How does the Mico Pro Work

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Hi, I am Kevin Berger with Scott Equipment Company, and we are going to talk about the Mico Pro from Murrelektronik and why you should be using it too.

Hi, I am Kevin Berger here from Scott Equipment Company. I am product manager and today we are going to talk about the Murrelektronik Mico Pro current monitoring system. The Mico Pro system allows you to put more breakers into a smaller space in your panel, saving panel space and saving money on the panel.

It also enables you to have more features over a standard breaker. One of those features is that the Mico Pro can send an output saying, hey, channel four is tripped. So, you can see from a PLC, see from external light of some kind, that channel four is tripped and channel four can be set up or can be labeled saying it is outfeed table to present or whatever it needs to be. The Mico Pro system also enables you to have adjustable channels. So as the system grows, as it expands, as parts are replaced, you do not have to change with the breaker, you can just adjust the setting on the front of the slice.

One of the other nice features of it is it will tell you when a channel is approaching trip. So, you can see, hey, this sensor just put on there is too big for the system and I need to make an adjustment. Or we put a motor on there and it is just too much for that channel.

So, what I want to show you about the Mico Pro system, is I have Murrelektronik demo case, which has a fully functional Mico Pro demo as well as a Murrelektronik Emparro power supply.

What you see in front of you now is the Murrelektronik Mico Pro demo system. So, what you have is your power input to the system, you have a single channel, a two-channel output, a four-channel breaker system, a dual channel fixed breaker and a two-channel adjustable. So, with these, you have nine protected channels. And the adjustable channels are quite easy, you hold the button on the bottom for a few seconds. You will see the channel is disabled and the red light and the indicator for the current is blinking. You can cycle that through, on this one is between one and ten. They also have an 11 to 20. So, you have plenty of power options for most 24-volt circuits you are going to run into.

And over here, you have an okay light, which says that the channel is running. As you can see, I can turn off the channel and the okay light turns off. I turned it back on, it turns on. Using the jumper lead, I am connected to the output of the channel, and this is set up as a dead short to the power supply.

So, I short out the circuit and I have a red light telling me that the circuit is disabled, and which circuit is disabled. I have also lost my external, okay light, which is again telling me that I have a circuit problem. Now I can either reset it with an external button, which brings all back to happy. Or if I trip it again. Again, blinking light, red alarm light and no okay light. I can reset on the Mico. But that is a two-step process. So, either way, it is easy to do. And this button can be a physical button, it can be a physical switch, it also can be an output from a PLC that says, hey, the operators told me it is okay to turn it back on.

So, the other functionality is you can also just turn off the entire device with a single control from the PLC or from a physical switch. That is good if you have a modular system where maybe you need to take part of it off because one part does not use it or you are doing maintenance on that section, but that is not required to run production. So, you can turn off the power at the connection, you are not running power out to a live plug. But you are also do not have to turn off the entire system and unwire a bunch of stuff or turn off a bunch of individual breakers and to remember which breaker it is in the future. Again, one button turns back on.

So, the other functionality is this potentiometer acts as a variable load. So, when you get up into the 90s 95 or the 90 to 99% range, you have a different output telling you that you are approaching the limit. You can also see on the Mico Pro itself with the blinking channel. And there is a green blinking light versus the red light earlier from the short. So just to show you the difference, I get shorted out again and I have the red light telling me that that channel is shorted out; versus the green light blinking telling me that the channel is approaching the set points. And if I go all the way over again, just like a short trips out. But again, no matter what you do, it is really easy to reset. Either the button on the front or the actual button.

So, the last thing I want you today is a disconnect power. I can pull the power bars which are just again bus bars, and I can pull the entire channel out. These channels are modular. It is easy to change out from these two channels six-amp output to another single channel or another four channel or something else, or even just remove it because that part of the machine is obsolete, and you do not need anymore. So, you can pull out the channel you do not need, slide over the channels you still need. Reconnecting it is easy. Just plug that in, put your busbars back in. Plug the power lead back in and the systems off and running.

Thanks for watching. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your local account manager, call the main line 800-222-2923 Or feel free to email us at sales at Scotteq.com.