System for “Laying Away” Sails
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System for “Laying Away” Sails
On large and very expensive ocean going yachts many of the operations are fully automated. Our customer is a British company that specializes in supplying hydraulic systems for this market. One of their most recent applications was a system for "laying away" the sails after a days sailing.
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Electrically it was as easy to use as a potentiometer
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Once fitted inside a hydraulic cylinder it was perfectly protected from the harsh marine environment
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It is an absolute transducer
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Repeatability
The TM1 was fitted inside a hydraulic cylinder to measure its extension. The cylinder is used to raise and lower the boom to which the main sail is attached. The space available to pack the sail away is very limited so if the whole process is to be automated then precise positioning of the boom is required.
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Novotechnik – the technique of being better
Novotechnik introduced the potentiometer into the general machine engineering sector in the 1950s. Since then, the company developed technology used in position transducers and rotary and linear potentiometers that set the standard with outstanding linearity and reliability over an extended operating life.
Today, Novotechnik has developed new technologies that are raising the standard, bringing a new level of linearity and reliability to non-contacting applications.
An international sensor and transducer manufacturing company, Novotechnik’s US operations are headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts. Contelec and Novotechnik are divisions of the Siedle Group.
The company develops and produces a wide variety of rotary, and linear position sensors using contacting and non-contacting technologies for a wide range of motion control applications in the automotive, machine engineering, plastics, medical equipment, hydraulic, pneumatic, medical products and control industries.
Novotechnik is world wide certified as one of the first companies to achieve the ISO/TS 16949 certification. This complies with the requirements of the automobile industry - VDA 6.1, QS9000, EAQF, AVSQ - regarding quality management systems.
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