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  1. patriotpickle

    Float alarm system for mixing tanks

    Yes, only one tank will be filling at one time. We never have and never will fill more than one tank at a time. As far as the other tanks, some will be filled and some will be below the float level, it is always random and we will never have control over that. Also, the tanks are filled simply...
  2. patriotpickle

    Float alarm system for mixing tanks

    Hello all, I am the maintenance man for a pickle manufacturing company. We have 6 large brine mixing tanks and everything is manual. They have manual ball valves and flow meters with nothing to prevent the tanks from overflowing if the brine maker is not paying attention. We had an estimate done...
  3. patriotpickle

    Adding a VFD to a conveyor

    The product is cucumbers. The belt will generally have the same weight on it at all times. When we are running a smaller cucumber, the belt pulls alot at one time and that is when I would slow down the conveyor so it dumps less cucumbers onto the take-away conveyor so we can inspect the product...
  4. patriotpickle

    Adding a VFD to a conveyor

    I need to put a new motor / gearbox and a VFD on a conveyor that we have in our plant to reduce or increase the speed of the conveyor depending on which type of product we are running at a particular time. My question is, is it better to get a fast gearbox and slow it down with the VFD or get a...
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