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Setting Tools

With over forty years of experience in designing products for traction, Mersen have developed and deliver the adapted setting tools adapted for your overhaul maintenance level to ensure and guarantee the quality for your products during the life time of the train.

The setting tool is mandatory to maintain your CCD when comes the overhaul time.
With over forty years of experience in designing products for traction, Mersen have developed and deliver the adapted setting tools adapted for your overhaul maintenance level to ensure and guarantee the quality for your products during the life time of the train.

The setting tool is mandatory to maintain your CCD when comes the overhaul time.
  • Benefits

    Uses of Setting Tools

    Mersen Setting Tool’s are designed to be very compact and easy to use. They are customized and adapted to your Current Collector Device. With them, you will set perfectly your CCD to the technical requirements of your network and optimize their use.
    High, Low and nominal position can be set, also, the tool include a pressure measurement system to check the pressure of the CCD on the 3rd rail. 
    This tool is mandatory to succeed in the great overhaul to guarantee a reliable service and longer life time of your CCD fleet.

     


     

  • Design Guide

    • PTRV Setting tools Mersen

      Pressure of the shoe

      Against the third rail

      The setting tool is equipped with a pressure controller to check the pressure of the CCD shoe against the third rail.

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      Manual or Pneumatic retraction

      Easy to check

      It is easy to check the manual and pneumatic retractions positions with the jig

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      Retraction position indication

      Micro contact

      If the CCD is equipped with a micro contact to inform the driver of the retracted position of the CCD, you can easy check it.

    • Setting tools kits mersen

      Spare part kits to

      guarantee the reliability and increase the life time of your Setting Tools

      - cables,
      - fuses,
      - replacement shoes and arms,
      - Hardware and
      - all necessary components

    • Setting tools training mersen

      Training and assistance

      Support

      Mersen Design team is available to support your design and maintenance team’s especially for the smart and connected functions.
      Mersen Service team can train your Maintenance team to make the setting and the maintenance of your installations all around the world.

    • CCD-studies-mersen

      LCC; RAMS; Type tests

      Tests and studies

      Mersen team provide type test and different studies (Life Cycle Cost, RAMS, FMEA, Eco Design and recyclability, etc…) to secure the reliability of your CCD solution and its conformity to standards and legislations.

  • Maintening your CCD

    • Compact and manual retraction w/o Fuse box
    • Compact and manual retraction including Fuse box
    • Compact and Pneumatic retraction w/o fuse box
    • Compact and Pneumatic retraction including fuse box
    • Fixed on beam
    • Positive fuse box included
    • Positive Track with separate Fuse box
    • Negative (sliding on the track)
    • Negative (sliding on a lateral rail)
    • Dual lateral contact
    • Monorail
    • Static Contact (tramway and electrical buses) ground and roof
    • Sliding Contact (tramway)
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    • Fuse boxes
    • Connection boxes
    • On-board Disconnectors and Inverters
    • Surge arresters
    • Grounding devices (ERCU’s)
    • On-board Energy measurement
    • On-board Resistors
    • Spare parts
    • Training
    Open Black Fuse Box with open cover and parallel fuses with microswitch
    • Steel wheel Metro (Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Madrid, Bangalore, Beijing, Alger, Cairo, Istanbul, …)
    • Pneumatic wheel Metro (Paris, Montreal, Santiago of Chile),
    • Monorail (Las Vegas)
    • Driverless metro applications (Toulouse, Lille, Roissy Airport, Orly Airport, Turino, Seoul airport, Taipei, Chicago, …)
    • Catenary less tramway (Luxemburg, Nice, Saragossa)
    • Electrical buses (under test)
    train moving fast
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