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Fluid Power Maintenance And Troubleshooting Info.
Hydraulic System Initial Start-Up And Maintenance
This four page guide outlines basic hydraulic system start-up and maintenance tasks in paragraph and table formats. Please note that many systems operate in environments or contain components that have other maintenance and/or start-up requirements.
Start-Up_and_Maintenance.pdf - (61.84kB)Hydraulic System Troubleshooting Guide
This comprehensive and easy to use guide for troubleshooting hydraulic systems offers both a condensed and expanded set of tables that show "trouble" - "cause" - "remedy". Please note that while this guide addresses many common problems, causes and remedies, some hydraulic system issues are more complicate and may require expert diagnosis.
Troubleshooting_Guide.pdf - (254.55kB)Electric Motor Troubleshooting Guide
This 16 page guide includes an extensive list of start connection diagrams and "trouble" - "cause" - "cure" charts. The guide also includes a troubleshooting section on AC motors used with variable speed drives and brake motors.
Electric_Motor.pdf - (850.11kB)Engineering Downloads And Tools
Convert Conversion Software
Convert is a free unit conversion application from www.joshmadison.com. This powerful software allows you to convert many units including distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and more. The application also allows you to create your own custom conversions.
convertsetup.exe - (779.54kB)Hose Pressure Drop Calculator
This handy hose pressure drop calculator takes the manual work out of calculating your application's pressure drops. The Excel format spreadsheet allows you to customize your fluid and system specifications and allows for up to three sections of hose to be calculated in the same circuit.
HOSE_DROP_CALCULATOR.xls - (25.5kB)Fluid Power Calculator
This is a dos application developed in 1986 by West Tech consulting that still works very well. The information is presented in a dos screen but still beats doing the calucations long hand.
chyd.exe - (116.22kB)Solution Brochures
Electrical Panel Solutions
Document outlining J.M. Grimstad's Electrical Panel Solutions
JMG-EP.pdf - (754.08kB)Hydraulic Power Unit Solutions
Document outlining J.M. Grimstad's Hydraulic Power Unit Solutions
JMG-HPU.pdf - (1280.35kB)Custom Manifold Solutions
Document outlining J.M. Grimstad's Custom Manifold Solutions
JMG-CM.pdf - (2045.96kB)Videos
Pall's C-Thru Separator
Demostration of Pall's C-Thru separator. Follow the link to view the video. The C-Thru Separator is a unique, patented unit, designed to remove free and dispersed tramp oil from metal working and parts washing fluids.
Pall C-Thru Seperator Data Sheet
Sales data sheet containing more information on the Pall C-Thru Seperator.
IMCTHRUEN.pdf - (302.2kB)Sauer Danfoss Plus 1 Demo
Demonstration of cylinder synchronization using the Sauer Danfoss Plus 1 electronics. Cylinder position feedback is provided via CanBus from two stringpots. Synchronization is done using closed loop control via two Sauer Danfoss proportional valves.
