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Application Notes

General Application Notes


There are a number of Application Notes that have been created by the Control Techniques USA Technical Support team. Too often, application solutions are dealt with externally ( at additional system cost ). These application notes offer some insight into solutions for many common industry applications by exploiting many of the inherent internal ( unknown or mysterious ) functions within Control Techniques products at no additional cost.

The Application Notes tend to be educational in nature, so reading them even if you do not have an immediate application need, tends to give one a better overall understanding of the inner workings and facilities within our products that are available to help solve an application.

Many of the Application Notes utilize our software tools. One can tend to learn these tools by simple observation and thru examples within our Application Notes. We would advise you to download and save the APPLICATION NOTE DIRECTORY within your PC as it contains active web links that can be clicked to download any of the Application Notes directly.

Application Note Directory        
Name Description File Size Rev
Application Note Directory Interactive list of all existing "CTAN" Application Notes pdf 549 kB V3.52


General Application Notes

         
Product Name Description P/N File Rev
AC AC Drive Characteristics AC Drive Characteristics
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DC DC Drive Characteristics DC Drive Characteristics
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ALL Basic Mechanics Basic Mechanics
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pdf
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ALL Electrical Formulas Electrical Formulas
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pdf
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ALL Environmental Considerations Environmental Considerations
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pdf
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Gears Gear Reducers Gear Reducers
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pdf
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ALL Harmonic Guide Harmonic Guide
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pdf
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ALL Inertia Tables Inertia Tables
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pdf
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Motors Motor HP Calculations (1) Motor HP Calculations (1)
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pdf
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Motors Motor HP Calculations (2) Motor HP Calculations (2)
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pdf
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ALL Powerline Considerations Powerline Considerations
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pdf
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ALL Selecting HP Selecting HP
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pdf
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ALL Types of Loads Types of Loads
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pdf
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AC Motors
AC Motors Home Study Course
AC Motors Home Study Course
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pdf
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AC Motors
AC Motor Terminology
AC Motor Terminology
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pdf
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DC Motors
DC Motors Home Study Course
DC Motors Home Study Course
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pdf
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