Valve Islands

Valve islands are a combination of several pneumatic valves with combined pneumatic connections and common power supply on a base plate. They reduce installation time, can be individually configured and can be installed directly.

For companies that value high pneumatic functionality and electrical modularity, valve islands are just right. The optimised valve islands variants for control cabinet installation are particularly attractive, also with terminal strips for increased corrosion protection.

The EB80 valve island is modular and can be connected to all common fieldbus protocols or to IO-Link. It simultaneously controls up to 128 valves with fieldbus or 38 multi-pin valves. By means of the signal modules, up to 40 separate EB80 valve terminals are assembled into one large control unit.

Due to the minimum power consumption of the valve coils of 0.3W and the short pulse duration for safe switching, the holding power is significantly reduced compared to other valve batteries. This guarantees lower temperatures and saves energy.

The compact EB80 valve islands have a high flow rate even with their small width of 14 mm. All valve functions from 2/2-way to 5/3-way are covered in the same valve size. The individual pneumatic valves are equipped with two captive M4 screws and are easily attached to the base plate. They can be quickly replaced or extended without having to dismantle the entire valve group.

As a new module, the EB80 valve terminal can be expanded with an electronically controlled, proportional pressure regulator, which is easily and flexibly installed in the valve terminal. Up to 16 regulators can be integrated within a valve island. Proportional pressure regulators are used when individual elements or branches in the compressed air supply need to be specifically controlled.

The fieldbus connection can be controlled directly via the valve terminal and is available for all common bus systems such as Profinet IO, Profibus DP, IO-Link 32 IN +32 OUT, IO-Link 64 OUT, CANopen, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, Powerlink and CC-Link. For the variant with multi-pole connection, we supply a separate M-12 connector for communication. Connection to IO-Link is possible with a corresponding control module. The proportional pressure regulators are available with or without display and membrane keypad and as manual or remote control only.

As standard, the EB80 valve terminals and the new proportional pressure regulators have IP65 protection. Thanks to an internal overpressure compensation system of each controller, we achieve this degree of protection without loss of accuracy.

Benefit from valve islands that offer greater energy efficiency, optimum air consumption and excellent value for money. Contact us by phone on +41 (0)41 780 22 22 or info@tri-matic.ch.