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Tunstall Corporation 
118 Exchange Street • Chicopee, MA 01013 
© July 2014 
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Phone (413) 594-8695 · Fax (413) 598-8109 
www.tunstall-inc.com • www.maconcontrols.com 
Bulletin-ZMC-ES-0714 
Electric Operators 
ELECTRIC ZONE VALVE ACTUATOR 
ZMC - ES Series
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4) Installation notes 
4.1 Installation with valve adapter 
The valve adapter assortment guarantees a perfect match of the valve drive to almost any valve bottom and heating circuit 
distributor available on the market. Simply snap-on the Macon ZMC-ES to the manually pre-installed valve adapter. 
Screw the adaptor manually 
onto the valve. 
Place the Macon ZMC-ES 
vertically on the valve adap-
tor. 
The Macon ZMC-ES snaps 
onto the valve adaptor with a 
“click” when pressed down 
vertically by hand. 
4.2 Installation position 
Preferred installation position of 
the Macon ZMC-ES is vertical 
or horizontal. An upside down 
position may reduce product life 
through special circumstances 
(e.g. contaminated water). 
Calculation of maximum cable length (copper ca-
ble) for 24 V rated voltage
  L = C x A / n 
  L  Cable length in m 
  K  Constant (269 m/mm²) 
  A  Conductor cross-section in mm² 
  n  Number of Alpha-Actuators
We recommend the following cables for installing 
a 24 V system:
Telephone wire  J-Y(ST)Y  0.8 mm
2
Light plastic-sheathed cable: NYM  1.5 mm² 
Flat webbed building wire:  NYIF  1.5 mm²
Transformer: 
A safety isolating transformer according to EN 
61558-2-6 (Europe) must always be used. Trans-
former dimensioning results from the making ca-
pacity of the Macon ZMC-ES.
Rule-of-thumb formula: 
 P
Transformer
 = 6 W x n 
  n = Number of Actuators 










