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Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

(OP)
Anybody know of a supplier of electric –no actual pad contact- disk brakes that use eddy current/hysteresis principle for their action.  
A retrofit for the existing automotive disk caliper would be nice.
Thanks.
 

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

(OP)
For heavy truck hysteresis brakes see

http://www.telmausa.com/telma_htm/default.htm

These are way too heavy and too powerful for my purposes - maybe there is a smaller system used somewhere.

 

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

(OP)
Another name might be "eddy current retarder" which would be good for rpm control of a shaft at 80-100% of maximum speed.

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

Google these words:

Kloft
Frenelsa
Klam
www.tmm.es

None of these will be a foundation brake, but they should take a lot of the pressure off of the foundation brakes.

rmw

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

We don't know what your purposes are, so we're guessing.

I guess you could fit the brake to your driveshaft.

Plan on an axle cooler if you use it much.


 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

(OP)
The  braking system should actively  control the individual output shaft speeds of a differential.  Brake pads will wear out quickly if required to operate almost constantly. Power input to the differential 100-200hp. Output shaft speed to vary from 80% to 100% of max rpm.

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

How about a water brake as in a dyno?
Use a water-air heat exchanger to dump the heat, of course.

Jay Maechtlen
http://www.laserpubs.com/techcomm

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

so you're looking for a slip-limiting device or a device to control the torque split between two wheels?

 

RE: Automotive disk brake retrofit to hysteresis/eddy current type

(OP)
Torque control.

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