AQ RANGE
This new AQ range guarantees the essential functions required to operate a valve or a damper in moderate environmental and operational constraints. These new products are even more closer to standard actuation needs than the former FIRST BC generation.
Product specifications
Torque range:
- 15 to 500 Nm (direct mount)
- Up to 200 000 Nm on request
Type of Controls:
- Electromechanical SWITCH
- Integrated LOGIC - New Version (v2)
BC Duty & Modulating Classification:
- On-Off: Class A
- Inching / Positioning : Class B
- Modulating : Class III
Environment: IP 68 / C4 / T: -20°C ...+60°C (-40°C as an option)
Product benefits
Compact & optimized design
- Super compact design, including integrated controls
- Product architecture & torque range adapted to customers’ requirements
- Multi-voltage & multi-frequency products (AQ3L& AQ7L): suitable whatever your location on the globe
- Short delivery time
Reliable design
- BC design methodology built-up on the nuclear market highly demanding requirements
- 80+ years of continuous experience and BERNARD CONTROLS inventor of the compact quarter-turn electric actuator
- Heavy duty design : full aluminium enclosure protected by powder coating Black & Champagne, IP68, low temperature option
- 100% of products tested with automatic process before delivery
Easy to use
- Easy commissioning: pre-wired version (1-phase only), set up of travel limitation system with a standard screwdriver…
- Large LCD display on LOGIC version for user-friendly commissioning and local command. Easily orientable (4-way direction) in few clicks
- Declutch-free manual override: essential for quick intervention
on site - BC APP: Bernard Controls new mobile application for setting, operating, troubleshooting and easy access to documentation
Integrated controls (LOGIC version)
- Turn-key, time & cost-saving solution
- User-friendly & intuitive
- Non-intrusive setting for enhanced safety and reliability
- Compatible with common fieldbus protocols: Modbus RTU, Profibus DPV1.
- Bluetooth communication (as standard) to communicate with Bernard Controls’ BC App