Company Overview
EC Fans & Drives (an Epec company) specializes in the design and manufacture of energy-efficient fans and motors for commercial refrigeration applications.
Our technically advanced range of high-efficiency motors and fans offers a solution to companies seeking reliable products as well as high-efficiency capabilities with the best power consumption.
Over the past decade, we have secured a prominent position as one of North America’s most reliable and respected manufacturers of electronically controlled fans and motors.
With sales offices strategically located in Asia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we are able to support our customers’ global requirements and deliver an exceptional level of service to our existing and future customers.
All our products are designed at our United Kingdom engineering facility and manufactured at our facilities in Asia and United Kingdom. Products are manufactured to stringent quality control processes on European-designed production equipment and are inspected by Epec’s quality control personnel prior to shipment. This process ensures that each and every product meets our high and uncompromising specifications.
Our Commitment to Excellence
EC stands for Electronically Commutated, often referred to as a Brushless DC electric motor (BLDC motor) with integrated controller electronics. The integrated printed circuit board-based controller, which is managed by proprietary software, provides pulses of current to the motor windings that control the motor's speed and torque.
Therefore, every manufacturer adjusts their product by application to provide the optimal amount of power to the motor, which makes EC or BLDC motors more efficient than AC motors.
This not only allows us to ensure that each customer’s application has the exact right amount of airflow. We also reduce the amount of energy consumption as we don’t require the customers to use the off-the-shelf pre-set speed, which is not needed in many applications.
EC Motor Solutions
Our business is focused on EC motors, which is why we have created features such as soft start (which requires less energy), developed unique fan blade designs that improve airflow, along with many other small improvements, so that we can help our customers create more energy-efficient products. Along with providing more than 70% more energy efficiency over traditional shaded pole motors and superior performance over most of our EC counterparts, our EC products have several advantages for our customers, along with being more energy-efficient:
- Being more reliable with a two times greater lifespan as a shaded pole motor is another important aspect as to why it is the preferred choice for commercial refrigeration cabinets.
- Our product line has been developed to offer solutions to many different applications, as our EC motors are available both as a combination with a separate impeller and as completely integrated fan solutions with added components such as blades, rings, connectors, and many others.
- The EC axial product line is intended for installation beneath the shelves of refrigerated freezer cabinets along with our larger fans, which have a higher power output for installation in refrigerated display cases.
- Working with our customers, we have developed a product (EXRi-50) with an extremely thin footprint, which allows these fans to fit comfortably in confined spaces with no effect from the higher back pressure encountered in such situations.
- Our entire line of EC Tube Axial Fans (sometimes called computer or box fans) is made with global voltage, so you never have to worry about carrying 2 SKUs in inventory.
- Our EC products are third-party safety approved by global test houses, and many are ATEX approved and conform to the European standard EN IEC 60079-7 and are the preferred choice of many of the largest commercial refrigeration manufacturers for applications involving the use of flammable refrigerants such as R290 (propane).
- Many of our competitors have several different model numbers that can be used for different output power applications from 5W up to 20W. Our ECY Series product, which is designed at a constant speed with an output power of 22 watts, can be used in all these applications.