If you want to know how fluid power works, you’ll need to be able to learn how to read schematics. It’s a skill that is vital to being able to repair hydraulic units like pumps and motors, and also more complex units like final drives.
It can be hard, but, as Josh Cosford says, “it’s not impossible to learn. In fact, it only takes a basic level understanding of how symbols work and how they’re arranged in a diagram. One challenge – even if you’ve memorized every symbol in the library – is understanding why a particular symbol is used in a circuit; that part is hard to teach and just comes with experience.”
In this article from Fluid Power World, Cosford provides an overview of some common symbols used in hydraulic schematics, including:
- Basic Line
- Enclosure Line
- Pilot/Drain Line
- Old Drain Line
- Crossing Lines
- Connected Lines
- Hydraulic Pump
- Hydraulic Motor
- Relief Valve
- Reducing Valve
Cosford recommends young engineers and repair specialists spend time learning how “hydraulic symbols are combined to create a complete schematic representing an actual machine” and how to “interpret the symbols.”
Large manufacturing systems like this injection molding machine have complex fluid power schematics that use basic hydraulic symbols.
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