Forklift Starter and Alternator

Forklift Starters and Alternators - A starter motors today is normally a permanent-magnet composition or a series-parallel wound direct current electrical motor along with a starter solenoid mounted on it. When current from the starting battery is applied to the solenoid, mainly via a key-operated switch, the solenoid engages a lever which pushes out the drive pinion that is located on the driveshaft and meshes the pinion using the starter ring gear that is found on the flywheel of the engine.

The solenoid closes the high-current contacts for the starter motor, which starts to turn. Once the engine starts, the key operated switch is opened and a spring inside the solenoid assembly pulls the pinion gear away from the ring gear. This action causes the starter motor to stop. The starter's pinion is clutched to its driveshaft by an overrunning clutch. This allows the pinion to transmit drive in only one direction. Drive is transmitted in this particular manner via the pinion to the flywheel ring gear. The pinion continuous to be engaged, like for instance since the driver fails to release the key when the engine starts or if the solenoid remains engaged as there is a short. This actually causes the pinion to spin separately of its driveshaft.

The actions discussed above will stop the engine from driving the starter. This significant step stops the starter from spinning very fast that it could fly apart. Unless adjustments were done, the sprag clutch arrangement would prevent using the starter as a generator if it was used in the hybrid scheme mentioned prior. Typically an average starter motor is designed for intermittent use that would preclude it being utilized as a generator.

Therefore, the electrical components are meant to function for roughly under thirty seconds to prevent overheating. The overheating results from too slow dissipation of heat due to ohmic losses. The electrical parts are designed to save weight and cost. This is the reason nearly all owner's manuals for automobiles recommend the operator to stop for a minimum of ten seconds after each ten or fifteen seconds of cranking the engine, whenever trying to start an engine that does not turn over right away.

During the early 1960s, this overrunning-clutch pinion arrangement was phased onto the market. Before that time, a Bendix drive was used. The Bendix system operates by placing the starter drive pinion on a helically cut driveshaft. As soon as the starter motor starts turning, the inertia of the drive pinion assembly allows it to ride forward on the helix, hence engaging with the ring gear. Once the engine starts, the backdrive caused from the ring gear enables the pinion to surpass the rotating speed of the starter. At this instant, the drive pinion is forced back down the helical shaft and hence out of mesh with the ring gear.

During the 1930s, an intermediate development between the Bendix drive was developed. The overrunning-clutch design which was developed and introduced during the 1960s was the Bendix Folo-Thru drive. The Folo-Thru drive consists of a latching mechanism together with a set of flyweights in the body of the drive unit. This was much better as the standard Bendix drive used so as to disengage from the ring once the engine fired, even if it did not stay running.

The drive unit if force forward by inertia on the helical shaft once the starter motor is engaged and begins turning. Afterward the starter motor becomes latched into the engaged position. As soon as the drive unit is spun at a speed higher than what is achieved by the starter motor itself, like for example it is backdriven by the running engine, and afterward the flyweights pull outward in a radial manner. This releases the latch and enables the overdriven drive unit to become spun out of engagement, hence unwanted starter disengagement could be prevented prior to a successful engine start.

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