Limit switches
Limit switches
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are there any hydraulic "limit switches" that can cut the flow of oil to a motor when the component part has reached a certain destination and needs to be slowed down or otherwise stopped?
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RE: Limit switches
There are also deceleration valves that do as the name suggests. They slow a moving obeject by mechanically limiting the rate of flow to or from an actuator such as a cylinder or a motor.
Hydromech
RE: Limit switches
Can you give me any vendors/vendor products to check out
as possible hydraulic limit switches?
RE: Limit switches
Why can't you use an electric Limit Switch?
Bud Trinkel CFPE
HYDRA-PNEU CONSULTING, INC.
http://www.fluidpower1.us
RE: Limit switches
RE: Limit switches
Crouzet http://www.crouzet.com/ or others offer pneumatic limit valves with many options that are available in electriv Limt Switches.
Bud Trinkel CFPE
HYDRA-PNEU CONSULTING, INC.
http://www.fluidpower1.us
RE: Limit switches
I don't know of any in the US as I am in England.
Cam operated valves are quite common so it should be quite easy to get hold of some.
Stopping the motion of something by removing the pilot will cause the object to decelerate very quickly. Counterbalance and overcentre valves are motion control valves, not flow control valves.
If you remove the pilot line to a motion control valve, it will slam shut very quickly and all of the inertia in the moving load will be taken up by the actuator and the oil inside the system, causing a huge pressure spike.
If you want to use a valve to control the pilot signal to a motion control valve, it will have to have 3 ports to allow the pilot line to drain away after the valve has closed. Otherwise the motion control valve will remain open because the pilot line is hydraulically locked.
Stopping a load using a motion control valve to stop the flow is a bad idea!
It's better to use a mechanically operated flow control valve.
If you do end up using cam operated valves, you need to make the cam as long as possible to make the load decelerate slowly and the valve must go on the line coming out of the actuator otherwise the load will carry on moving after the valve has shut.
Hope this helps...
Hydromech
RE: Limit switches
http://hydraulics.eaton.com/products/pdfs/682.pdf
They are only good for about 10 GPM but could be used to operate higher flow Hydraulic Pilot Operated Directional Control Valves.
Bud Trinkel CFPE
HYDRA-PNEU CONSULTING, INC.
http://www.fluidpower1.us