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Our products are rigorously tested and cleaned, backed by a 2-year DO Supply warranty.
DO Supply is a global automation parts reseller focused on hard-to-find and obsolete industrial automation products. Based out of Raleigh, NC, we service customers worldwide, providing excellent customer and sales support, as well as offering our top-of-the-line warranty on all parts sold.
Our products are rigorously tested and cleaned, backed by a 2-year DO Supply warranty.
We offer various shipping options from UPS, FedEx Priority Overnight, DHL and similar. We also ship internationally via DHL, FedEx, and UPS.
While other automation experts have some expertise, we have nearly half a century, allowing us to help you find the ideal replacement or repair solution.
We are a leading global supplier of industrial automation replacement parts, dedicated to providing expert support, speed, and reliability. We offer a huge inventory of need-it-now surplus PLCs, drives, motors, HMIs, and more. Trusted worldwide, we supply parts from 1981 to today by manufacturers such as Allen Bradley, GE, Eaton Cutler Hammer, Mitsubishi, Johnson Controls, and more. With an extensive inventory of surplus products, we are sure you will find what you are looking for. Our commitment to quality and service is reflected in our A+ Better Business Bureau rating. We guarantee prompt delivery and responsive support, empowering businesses to streamline operations and enhance productivity through reliable automation solutions
We pride ourselves on being your need-it-now destination, specializing in immediate solutions for hard-to-find and obsolete replacements for PLCs, drives, motors, HMIs, and more.
Save money with our repair service backed by a 2-year DO Supply warranty, serviced by US-based technicians.
As industrial automation specialists, we focus on top brands like Allen Bradley, GE, Eaton Cutler Hammer, Mitsubishi, and Johnson Controls, sourcing hard-to-find and discontinued parts. Our dedicated team ensures quality through meticulous testing and repairs. With fast shipping and exceptional customer service, we offer a seamless experience. Plus, our in-house repair technicians provide repair services for most products.
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For many facilities, uptime is a priority when selecting which equipment to deploy in their line. Because of this, redundancy modules and spares are kept so that high-priority equipment and processes can be repaired with minimal downtime. As you can imagine, this is an effective technique when properly executed. Sometimes these processes are designed so well that they simply chug along for years and years without having to dust off the replacement in the supply cabinet. Drives that have been obtained for replacement now sit on the shelf waiting for the baton to be passed, and it can be years before it does, and plugging them in might just bring more issues. When it comes to storing drives, there is no official expiration date printed on the part, but guidelines for the amount of time a drive can sit without power. This time frame varies across manufacturers: Rockwell’s PowerFlex guidelines specify 2 years, while ABB and Eaton specify 1 year. This is because the electrolytic capacitors...
In the modern age, motor control isn’t as simple as it looks. There’s matching nameplate specifications, determining if the load you’re driving needs certain features like regeneration, or even figuring out if it’s worth futureproofing. With VFDs being so common today, it is easy to assume they are always the better answer. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes, less really is more. If the application only calls for smooth starting and stopping, a soft starter could be the cheapest, simplest, and most cost-effective choice. A soft starter, as the name implies, is a motor controller that gradually and smoothly increases a motor’s speed until its desired RPM, rather than slamming voltage into it all at once. This is a desired feature as its ability to reduce inrush current and limit peak electrical demand on motor start-up reduces mechanical stress on the system and prevents overcurrent scenarios. Source SMC Plus Soft Starters Here To achieve this, soft starters use thyristors, or...
When a plant experiences a planned shutdown, turnaround, holiday outage, or utility maintenance window, one or more PowerFlex drives fail within minutes or hours of re-energization. This is a distinct, recurrent pattern that maintenance engineers in the heavy industry can quickly identify. After years of trouble-free operation, the drive suddenly malfunctions, trips a breaker, or, in the worst situations, literally destroys an IGBT module. It is a foreseeable result of power electronics deteriorating when idle, contaminants and moisture building up when a drive isn’t producing heat, and a plant’s restart cycle interacting with both. The difference between considering every shutdown-related failure as a mystery and creating a restart strategy that stops it is an understanding of these mechanics. The internal parts of a PowerFlex drive are designed to operate continuously or almost continuously. Long-term proper operation of the DC bus electrolytic capacitors, IGBT gate driver boards...