Example 13: tested, control cable CF9

Tested live: container crane with 50 m travel

In crane construction, energy supply systems increasingly prove their technical and economic strengths. Flexibility, variability and a space-saving installation are only some of the most important criteria. The cables are an important module of the energy supply system. Here users expect a high functional reliability.

igus® cables are continuously tested in the chainflex® laboratory. Significant knowledge about the service life of a cable was thereby gained, which helped in arriving at improvements for the future cable assembly. It becomes particularly interesting when there is a rare opportunity to take cables from real, tough applications and test them.

Current test The chainflex® cable CF9.60.05 is used in container cranes for years, in this case with a total travel of approx 47 m. A test assignment by the operator was meant to highlight a performance rating after more than 40,000 chain kilometers and to determine when to expect a preventive maintenance for the other equipment.

After removing the CF9.60.05, tests were carried out with the following objectives:

1. Outer jacket, wear characteristics, other damages
2. Entire stranding, insulation behavior of the individual cores
3. Strand structure and the number of potential, single broken wires, which might point to an early failure of the entire cable.

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