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Electric Clutch

Electric Clutch

Electric Clutch

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Who do you guys use for electric clutching pulleys on a belt drive system? We have a diesel engine belt driving a vacuum pump and a wash down pump but we dont want the wash down pump running all the time. We'd like to have it swtiched on an electric clutch so the operator can turn it on and off at his convenience.

RE: Electric Clutch

Google "Pitts Clutch".

Of course there are others.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Electric Clutch

Take a look at an automotive a/c compressor clutch if you need ~2kW at 2000 rpm

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Greg Locock

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RE: Electric Clutch

2kW? Wow, I had no idea the a/c compressor took so much power. Thanks Greg.
  

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