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SYSTEM 2000 TEST BENCHES

The Barker/Diacon System 2000 Series Snubber Test Bench is designed to provide utilities and service companies with a rugged, easy to maintain, and easy to use piece of test gear to support snubber ISI activities.

While maintaining a conservative design philosophy, the entire system has been analyzed from the ground up, resulting in a more logical, higher performance system with enhanced usability and reliability as compared to earlier designs of test benches.

 The System 2000 Snubber Test Bench System is capable of testing all types of snubbers, including mechanical acceleration limiting, mechanical velocity limiting, and hydraulic velocity limiting with or without activation (lock up) characteristics.

We build test benches with capacities from 6 kip to 200 kip, or higher on special order. A typical standard machine includes a high force load frame (75kip or 130 kip), a low force test frame (6 kip), a hydraulic power unit (hpu), and a system control console.

We can also build integral units where the hpu is built into each frame, for space savings and easier transport.

Some features that set the Barker/Diacon System 2000 test bench apart from other machines are:

 

Concentrically loaded test frames: The triple rail design provides greater strength for less mass than traditional I-beam designs, and eliminates beam flexure, a major source of instrument error on I-beam type designs.

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Simplified hydraulic design: Lower cost and simpler operation than servo based designs.

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Superior Windows based software: Our System 2000 software is the easiest to use and most versatile test machine software available. Unlimited snubber types, user configurable test parameters, and multi-level password controlled security with access logging are included. Delivered with our standard Verification and Validation Plan and Report, and Operations and Maintenance Manual.

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Proven design: Barker/Diacon is the industry leader with over 30 benches delivered to utilities and service companies and test service vendors. Talk to any of our customers to get an unbiased opinion of our products and services.

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Barker/Diacon expertise and service: Our only goal is to provide you, the customer, with the best, most accurate, most productive, and easiest to use equipment available. We encourage prospective owners to ask our current customers about their ownership experience.
   

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