Ensuring functional safety
4.6 Commissioning the safety-related brake
4.6
Commissioning the safety-related brake
Inadequately qualified personnel
If the safety-related brake is electrically installed by inadequately qualified personnel, then the
functional safety will be disabled.
Only qualified personnel are authorized to carry out the work.
Such personnel must be trained in:
• Topics relating to functional safety
• Legislation, safety regulations and standards for functional safety
• The content of the detailed operating instructions provided
Commissioning components
Never commission incompletely installed or incompletely connected components
Hazardous voltages, rotating parts, hot surfaces
Before commissioning, attach all covers. This prevents coming into contact with active/live,
rotating or hot parts.
Attach the covers so that the motor cooling is not obstructed.
Commissioning the brake
When commissioning the brake, run it in to achieve the specified characteristic torques.
You can run-in the brake by applying a braking energy of 5 x W
capacity per switching operation) distributed over 10 braking operations.
For the calculation, take the necessary formulas and values from the configuring notes
provided in Catalog D50.1.
Note
Required checks
The following list does not claim to be complete.
Additional checks and tests in accordance with the situation specific to the particular installation
site are also required.
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SIMOGEAR Safety-related brake
Operating Instructions, 01/2024, A5E53220852A/RS-AA