Shawn Tierney meets up with Ivan Spronk of Siemens to learn about the SINAMICS G220 Clean Power Drive in this episode of The Automation Podcast.
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Special thanks to Ivan Spronk of Siemens for coming on the show, and to Siemens for sponsoring this episode so we could release it "ad free!" To learn about the topics discussed in this episode, checkout the below links:

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White Paper - Drives Harmonics - Siemens US

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SINAMICS G220 Website

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SINAMICS G220 Catalog

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Siemens Product Configurator (SPC) for quick part number selection and access to data sheets and CAD files

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Siemens energy savings calculator, SinaSave 



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Shawn Tierney (Host): Thank you for tuning back into the automation podcast. My name is Shawn Tierney from Insights and Automation. And this week, I meet up with Iren Sprock from Siemens to learn all about their g two twenty clean power drive. I also wanna thank Siemens for sponsoring this episode so I can bring it to you completely ad free. So with that said, I wanna welcome back to the show Ivan from Siemens to talk about VFDs.

And, this is something we've been wanting to talk about for a while. But before you jump into your presentation, Ivan, could you introduce yourself to our audience for those who maybe didn't catch your last appearance?

Ivan Spronk (Siemens): Thanks a lot for just having me, back to the show here. I got a slide up here that introduces myself. I'm the product manager for the Synamix variable frequency drives for Siemens here in The US. So, yeah, happy to be back on your show. And what I would, like to talk to you about and discuss with you is our latest variable frequency drive.

It's the g two twenty and specifically the clean power drive. This is a best in class solution for a grid friendly power quality when using variable frequency drives. So Shawn, you audience may be wondering why we should discuss power grids and variable frequency drives, but I'll just say if you've been around variable frequency drives or VFDs as I'll refer to them, you've likely had conversations or heard something about VFDs creating or generating harmonics on the power grid.

Shawn Tierney (Host): Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Ivan Spronk (Siemens): Yeah. Or maybe you've, you know, someone in the audience has been involved in a situation where harmonic cur...