Series-level lifecycle status in Danfoss' own lifecycle vocabulary — Limited (discontinued, no longer in production; limited spare parts, maintenance and repair while materials last; existing service contracts supported) and Inactive (discontinued; spare parts and service options no longer available) — taken from Danfoss' official legacy-drive product pages and listings on danfoss.com, plus the Danfoss Product Store for the one dated last-order record. It covers legacy low-voltage VLT drives (Micro Drive FC 51, 2800, 3000, 3500, 5000, 6000, 8000), decentral drives (FCD 300, FCM 300, FCM 106), VACON low-voltage legacy drives (NXL, CX, 10, 20 X, 20 Cold Plate, X4/X5), FlexMotion servo drives (MSD 510, DSD 510, ISD 410, OneGearDrive L09 variants), medium-voltage and system drives (VACON 1000; VACON NXP Liquid Cooled CH3/CH4 enclosures), and soft starters (MCD 500, MCD 100). Danfoss' published migration mechanism for almost every legacy drive is its DrivePro® Retrofit service — named model successors are the exception, and this file records them only where Danfoss names them.
The time-critical record in this file is the VLT® Soft Start Controller MCD 100: the Danfoss Product Store gives a last order date of 17 October 2025 for its product codes — already passed — and its published successor is a brand-crossing one, the Eltwin SMC Soft Starter. Behind it, every Inactive-phase drive in the file (VLT 2800, 3000, 3500, 5000, 6000, 8000; FCM 300 and FCM 106; VACON NXL and CX; MCD 500) has, by Danfoss' own definition, no spare parts or service options left — replacement is the only published path. The file's only other dated record is the VACON® NXP Liquid Cooled CH3 and CH4 enclosure sizes, discontinued in 2021.
Honesty notes: Danfoss publishes lifecycle phases, not dates — 22 of the 24 records carry no discontinuation date because Danfoss does not publish one; the blank cells are Danfoss' record, not missing research. Named successors are the exception: only 10 of 24 records carry one (FC 51 → iC2-Micro, 2800 → FC 280, 8000 → FC 202, FCD 300 → FCD 302, NXL → VACON 100 & VACON 20, MSD 510 → MSD 520, OneGearDrive L09 → L06, VACON 1000 → VACON 3000 Enclosed as "best alternative", MCD 500 → MCD 600, MCD 100 → Eltwin SMC). The iC7 promotional blocks on the VLT 3000/3500/5000/6000 pages rotate by locale and are not recorded as successors. Two official Danfoss pages contradict themselves — FCD 300 is Limited on its product page but Inactive on the decentral listing, and VACON 1000 is labelled Limited while its text denies spare-parts availability — and both are flagged in the file rather than smoothed over. VACON NXS and air-cooled VACON NXP remain current ranges; only the NXP Liquid Cooled CH3/CH4 enclosures are discontinued.
Verification standard: official Danfoss sources only (danfoss.com lifecycle product pages and legacy listings; store.danfoss.com for the MCD 100 last-order date). Phases are reproduced in Danfoss' own Limited/Inactive vocabulary with Danfoss' own definitions; dates are left blank where Danfoss published none; successors are recorded only where Danfoss names them as such ("Successor Product", "replaced by", "Best alternative", "new generation").
| Product Family | Catalog/Series | Lifecycle Status | Discontinuation or milestone date | Recommended Replacement / Migration Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low-voltage drives (VLT) | VLT® Micro Drive FC 51 | Limited — "has reached the Limited phase of its lifecycle and is no longer in active production" (Danfoss legacy-drives listing) | iC2-Micro — "It has been replaced by iC2-Micro"; Danfoss' iC2-Micro page adds it is "designed as an easy replacement for VLT® Micro Drive FC 51" and the FC 51's successor fact sheet calls iC2-Micro its successor | |
| Low-voltage drives (VLT) | VLT® 2800 | Inactive — "has reached the Inactive phase of its lifecycle, which means it is discontinued and no longer in production. Spare parts and service options are no longer available." | VLT® Midi Drive FC 280 — the page calls FC 280 "more than just a successor; it is simply the best alternative" with "full backwards compatibility"; Danfoss also recommends replacement using the DrivePro® Retrofit service | |
| Low-voltage drives (VLT) | VLT® 8000 | Inactive — "is in the Inactive phase and has reached the end of its lifecycle… A drive in the Inactive phase has no spare parts or service options available" (US product page) | VLT® AQUA Drive FC 202 — named on the US page under the heading "Successor Product VLT® AQUA Drive FC 202" (the VLT 8000 was the AQUA predecessor line); DrivePro® Retrofit recommended. Note: the global /en/ page for the same drive currently features an iC7-Aqua block instead — successor presentation varies by locale | |
| System drives (VACON) | VACON® NXP Liquid Cooled — enclosure sizes CH3 and CH4 | Limited — "Enclosure sizes CH3 and CH4 have reached the Limited phase of their lifecycle and were discontinued in 2021." | Discontinued in 2021 (as published; no month given) | No successor enclosure named on the page — in this phase Danfoss offers DrivePro® Spare Parts, DrivePro® Retrofit and, in some cases, DrivePro® Preventive Maintenance |
| Soft starters (VLT) | VLT® Soft Start Controller MCD 100 | Discontinued (Danfoss Product Store listings for the MCD 100 product codes) — the store states the item "will be discontinued and replaced by a new product code"; Danfoss' MCD 100 product page names its successor (see replacement) | Last order date for this product code: 17 October 2025 (Danfoss Product Store, stated per product code across the MCD 100 range, e.g. MCD100-001 / -007 / -011 codes) | Eltwin SMC Soft Starter — named on Danfoss' MCD 100 product page under "Successor product: Eltwin SMC Soft Starter", with the note "For 200 V and 600 V variants, please contact Eltwin distributors" |
Sample rows are copied verbatim from the paid dataset file, including its blank dates where Danfoss published none.
Full file: all 24 series-level records (7 low-voltage VLT, 3 decentral VLT, 6 VACON low-voltage/decentral, 3 servo, 1 geared-drive variant, 1 medium-voltage, 1 system-drive enclosure record, 2 soft starters), each with migration conditions and source URLs, plus per-family migration notes and a coverage-gaps section listing the queue brands checked and skipped before Danfoss (Bosch Rexroth, Emerson, Eaton) and the Danfoss families checked and deliberately excluded. Clean Markdown, compiled 2026-10-21.
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Facts compiled from public OEM lifecycle sources; not affiliated with or endorsed by Danfoss. Trademarks belong to their owners. This is a migration-planning reference, not engineering sign-off. Verify production-critical selections against Danfoss' current lifecycle pages before acting, and re-verify the Limited-phase records (FC 51, FCD 300, MSD/DSD/ISD servo, VACON 1000) at planning time — Limited support ends when materials run out, on Danfoss' own definition.