Hydraulics Archives | TU - Technical Union

How to set and adjust a pressure compensated control for your hydraulic pump

Posted on February 14, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

This is how you can adjust your pressure compensated control for your hydraulic pump. You can adjust it to a higher or lower pressure settings depending on your system requirements to have it working properly.

What is a hydraulic pressure relief valve?

Posted on February 14, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

What is a pressure relief valve and why do you really need it in the hydraulic system? Check out our short video and understand why a pressure relief valve is important in the system often at all times.

Pilot operated relief valve vs. direct acting relief valve.

Posted on February 14, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

What are the main differences between a direct acting hydraulic relief valve vs. a pilot operated hydraulic relief valve? Why would you want to use one valve over the other one? Check out this video and understand some of the differences.

High Low hydraulic circuit

Posted on February 14, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

This is a High Low hydraulic circuit, some people may also call it hi-l0 circiuit in which you need a high flow at low pressure and then the requirements changes to a high pressure with low flow to be delivered for the same system.

How to test a pressure compensated pump

Posted on February 14, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

This is the setup and procedures you need to follow to test a variable displacement pressure compensated pump. Watch video below and make sure your pump is working correctly.

How to test a fixed displacement hydraulic pump

Posted on February 14, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

This is the setup and procedures you need to follow to test a fixed displacement hydraulic pump.

Hydraulic Schematic Symbols for pumps and motors

Posted on February 13, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

Hydraulic pump and motors hydraulic schematic symbols to draw your hydraulic system diagram. Basic Fluid Power symbols.

Oilgear pump PVM

Posted on February 13, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

This is a quick reference chart to replace an Oilgear hydraulic pump series PVM for an alternative hydraulic pump from Technical Union. We can use similar charts to replace almost any hydraulic pump that anybody would have.

Hydac Technology

Posted on February 13, 2020April 9, 2020 by admin

This is my review on Hydac Technology Corp. Hydac filter is without a doubt a respectable company in the world of hydraulic filtration as well as in the hydraulic industry in general, with offices around the world you are likely to be using some of their products if you work with a lot of hydraulic equipment.

Hydraulic Heat Removal Calculation

Posted on February 13, 2020April 29, 2020 by admin

This is one of the Fluid Power hydraulic formulas you can use to calculate how much heat you need to remove from the system. If you don't know how much horsepower you are using in your system, you can find the formula for hydraulic horsepower here, then you can remove a certain amount of that horse power with the hydraulic calculation below in this video.

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