Product Overview; Purpose; Equipment Levels; Size Of The Valves - Festo MPAC-VI Manual

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Product overview

2 Product overview
2.1

Purpose

The valve terminal is based on a modular structure and creates the following connections:
– Common ducts for supply and exhaust air
– Electrical signals from all solenoid coils
Working ports (2) and (4) are provided for each valve position on the individual sub-bases. Common
ducts and connections in the basic components supply the valves with compressed air (operating pres­
sure and pilot pressure) and discharge the exhaust air (exhaust air of the valves and pilot exhaust air).
The valve terminal can be supplemented by additional components for compressed air supply or flow
restriction, e.g. to supply pressure zones.
Depending on the types of valve used, the following valve terminal operating modes can be used:
– Standard operation with one or more pressure zones
– Reversible operation with compressed air supply via ports (3), (5) and exhaust via port (1)
– Low-pressure operation at 0 ... 3 bar
– Vacuum operation at –0.9 ... 0 bar
2.1.1

Equipment levels

The valve terminal is available in the following equipment levels:
Electrical Valve positions
connection
Manifold sub-base VMPAC-AP-...-1
(with grey electronics module
Valve terminal with multi-pin plug connection
Sub-D with 25 pins 1,2,3,4 ... 24
Sub-D with 44 pins 1,2,3,4 … 32
Valve terminal with I-Port interface/IO-Link
Sub-D with 9 pins 1,2,3,4 ... 32
1) With exclusive use of the presented manifold sub-base
2) Electronics module for actuating one solenoid coil
3) Electronics module for actuating two solenoid coils
Tab. 2.1 Equipment levels
2.1.2

Size of the valves

The valve terminal is available in the size MPA14, i.e. the valves have a size of 14 mm.
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1)
2)
)
Manifold sub-base VMPAC-AP-...-2
(with black electronics module
1,2,3,4 ... 12
1,2,3,4 ... 16
1,2,3,4 ... 16
3)
)
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