We always like to get good feedback from our customers for products we sell and occasionally customers send us pictures of their work which is always satisfying!
So welcome to our customer project section!

The House Lift

This one I saw personally, and I have to admit, when Chris told me what he was planning I was a little skeptical because the amount of work and re-engineering required was huge.
The project was a house lift which started at the garage and had a hand winding mechanism to send the lift up to the second story of the house. It had previously been wired up with a small worm drive, but nobody knows if it ever really worked or if someone had attempted it, then given up as the original motor blew up. Either way, by the time Chris saw it, it had all been disconnected and not working for the past 20 or so years.
The lift was designed to cart groceries from the garage where the car pulled in, to the first floor or second floor. The first floor was the kitchen and the second floor was a bedroom.
The original worm drive motor was a 100w 240v with a very very low speed. We replaced the motor with a Titan 120w AC Induction motor with a 50:1 ratio.

Here's Chris's story!

After I spent one day trying to get the original idea working I realized that it was going to need a new approach. I decided to be rid of the manual control & house it completely under the bottom of the lift. I spent the next day fabricating the brackets & machining & boring the pulleys at work. So I suppose it took one day to make the thing work. It took another one day to re-wire & fit & adjust the limit switches, and associated wiring. The thing has an upper & lower control switch on each level that switches a latching relay until that limit switch turns the relay off when it has reached that level. It also has an indicator to advise the opposite floor that the level has been reached. It has an override stop switch at each level so it can be stopped & restarted at any position. I haven't loaded it up but the motor shows no sign of working hard at all. I don't think that any load that fits inside a cubic meter will affect it. Time will tell! 

Another customer project, this time to turn two large compressor screws for an air compressor demonstration system.

Quite an impressive setup, simple and well engineered. This was created to show customers how the screw concept in the companies air compressors worked.

 

The motor is neatly mounted under the bench where the two large screws are so as to not take away from the display of the twin rotors.

 

A nice shot showing the belt extending onto the shaft of the large rotor. They actually look quite similar to supercharger rotors. I wonder if they could be adapted?

As a matter of interest, never mount a motor like this one is, the engineer only mounted it this way to check the spacing and tensions on the belt and to make sure everything was lined up correctly. It's good practice when mounting a motor to any type of  non rigid frame that can vibrate to use rubber grommets to mount the motor so that vibrations don't go through the entire frame of the unit. It's not good for the motor and it can make the overall unit quite noisy to operate.

 

Motorized Golf Caddy

Mick's Golf buddy!
Here we have a shot of one of our 12-36V DC Speed Controllers mounted to a golf buggy. The speed controller is standard, with a long lead connected to the potentiometer as requested by the customer so he could feed it through the handle.

How good is this buggy? I mean I don't play golf, but if I did I'd definitely want one of these! And right now I'm thinking of ways to make one, as they look pretty simple, and yet probably cost thousands of dollars. I think I'd extend the wheelbase and add a seat and a better control. Who wants to walk between holes when you could ride?
We also sell similar motors too if anyone wants to make their own.

 

Daiwa? I thought they made fishing gear? Nice and simple setup!

 

Simple and efficient. Gear like this never breaks down. Well, except this one did.

 

 

 

Tank Rumbler

A shot of the rumbler in action!

 

A shot of the control Panel Its a 60w AC Speed Control Motor with a digital speed control module.

Some decent engineering gone into this!

A shot of the Titan Motor powering this unit! As you can see, while it may be Chinese made, its a well built motor and gearbox with lots of customization making it even better!

A shot of the controller, you can see the fan under the cowling at the rear of the motor