How To Choose The Right Hydraulic Cylinder?
How To Choose The Right Hydraulic Cylinder?
It is very important to know the points of choosing the right hydraulic cylinder for your applications. We should know the steps to choose the right cylinder:
1. Choose the right cylinder for your job.
2. Choose the right hydraulic pump.
3. Choose the accessories for the system needs.
Of different jobs, we need different hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic systems, the belwo questions will be fit to choose the right hydraulic cylinder system:
◆ What is the capacity of the system needs?
◆ What is the space of the job required for the cylinder?
◆ Will the cylinder be used for Pull or push or both?
◆ Is it needed to use several cylinders to work at the same time?
◆ Is it needed to move the cylinder or used in one place?
◆ Is it needed of hollow piston?
◆ How about tilt saddle?
◆ Long time load or not?
◆ How is the working efficiency of the cylinder?
And we also need to know some cylinder basic knowledge:
Regularly, we have 3 types of hydraulic system for hydraulic cylinders:
Manual System: Operate the cylinders with hand pumps. Usually this kind of system is for small hydraulic cylinders, or some place without other source of power.
Electric Power System: Operate the cylinders with electric pumps. This kind of system is with multiple solutions like synchronized system.
3. Air Powered System: Single acting air driven jacking systems can free your hands to operate the tools connected with the air hydraulic pump.
