Fred Trevvett
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Morning all
I'm helping a friend make an automated pressure washing system for washing large plastic panels. Won't go into details but basically a carriage needs to move left and right automatically on runners (nozzles attached to carriage to spray board above)
What's the best way of driving this carriage? Obviously it will be doused in gritty muddy water all day every day so most usual solutions would just wear out.
Theres a few options weve thought of, e.g. a winch system with the winch motor positioned away from the majority of the washing area, but wondered if anyone on here had any better ideas...let's face it, it wouldn't be hard to improve on mine
Span of the system is about 2.5m, and it needs to travel back and forth by 4.8m
There is no budget as such, there is money available to be thrown at it but only if there is very good reason to - don't just want to blow money trying out different systems until we find one which will work
Hope all that makes sense.
I'm helping a friend make an automated pressure washing system for washing large plastic panels. Won't go into details but basically a carriage needs to move left and right automatically on runners (nozzles attached to carriage to spray board above)
What's the best way of driving this carriage? Obviously it will be doused in gritty muddy water all day every day so most usual solutions would just wear out.
Theres a few options weve thought of, e.g. a winch system with the winch motor positioned away from the majority of the washing area, but wondered if anyone on here had any better ideas...let's face it, it wouldn't be hard to improve on mine
Span of the system is about 2.5m, and it needs to travel back and forth by 4.8m
There is no budget as such, there is money available to be thrown at it but only if there is very good reason to - don't just want to blow money trying out different systems until we find one which will work
Hope all that makes sense.