CER series Slip Ring inside the CGR. CGR 270 can be provided also with a medium voltage section. The Slip Ring is supplied with low voltage and signals rings pre-wired directly to a terminal board positioned inside the slip ring box. For high-power rings, it is possible for the customer to wire his own cables directly...

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