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Re: All Terrain Crane
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:47:03 GMT
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"Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message

I used to work for PAT, a major supplier of LMIs to Demag, Grove,
and others.

Any chance of a wee explanation about how these things work? The trouble
with looking deeply into a subject is that it usually generates even more
questions that you had in the first place, and this is exactly what happened
here. I remember reading about old mechanical LMIs but not modern ones!

Jennifer



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  RE: All Terrain Crane
 
(...) Ha! There IS something you don't know about cranes! Basically, they have pressure transducers on the hydraulics that control boom luffing. Then there's a really complicated bit of software that's customised for each and every crane geomoetry (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  RE: All Terrain Crane
 
Once again, the sound of jaws hitting the floor is heard around the world... It may interest some of you to know that the little box near the top of the outer boom section holds the sensors for the load-moment indication system these big cranes use. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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