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Segmented Trip Edge and Smart Control Module

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The Defiance Snowplow features a segmented trip edge, with four independent segments for the main blade and separate segments for each wing. This design allows individual sections of the cutting edge to trip independently when encountering obstacles, reducing shock to the vehicle and potential damage to the plow. A unique electronic control module, housed within the plow (soon to be integrated into the pump housing), utilizes sensors on each wing and the main blade. This 'logic' system senses the position of the main blade and wings, preventing the wings from retracting too far and colliding with the truck's side, thus safeguarding the vehicle from damage.

Goal: Understand the advanced safety and control features integrated into the Defiance Snowplow.

Tools and materials

  • Defiance Snowplow Defiance — Demonstrating trip edge and control module
  • Electronic Control Module Defiance — Managing plow functions and safety interlocks
  • Sensors — Detecting wing and blade positions

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radar screen. >> So, show me what we're actually looking at with cutting edges. How did you handle that with and trip edges I should say, I apologize. How did you handle that, Cal? >> Well, we have a segmented trip edge. So, we have four segments for the main blade and each wing trips independently. >> Okay. So, you've got 1 2 3 four segmented and then each one of these trips independently. >> Correct. Yes. >> Okay. And as we look Also, it just folds back. >> It's just a trip fold back trip >> just a fold back trip edge. Now, as I'm looking down here, I'm seeing this which I'm not familiar with seeing on a snow plow. What am I looking at with this? >> That's our control module. >> Okay. >> That's going to in production, that's going to be housed inside the pump housing. But that controls the logic of the plow and and what we have in terms of logic is we have a sensor on each wing. And we have one that is on the main blade. And what that does is it allows the the uh control module knows where the main blade is in relationship to the wing so you don't If you have the wing partly folded back, let's see, you can't damage the vehicle. >> Oh. Oh. >> where everything is at in relation to the main blade and the wing. >> So, if you have this folded partially back and you decide to bring it all the way in, it's going to stop it from smashing into the side of the truck. >> Correct. >> Oh, wow. That's a unique way of approaching that. >> So, that's uh That That program is uh being worked out and it's it's about dialed, but we still have a few tweaks to to do. >> Now, this is where the red flags are starting to go off in my head on this design because I'm not a fan of sensors or I don't really want to feel like I needed a green electrical engineering to understand how to keep my snow plow in operation at Sunday at midnight when something goes wrong with it. I want these things to be as simple to to I want these things as simple as possible and it just seems like we're moving away from simplicity to more technology the more advanced these snow plows get and I would love to see a plow design go bass-ackward. Still have a lot of the bells and whistles that Cal has on this thing but have a mechanical ability so that as you're you

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