We usually believe that R&D applied to the alternators sector and mainly to the lighting tower application has a low impact for final users. This attitude leads us to look smugly at the marketing activity of the different manufacturing companies, selling their own products as the best solutions. Now, before carrying on reading this article, we invite you to do the opposite, i.e., to stop and think a little while at the alternator features for your lighting tower you have ever looked for but never found………..done?

Well, let’s try looking at the five main characteristics of our Alumen series which make of this family a new reference point within the sector. Probably, you will notice they are the same you were always thinking about and actually your ideal alternator is already available and ready to make your lighting towers the most competitive products in the market.

1)      The Alumen series alternators have undoubtedly the best efficiency values and this is a fact! Something which you can see first-hand. In average, you can see a 4% increase in performances compared to the average in the market. This increase essentially means a higher autonomy for your lighting towers and an important fuel saving for the final user, which means after 5,000 working hours for your lighting tower, the alternator cost is totally paid back! Thanks to our continuous search for excellence, we have developed a product able to pay for itself only by working.

2)      Alumen series alternators have the unique characteristic to include a die-cast aluminium frame and SAE 5 flywheel housing which is a one single piece, available in three different lengths. This essentially means we have developed an alternator which makes handling very easy, thanks to the frame hoist ring, as well, and in case of maintenance, the dismantling time is the shortest, due to the easy rotor extraction.

3)      We have designed for you the sturdiest and most reliable alternator because we don’t accept any compromise when choosing raw materials and we put the maximum care to our manufacturing process. All windings are Class H, with a high capability to accept overload and, on top of that, the stator has an additional impregnation for a better protection. Last but not least, we use oversized capacitors to increase reliability even in the worst working conditions.

4)      Alumen series alternators have been specifically designed to give the maximum customization possible according to the needs coming from the final user. Their main components can be freely combined to get a machine that can meet your requirements in the lighting tower manufacturing. For instance you can either have the capacitor box or the extension cable kit, the damping cage or not, and the terminal board or not.

5)      No other lighting tower alternator in the market can boast such an easy maintenance as an Alumen series alternator! Thanks to its unique aluminium frame, maintenance is easy and quick. The rotor diodes testing is very easy, thanks to diodes access and since they are screwed, the replacement is also extremely simple. Moreover, during the dismantling and the assembling, the easy rotor extraction speeds up the entire process, thanks also to the lack of other removable components.

To summarize: its innovative design, compact and easy to handle during assembling, dismantling and maintenance, the high quality materials used and the processing, in accordance to its true Italian style, its operating cost saving, reliability and strength, performance and efficiency make of this Alumen alternator the best-in-class machine.

We thank you for your patience to read this short article but you know now that if you want to sell your lighting towers as the best in the market, they must have an “Alumen heart” inside! We in Linz Electric will keep following our mission to manufacture the best rotating electrical machines to successfully impact on our future and on our customers’! and now………..it’s your turn to choose!