I have a Komatsu PC35MRX with a little over 2000 hours. It looks like this, which just a picture off the web and not my machine.
I have gotten pretty comfortable operating it, but pulling the bucket across a surface to level it is somethingI have not mastered. In fact, I am lousy at it.
So, I am thinking of putting accelerometers on the boom and dipper, which will tell me, for example, how much to raise or lower the boom to accommodate for the arc of the dipper as I pull it across a surface.
The hydraulic controls are typical manual spool valves. My question is this: What exists in an electrically controlled valve with manual override, and what is it called?
A simple approach might be to add a servo, but then such servos don't allow easy override, even when not powered. One way around that would be to have an electrically engaged clutch on the servo. But. I am looking for other ideas. I don't want to impede digging and other things, but I need help level scraping. I have seen operators who can do that by sight, but I just don't have that skill. Consider it an ADA type of adaptation.
John
I have gotten pretty comfortable operating it, but pulling the bucket across a surface to level it is somethingI have not mastered. In fact, I am lousy at it.
So, I am thinking of putting accelerometers on the boom and dipper, which will tell me, for example, how much to raise or lower the boom to accommodate for the arc of the dipper as I pull it across a surface.
The hydraulic controls are typical manual spool valves. My question is this: What exists in an electrically controlled valve with manual override, and what is it called?
A simple approach might be to add a servo, but then such servos don't allow easy override, even when not powered. One way around that would be to have an electrically engaged clutch on the servo. But. I am looking for other ideas. I don't want to impede digging and other things, but I need help level scraping. I have seen operators who can do that by sight, but I just don't have that skill. Consider it an ADA type of adaptation.
John