Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
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I am looking for a connector or connection "shoe" (or plate) that allows me to automatically connect a battery on a material handling vehicle to a charger at a charging station.
Can anyone give me any pointers?
Thanks!
Ralph
Can anyone give me any pointers?
Thanks!
Ralph





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http://www.eurocomp.net/e-power-connectors.htm
I call them Forklift Connectors or Golf Cart Connectors. They are also used for the aux starting battery connector on race cars.
RE: Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
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RE: Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
I would assume that *Automatic Connection* ment humans need not apply. Shove, park, or drive some material handling machine into its home parking spot and this event alone, connects it to the charger.
I'm near a Lipton's plant and they have these material handling robots scuttling all over the place unattended. I could imagine having them charge themselves, would be a virtue.
But this is all smoke anyway cuz I think the OP hit and ran us.
RE: Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
What I mean by "Automatic Connection" is that when the vehicle comes to it's home position it automatically (without operator - or mouse:) - intervention begins to re-charge itself. I think the Automatic Guded Vehicles (AGVs) you see in large assembly plants use some sort of spring loaded copper plates. I was hoping I could find a standard off-the-shelf component rather that designing our own from scratch.
RE: Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
Honestly, I think you will have to roll your own.. The variations would be so large for different applications and they would be cheap enough to have built that there won't be any one producer and marketing them would be pointless... So just design what you need and get them built.
RE: Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
For some design ideas have a look at the connection spouts used for MV switchgear - the 3.3 / 6 / 11kV class. I'm not suggesting actually using them as they are almost certainly overspec'd for what you need, but the connector design is intended to reliably mate a breaker truck weighing maybe half a tonne to a live switchboard. There will be design elements which could be well suited to your application.
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RE: Connection for Automatic Battery Recharging on Matl Handling Cart
Of course if there are any attractive ladies operating the material handling carts, then the supervisor would have to jump on the back, lean over them to steer with one hand, whilst the other graps the power pick up pole and try to seduce them.
Judging by all the bumper car operators I've seen anyway.
Not helping the OP much here am I.
Back on topic: is this a "plug" mounted on the cart that you would simply push up and into a socket on the charging station to recharge, or does it need to physically guide the cart in automatically?
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http://www.vahleinc.com/pdf/CAT1B2001/1B_E_98.PDF
Ralph
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