Festo MPA-S - Replacing the Sub-Base, Supply Plate or MPA-S End Plate

5 Conversion and maintenance
Festo – P.BE-MPA-E N – 1309f – English 111
Note
Before mounting, check the condition and position of the following seals:
– The seals of the electronics module
– Ring seal of the electrical contacts
– The cord seal of the valve plates or blanking plates
Proceed as follows:
1. Place the electronics module in the sub-base and fasten it (tightening torque of the screws 0.4 Nm
(±20 %)).
2. Then mount the valve or blanking plates ( section 5.3.4).
5.3.7 Replacing the sub-base, supply plate or MPA-S end plate
Dismantling
Proceed as follows:
1. Disconnect the electrical and pneumatic connections and then remove the MPA-S valve terminal
from its mounting surface (  se ction 3.2).
2. Place the MPA-S valve terminal on a flat working surface.
3. Loosen the screws of th e component (sub-base, supply plate or end plate) you wish t o remove in
the sequence 3, 2, 1.(  Fig. 5.6).
1
2
3
Fig. 5.6 Position of the fittings on sub-bases and the r igh t end plate
4. Then loosen and remove the screws. Loosened sub-bases are now held tog ether only by the elec-
trical interlinking or by the bus.
5. Pull the corresponding component away from the adjacent component.