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Magnetek/Mondel
“Braketronic”
Replace old Hydraulic Brakes
If your company has cab operated
cranes, chances are you have hydraulic brakes
for at least the bridge motion. Because of the
line of sight for a cab operator, and in some
cases the type of load, a cab operated crane is
the only way to go for some cranes. The operator
looking for that “seat of the pants” feel from
the crane control scheme and crane braking,
often mandated a contactor stepped or Static
Stepless control with a hydraulic foot operated
brake. This gives the operator plugging control,
and/or hydraulic brake deceleration using a cab
mounted foot pedal. (Improvements
in cab operated cranes discussed here)
Do you have this set-up?
A rear view of the leaky hydraulic foot pedal
valve.
The above old bridge brake was
a Wagner Brake system
Magnetek and Mondel have a
standard product to replace these aging leaky
systems called “Braketronic”. Braketronic uses a
Magnetek G+ Series 3 drive as the heart of a
control to regulate the Thruster module on a
Mondel MST brake. A static output mill duty foot
pedal replaces the nasty hydraulic foot pedal,
and provides an infinite signal to the drive
regulating the Thruster module and therefore the
torque (force) applied to the brake wheel.
And for those of you with old air over hydraulic
systems, the Braketronic is a complete
replacement for those systems as we can program
the drive for stopping points. That means that
Braketronic is an excellent choice with cab,
cab/radio, or straight radio control cranes!
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