Installation of Clotho - Lachesis - Atropos
Some basics for the 3 Drive-Units:
- Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos operate on 24 VDC via an external Power Supply. Part of and supplied by PerfuseCell with voltage input ranging 110-230 VAC, see - https://cronus-pcs.com/products/eos-power-supplies
- In Europa and other geographical areas, the 230 VAC 50 Hz power supply is predominant
- In USA, Canada the 110-120 VAC 60 Hz is predominant
- Cabinet physical dimensions can be seen on this link - Hephaestus
Clotho is equipped with OD6 mm one-touch fittings for supply of pressurized air and OD8 mm one-touch fittings for vacuum supply and OD8 for Drive Gas outlets for channel A and B. For use in USA an adapter going from 6 mm to 5/16" is part of the kit (5/16" = 7.95 mm).
Lachesis and Atropos use larger one-touch fittings.
For ease of use PerfuseCell recommend to operate with different hose colors and soft material hoses connected between Drive Units and diaphragm pumps.
Photo from left show a set of Nylon and the more flexible transparent blue polyurethane (PU) hose. Photo 2 show the many connections on the front of Clotho Drive Unit with two transparent PU tube connections for the Clio or Thalia. Photo 3 show the 3 different colored hoses connected to Clotho Drive Unit and two blue transparent PU hoses for Drive Gas to the SUPs.
Nylon-12 material hose for more stationary application which do not need to be moved around.
- Green for vacuum supply – Drive Unit top left (better, lower than 0.1 Bar absolute, preferably 0.05 Bar) - vacuum need larger hoses as to the reduced pressure different as to the physics of vacuum
- Blue for dry pressured air supply – Drive Unit top right (2 - 5 Bar atmospheric)
Polyurethane (PU) material transparent blue flexible hose supplied by SMC for applications where flexibility is important.
- Blue transparent for Drive Gas connection – centre of Clotho front panel for channel A and channel B
Left photo show connections and the little black USB / WiFi adapter (models from 2026 have a specific WiFi antenna). Center photo shows a complete Cronus tower (Clotho, Sarpedon, 2 x Alagonia) and Clotho connected to the two red LASER sensors and needed hoses. Left photo quite unique range of ATF P-SUP on MST with Thalia pump and TFF P-SUP with integrated Clio pump.
The Cronus-PCS units are designed to be stacked in any direction. See - https://cronus-pcs.com/support/hephaestus-cabinets