How to do KeyPad Source of operation Setting in Allen Bradley VFD

This article is about source of operation of allen bradley vfd by keypad. How to control the motor using your vfd's keypad. This keypad is on the top your variable frequency drive and you can control your motor's speed by that keypad.

Alright, so how to do setting of parameters of allen bradley variable frequency drive. The parameter p106 is the parameter of changing the source of operation in allen bradley vfd. This p106 parameter will decide which source of controlling of frequency you are going to use. P106 is actually the start source. You should stop drive before changing this parameter and sets the control scheme used to start the drive.

If you enter 0 value in parameter p106, which is actually by default value. That will cause you the drive to operate using keypad. The p106 parameter of allen bradley vfd means you are controlling your drive's frequency or motor's speed from the keypad of the drive. Please watch this video tutorial from below for more better understanding.