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A recent customer, Greg, found out how tough
Telemotive remote crane contols cab be after taking
advantage of Engineered Lifting Systems “Trade-in/Trade-up”
sales offer for current 9000 and 10K users to upgrade to
either the Telemotive TelePendant or the Telemotive
TelePilot.
 It
seems the brand new TelePilot transmitter was placed on a
load saddle, when the end of a 600 pound shaft supporting
half of an 1800 pound roll was placed on top of the
transmitter! That’s 1,200 pounds of force!!!
When the transmitter was missing, the
operator noticed the transmitter was under the shaft, and
used the hoist to lift the shaft off the transmitter.
To the surprise of everyone, the Telemotive
TelePilot transmitter worked like new, with little damage to
the extruded aluminum case. That’s tough!
These transmitters feature Palm Pilot
programming, more than 200 hours of operation using
disposable batteries, and they are backward compatible with
9000 series, and 10K Telemotive remote crane control radio
systems.
 Now
this testimonial was impressive, but I wanted to see for
myself if these Telemotive TelePilot transmitters would pass
another test. So I decided to park the heavy end of an F-250
Ford Powerstroke truck weighing in at 7,000 pounds on top of
my own TelePilot demonstrator transmitter.
 Sounds
more crazy than Greg’s story, but I did it. You can see from
the pictures that the truck was stopped on top of the
transmitter. But after the test, the transmitter was fine.
All of the buttons operated as before, and only a rubber
mark and two scuffs were the only way to tell the radio had
a “road kill experience”.
Now Magnetek, the makers of the Telemotive
Product Group, and Engineered Lifting Systems do not
encourage this type of abuse in your plant or facility. But
over the years we have found we can not prevent it, either.
So when you “test” the toughness of your TelePilot radio
with say an M1A1 Abrams tank, you can contact Engineered
Lifting Systems to arrange to have your transmitter rebuilt
by authorized crane radio control technicians at Magnetek. |
