The system allows high speed operation, you can move the
deck a full 8 up and 8 down in under 15 seconds. Thats even more
impressive when you consider we have 2 foot more stroke than some crushers. This puts the
combined cylinder oil flow at over 600 gpm. compared to 80 gpm. on a standard crusher.
Its really quite simple, a
cylinder is always full of oil. The bypass system transfers that oil between the top and
bottom cylinder ports.
On our standard hydraulic
system, to raise the deck we pump 32 gallons of oil into the bottom of each cylinder
and send the 27 gallons of oil in the top back to the tank. The 5 gallon difference is
equal to the area of the rod. To lower the deck we pump 27 gallons into the top and send
the 32 gallon in the bottom, back to the tank.
When our design team set out to
build a high speed unit, they looked at one basic principle. It takes 1hp to pump 1 gallon
of oil at 1500psi. That leaves 2 options, get a big expensive fuel hogging engine with
lots of horsepower or find a way to pump less oil. We found a way