Mount for PD-04P

Good afternoon Pattie.  No, we do not offer a bracket to attach the P Series drive (or any of our other drives) to DIN rail.  There are several reasons for this:

• While convenient, DIN rail is not as rigid or mechanically sound as bolting a drive to a panel.
• Bolting the drive to the panel allows some of its heat to sink to the panel, reducing the likelihood of thermal faults.
• The metal panel provides a much better RF (radio frequency) ground than DIN rail.

A little more on that last point: very often, DIN rail is shipped anodized from the factory and its surface is not conductive at all.  The installer needs to scrape some of the anodize away or rely on the mounting bracket "biting" the rail to get contact.  In any case, this offers very little surface area to be used for grounding, which means electrical noise generated by the drive cannot use the panel as a return path.

I might have given that third point a little more attention than it deserves here, but it is one of those things that is good to know about DIN rail.  High frequency equipment like servo drives should generally not be mounted that way.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Good afternoon Pattie.  No, we do not offer a bracket to attach the P Series drive (or any of our other drives) to DIN rail.  There are several reasons for this:

• While convenient, DIN rail is not as rigid or mechanically sound as bolting a drive to a panel.
• Bolting the drive to the panel allows some of its heat to sink to the panel, reducing the likelihood of thermal faults.
• The metal panel provides a much better RF (radio frequency) ground than DIN rail.

A little more on that last point: very often, DIN rail is shipped anodized from the factory and its surface is not conductive at all.  The installer needs to scrape some of the anodize away or rely on the mounting bracket "biting" the rail to get contact.  In any case, this offers very little surface area to be used for grounding, which means electrical noise generated by the drive cannot use the panel as a return path.

I might have given that third point a little more attention than it deserves here, but it is one of those things that is good to know about DIN rail.  High frequency equipment like servo drives should generally not be mounted that way.

Please let us know if you have any questions.