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A
recent customer, Greg, found out how
tough Telemotive remote crane controls
can 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. |
