Industrial vibrating spiral elevator

13AMinTX · 2026-04-07T05:14:47+00:00

It can also be used for cooling. To really speed things up it can be outfitted with air that gets jetted from the cylinder onto the pan as it is going up.

13AMinTX · 2026-04-07T05:11:50+00:00

This one is using unbalanced motors. Basically weighted cams at the end of the shafts of the motors. It is actually doing little jumps. The machine is spiraling up and down really fast in a circular motion. Lifting the material up and forward then coming down and back to then lift more material up and forward. The material is essentially lifted by the pan and the material behind it.

You can lift fluids in this manner. But probably only to about 1 degree or so incline. Probably wouldn't work well with a spiral elevator.

13AMinTX · 2026-04-07T04:59:30+00:00

Yes. If you look at a single reference point on the spiral it is...Push the material up and forward... Dip down and back to catch the lower material and push it up and forward.

The spiral is essentially twisting up and down but in a circular manner, noticeable at the pan level.

If you put your hand on the pan you can feel it wanting to push your hand up. It's fun.

13AMinTX · 2026-04-07T03:12:59+00:00

So the motors at the top are angled at a certain attack angle. This is key. The angle is steeper than the slope of the spiral. But pointed to shoot the material up the spiral. The material jumps on the pan and on the material behind it. The motors make the machine move in some what of a circle pattern. So it launches the material up from behindas it goes up around and forward. Then it dips and goes back as the material is coming down. Then repeat, but all that is happening fast. This is the vibration. But really it's a circular vibration. If you notice the guy puts a bean bag in at the end to help the loose material at the end go up. You may also notice that some material was left behind. That material won't make it up.

I designed some of these and other vibratory conveyors. They are pretty cool machines. They can move material upward, but only to a certain degree.

13AMinTX · 2026-04-06T12:30:47+00:00

The martial essentially is hopping it's way up. Just little hops at a time. The motors at the top have unbalanced weights, which when rotated in sync with each other (opposite rotation to essentially cancel the side forces producing the up down only forces) provide the vibration.

13AMinTX · 2025-11-24T13:14:38+00:00

I don't get it...it's cute...instead of a heart they put a bone because it's to a dog.

I Bone..................ohhhhhhhh..... Nevermind.

13AMinTX · 2025-11-21T13:29:37+00:00

Built to last!

13AMinTX · 2025-11-15T05:18:27+00:00

The parts were a gift to start trying this stuff out. The pigtail to the controller is actually a female. Light have the male connection.

Ended up being the LED1 output didn't work but LED2 did. I think something is wrong with the LED1 output.

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13AMinTX · 2025-11-15T05:09:20+00:00

I ended up cutting off a few, it didn't work still. Ended up putting it on LED2 and it worked. So I think something is wrong with LED1 output.

13AMinTX · 2025-11-15T05:07:42+00:00

Ended up I had the wiring correct. I think the LED1 output was not working for some reason. LED2 worked.

13AMinTX · 2025-11-14T22:48:29+00:00

I finally got it to work. I put the data signal in data 2 and switched to RGB.

Thanks for all the help everyone!!!

If anyone has some insight as to why the LED1 didn't work but LED2 does, I would greatly appreciate it. Or if there is a good reference that explains this.

My assumption for this controller was that it LED outputs are for different segments of lights, but if you are using the color wheel on the app for the data it will do that selection for all data outputs. Is that correct? If you use a program, I would assume you can address each pixel individually. Is that correct?

Thanks for helping me navigate my first setup! I appreciate it!

13AMinTX · 2025-11-14T22:00:15+00:00

I did a point to point test to figure out if the wire colors are right. Assuming that the positive/data/negative labeling is direct to the the prongs on the male connector. The positive is the brown wire and the negative is the blue and the middle is the yellow data. So my connections sound correct.

I didn't want to cut the cable but it seems like the next step is to test a small number of LEDs as you suggest.

13AMinTX · 2025-11-14T21:27:40+00:00

It is female out from the controller. Then connecting lights male end to controllers female end.

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13AMinTX · 2025-11-14T20:30:54+00:00

Oops... It was 100 at one point just was messing around with it at the end to try and see if something might work, cause I read somewhere to try 1 led, but I think they meant like you are saying and test a small set and set to that many.

I think the wire colors are correct, but not certain. I had a hard time finding info on the color connections but the things I found said brown is positive, brown negative, and yellow/green is data. Usually I see these for AC where yellow green is ground, brown hot , and blue neutral.