How soon will car hydraulics be heading to Beaulieu Motor Museum? Why do designers love electric? Electrics has big attractions for designers. Electric actuation has made big inroads towards replacing hydraulics in systems everywhere. We have discussed before about the enormous growth in pure electric actuation on aircraft. Out go those hoses, pumps, control valves [...]
Tech helps in fighting the hydraulic contamination battle. If anybody tells Sarum Hydraulics that there is a “contamination issue”, we insist on digging deeper. Maybe that was an acceptable blanket excuse in 1986, but not today. We just need to know what it is. We had an “old school” optical microscope for years, a cheap [...]
Setting the pace – and pulse in hybrid marine power technology: leading the fleet is the USS Zumwalt Class destroyer. But Sarum Hydraulics asks how realistic is hybrid marine power technology on smaller vessels? Hybrid marine power on boats – the buzzword in 2016 is hybrid. There’s good reason that the one word that keeps popping up [...]
Why wouldn’t you look at low pressure hydraulics first? We wrote a thoughtful blog on low pressure hydraulics last year and asked the question "why wouldn’t you look at low pressure hydraulics first?”. The article generated a lot of interest and we have had endless discussion over it. Designers love a chat! Our premise was [...]
How innovative hydraulics, advanced optoelectronics and clever control could just be the dream ticket for a hydroponic future. Farming underground, in your attic and in a factory unit using high tech lighting and hydroponics is a great tech story for the press. But is it the start of what will become a massive [...]
Where a neat aerospace electro-hydraulic actuator might point the way on future mobile hydraulics. Sarum Hydraulics loves innovative hydraulic design. There is always something interesting that a clever hydraulic designer comes up with whether it is aerospace, offshore, marine, mobile or the myriad other fluid power applications. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) [...]
The payback game: so just which hydraulic manufacturers will profit from the robot challenge? The FT recently reported that China bought 66,000 out of 240,000 robot units sold globally last year. The UK bought only an estimated 2400 units in 2015, according to statistics from the International Federation of Robotics. It makes riveting [...]
The craze for kyosho jutaku, that distinctly Japanese variant of the micro home, may have started in the thirteenth century, but there’s good reason why jutaku has more recently exploded in popularity outside Japan. These micro houses are often built on unused, “leftover” land —urban infill, in the truest sense of the term. We’re talking [...]
Photo source Thomas Edison electricity and the prolific inventor’s vision of how Distributed Power would rule the world, is more relevant today than ever. Harvesting your own power is already happening and with Distributed Generation considered by pundits a $100 billion opportunity – is a world without a grid the future for some [...]
Has silicon graphics made the pencil redundant for designers and creative minds? Whether you were Leonardo da Vinci, Enzo Ferrari or even the Mad Men, a pencil and some paper had always been the way to download your creative thoughts from your mind, play about with them and share them with other people. Fabriano started [...]
