Load detectors on hoist units

Improved safety and protection for supporting structures with overload protection

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Improved equipment utilization improved plant efficiency

Demag load detectors are suitable for: All Demag hoist units (others on request) Open winch crabs The entire SWL range Arduous operating conditions SWL, lifting speed and the operating conditions are decisive for the correct selection of a hoist unit. Safety regulations require that operators do not exceed the specified SWL of the hoist. Adherence to these regulations is ensured if the hoist is equipped with a Demag load detector. Plants and equipment must be operated as near to capacity as possible to ensure optimum efficiency of the production process. It is often difficult to estimate the loads to be handled. Demag load detectors protect supporting structures and lifting appliances from overloading.

System design
Fig. 1 Mechanical load link Fig. 2 ZMS FGB-1(2)

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Audible and visible alarm devices and digital load display

Hoist units equipped with load detectors always require a contactor control. All components, except for the sensors, are incorporated in the housing of the hoist control.

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Sensors The MGS sensors (mechanical load link) or ZMS (carrier link with strain gauge bridge) are fitted at the rope anchorage points (rope wedge retaining crosshead, retaining plate etc.) provided and prepared for this purpose as standard. The measured values are transmitted to the switching amplifier via a non-detachable, screened cable. If the cable is damaged, an incorporated safety device acts like an overload and switches off the lifting motion.

Electronic modules The measured values are evaluated by a switching amplifier. An MKA-2 contact position evaluator is required where the MGS mechanical load link is fitted; an FGB-1 frequency generator and an FAW-1 frequency evaluator must be used where a carrier link with strain gauge bridge is fitted. Depending on the hoist unit type, the switching amplifier either operates as an overload cut-off switch (1 lifting speed) or as an overload protective device (2 lifting speeds).

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If additionally the service life is to be detected, the FWL frequency evaluator with load spectrum recorder is used instead of the FAW-1 frequency evaluator.

Alarm devices and load display If required, the overload protective device or overload cut-off switch can be combined with a warning light and/or with an audible alarm device. A digital load display is also available as an additional feature. It can be used for assessing the approximate handling rate of an installation. The 3-digit display can either be installed in the DST or DSE control pendant or in the drivers cabin as ANK-1 load indicator. It is also available as an ANG-1 large-format display (120 mm-high digits). 3

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Demag load detectors Improved protection for supporting structures

Depending on the hoist unit equipment, a distinction is made between the overload protective device and the overload cut-off switch.

Hoist units with creep speed unit

Hoist units without creep speed unit

Rope pull % Limit load 110 Rated load 100 Load ] 110 % % Limit load 110 Rated load 100

Rope pull Load ] 110 %

Partial load 12.550 %

Time 0 Time

Lifting speed Main lifting

Lifting speed

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Overload protective device After the main hoist button has been pressed, the load detector is actuated and the load is then continuously measured via the rope pull when the load is lifted from the ground. Provided that the load < 12.5 % of the rated load, the hoist motor runs up to its main lifting speed. If the load reaches 12.5 % of the rated load, switching to creep lifting speed is automatic and the measuring time TM commences. If a load > 110 % of the rated load is detected within the measuring time, creep speed lifting is switched off and only lowering is possible. For a load > 12.5 % < 110 %, lifting at main speed is released after the measuring time has elapsed.

Overload cut-off switch Where the hoist unit is not fitted with a creep speed unit, dynamic forces make it difficult to measure the load exactly. The rotating masses of the drive require a certain braking time until standstill. Therefore, depending on the braking time, load, mass moment of inertia and flexibility of the supporting structure, either the load can be lifted from the ground or a higher load can occur. After the lifting motion has been cut off, only lowering is possible.

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207 437 44

701 IS 819

Printed in Germany Be/0300/1T

Mannesmann Dematic AG P .O. Box 67 D-58286 Wetter Telephone (+49/2335) 92-0 Telefax (+49/2335) 927676 Internet http://www.dematic.com

Subject to alteration