4. Honey extractors with upper drives
4.1. Diagram for honey extractor with upper
drive
1. Gear motor with an engine
2. Rim
3. Extractor drum
4. Drain valve
5. Extractor legs
6. Extractor lid
7. Extractor beam
8. Extractor controller
9. Emergency switch
10. Power supply cable
4.2. Characteristics for the honey extractors with
upper drives
4.2.1. Radial honey extractors with upper drives
Radial honey extractors are characterised by a possibility to
place a high number of frames inside the extractor basket.
Placing the frames in a radial arrangement makes the
spinning occur in one direction only. The drive is applied in
the honey extractors with diameters from 720mm to 900mm
Engine in radial honey extractors
• 720 – 0,37kW/400V/50Hz
• 800 – 0,37kW/400V/50Hz
• 900 – 0,55kW/400V/50Hz
4.2.2. Cassette honey extractors with upper
drives
• Cassette honey extractor are intended for bigger
apiaries. The spinning cycle occurs in two
directions and owing to the guides installed, there
is no need to rearrange the cassettes manually and
the possibility of their jamming is excluded
Engines in cassette honey extractors
• 720 – 0,37 kW/400V/50Hz – 4-cassette honey
extractors.
• 800 – 0,37 kW/400V/50Hz-extractors with 4
cassettes, 6 cassettes.
5. Controlling in cassette or radial honey
extractors with upper or bottom drives
5.1. Semi-automatic controlling
• HHoney extractor with this controller may work in a
manual mode ( 2 programmes) and automatic
mode. In manual mode speed and direction may be
set in manual mode with a potentiometer
• pAutomatic mode is factory-set
5.2. Automatic controlling
• Automatic mode has 8 programmes. The first two of
them are intended to work in a manual mode, the
third one – automatic, is set by default
• pProgrammes from 4 to 8 allow to enter own
settings. Each programme consists of 7 steps.
During each step three parameters may be set up:
time of step starting, set speed and spinning
direction. The last step defines the time for the
extractor basket stopping. .
5.3. Advanced automatic controlling
• has 8 fully programmable automatic cycles
• 2 automatic manual cycles
• big (4,3”),coloured TFT graphic display with energy
saving LED backlight and the resolution of
480x272 pixels
• handling through 8 ergonomically arranged
controlling buttons
• simple and intuitive user’s interface using high-
contrast graphics to provide high visibility
• graphic editor for spinning cycles – equipped with
the function of parameter auto-correction
• 2 independent extractor operating time meters