ABE040 system racks are used to house hardware for the machinery protection and/or condition monitoring systems.

Two types ABE04x system rack are available: the ABE040 and the ABE042.

These are very similar, differing only in the position of the mounting brackets. Both racks have a standard height of 6U and provide mounting space (rack slots) for up to 15 single-width modules (card pairs), or a combination of single-width and multiple-width modules (cards). These racks are particularly suitable for industrial environments, where equipment must be permanently installed in 19″ cabinets or panels.

The different versions of ABE04x system rack enable different mounting options to support various markets and applications.

The system rack has an integrated backplane which provides the electrical interconnections between the installed modules (cards): power supply, signal processing, input /output, relay and CPUx “rack controller”. It also includes a power supply check relay, available at the rear of the rack, which is used to indicate that the installed RPS6U rack power supplies are operating normally.

Alternatively, a rack can have two RPS6U power supplies installed in order to either support rack power supply redundancy or in order to supply power to the modules (cards) non-redundantly over a wider range of environmental conditions processing modules (cards) are installed in the front of the rack and the associated input/output modules (cards) are installed in the rear. The input/output modules (cards) provide connectors for the connection of sensors/measurement chains and for the sharing of various signals with external systems such as a DCS or PLC.

In general, ABE04x system racks are configured in the factory before delivery so they are supplied ready-to-use. Optionally, each module (card) can be reconfigured to meet the needs of a particular machinery monitoring application using the appropriate software package.