Electric cylinders offer a long lifespan
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SMAC Europe product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 6, 2007
SMAC's CA range of electric cylinders accept a wide variety of mounting options that include ISO, DIN, VDMA, CETOP, JFPA and NFPA standards and dimensions.
SMAC has released its new CA range of electric cylinders.
Starting with 25 and 35mm diameter actuators the range will consist of cylinders from 8 to 100mm diameters with stroke lengths of up to 100mm.
They have been designed to accept a wide variety of mounting options that include ISO, DIN, VDMA, CETOP, JFPA and NFPA standards and dimensions.
This enables the direct replacement of existing pneumatic cylinders and retro-fitting without any machine modifications required.
The electric cylinders are manufactured from high-grade stainless steel with a minimum wall thickness of 1.5mm, making them extremely robust compared to traditional thin-walled pneumatic cylinders.
They also incorporate nonrotating piston rods as standard.
They have a protection rating of IP54 with IP65 and IP67 available upon request.
They also have full CE approval and certification.
These features make them suitable for converting conventional pneumatic applications to electric where an exceptionally high degree of speed, cycle life, precision and accuracy is critical.
Acceleration of up to 40G can be achieved and they have been designed to offer a life expectancy of about 100 million cycles as a minimum.
The actuators are based on proprietary SMAC moving coil actuator (MCA) technology which is covered by multiple patent applications.
They are offered with a choice of encoder resolutions from 5 micron down to 1 micron to satisfy a variety of industrial, scientific, motion control and QC / measuring applications.
As with all SMAC actuators the cylinders have the ability to enable free and independent control of velocity, position and force simultaneously.
In addition, the SMAC Softland function is incorporated to allow delicate and controlled force when landing on fragile components.
The cylinders also give 100% data feedback of all operations as standard.
Due to these features no external switches or sensors are required to detect cylinder movement or position.
This enables a radical reduction of any external wiring and significantly reduces cost.
The electric cylinders also have a low power consumption of 1.8A and 24V, making them highly energy efficient when compared with old pneumatic technology.
The SMAC electric cylinders achieve this performance through the use of specially designed internal components and high-performance, in-house designed electronics.
This includes the new SMAC LDC (low deformation coil) technology, which significantly improves performance and reliability.
High-quality linear guides are used to deliver high life expectancy, precision and accuracy.
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