Vega Tilt Switch
Digital Tilt Switch for Automotive, Crane and Dumper Safety Applications

Dumper trucks or tipper trucks  are commonly used in construction and mining industry. While these beasts of burden are the backbone of the industry and very dependable, they are prone to accidents and can be very unsafe especially if they are overloaded and if the tipper is being operated while standing on an incline such as an elevated road or a hill which can be quite common in mining areas. The tipper hydraulics generally have a safety cut off switch which works on measurement of the angle between the chassis and the tipper body. The issue of operating on an incline is thus not being handled by the traditional means as it measures the vehicle tray angle with respect to the vehicle platform and ignores the elevation of the road. The right approach would be to measure the incline with respect to true horizontal and cut off the hydraulics based on load and incline angle.

Aeron’s VEGA family’s Tilt Switch ARN-TSW-G (Tilt Switch) provides a means to measure the true inclination and provides safety indication and safety cut off switch to the user. ARN-TSW-G has a configurable threshold angle (limit angle) setting feature which can be used to set the threshold angle as per the application requirement. ARN-TSW-G has built-in 3 axis MEMS accelerometer and 3 axis gyroscopes providing gyro-compensated tilt angles. It comes with built in relays to give the switching outputs to the solenoid actuators of the vehicle hydraulics. ARN-TSW-G measure the absolute tilt angle to avoid elevated road conditions.

Most of the tilt switches available in the market are based on accelerometers only. This limits the tilt sensing device performance in dynamic conditions.  ARN-TSW-G provides gyro-compensated tilt angle output making it suitable for dynamic and high vibration operating conditions. 

ARN-TSW-G’s absolute tilt angle measurements, its rugged automotive grade design and suitable outputs makes it an ideal choice for similar applications like cranes, forklifts, man lifts, loaders for safely applications.