This is one the team has been waiting for, and we’re excited to finally share it with you. Press play and watch the counter on our Gen 2 Beltdraulic™ cylinder tick from 99,999 over to 100,000 cycles.
Each cycle is one full extend and retract on our test rig. After 100,000 of them, we’ve seen no visible wear on the belt. To put that in perspective, it’s already ten times the standard warranty for a truck liftgate. If that liftgate were delivering for Thanksgiving, that’s over 6 million turkeys!
We also had a surprise along the way: the off-the-shelf pneumatic cylinder used as a load on the test bench failed before ours did. Moments like that give us even more confidence that Beltdraulic™ can deliver a more reliable actuator.
Liftgates are only the beginning. Some of the markets we’re looking at, like industrial pumps for oil and gas, demand far more cycles than a liftgate ever will. That’s why we’re going to continue testing till failure, and we’ll have more to share as the count keeps climbing.
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