Using The Product Safely; Supplemental Safety Information; Safety Precautions - YASKAWA GA700 Technical Manual

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Using the Product Safely

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Supplemental Safety Information

The following labels are used in this manual to categorize and emphasize important safety precautions.
Read and understand this manual before installing, operating or servicing this drive. The drive
must be installed according to this manual and local codes.
The following conventions are used to indicate safety messages in this manual. Failure to heed these messages
could result in serious or fatal injury or damage to the products or to related equipment and systems.
Indicates a hazardous situation, which, if not avoided, will cause death or serious injury.
Indicates a hazardous situation, which, if not avoided, could cause death or serious injury.
Indicates a hazardous situation, which, if not avoided, could cause minor or moderate injury.
Indicates a property damage message.
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Safety Precautions

• Some of the diagrams in this instruction manual are drawn with covers or safety shielding removed to explain particular details. When
operating the product, be sure to return the prescribed covers and safety shielding to their original positions, and to follow the
descriptions in this instruction manual.
• The diagrams in this instruction manual are representative examples, and may differ from the product as actually delivered.
• The instruction manual are subject to change as necessary due to improvement of the product, change in specifications, and
improvement in the usability of the instruction manual itself.
• If this instruction manual is damaged or lost and a new one must be ordered, contact your Yaskawa representative or the nearest
Yaskawa sales office shown on the rear cover of the manual, and inform them of the document number on the front cover.
Heed the safety messages in this manual. Failure to comply will result in death or serious injury.
The operating company is responsible for any injuries or equipment damage resulting from failure to heed the
warnings in this manual.
Do not perform inspections or wiring while the drive is energized. De-energize all devices before
carrying out any wiring or repair operations. Voltage will remain within the capacitors inside the
drive even after the power has been switched off. The Charge LED is extinguished once the DC
bus voltage goes below 50 V DC. To prevent electric shock, always wait for at least the amount
of time indicated on the warning labels and confirm that all indicators are OFF. Then, remove the
front cover and terminal cover, measure the input power supply voltage and the DC bus voltage,
and make sure that the voltages have been lowered to safe levels.
Failure to comply may result in death or serious injury.
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