LC1600: Muscular and Strong
The new series of modular flat-top tower cranes launched by Linden Comansa sits between the LC1100 and LC2100 families and shares numerous elements with tahem.

Linden Comansa keeps aloft its high pace of work in the development of products and, a little while after presenting a new series of luffers, now launches a new series of flat top tower cranes. The LC1600 will be com?mercialised in October and will be formed by models 16 LC 185, 16 LC 220 and 16 LC 260, which will come in different versions of maximum load

The LC1600 series has been designed with Linden Comansa?s fundamental pre?mises in mind: modularity and easiness of both assembly and transport. Due to its load cap?acity between 8 and 12 tonne, the new series places bet?ween the LC1100 (5 to 8 tonne) and LC2100 (12 to 48 tonne) fam?ilies. In addition, the LC1600 family unites the adva?ntages of both series, with which shares numerous elements.

The development of this new series implies in addition the disappearance of two models of the series LC2100. The 21 LC 170 and 21 LC 210 cranes, with very similar characteristics to the new models as for jib len?gth and load capacity, will stop being produced mainly due to the advantages applied in the LC1600 series, and to the even more competitive prices of the new models.

The LC1600 series cranes share the jib sections and the counterweights with those of the LC1100. The interchange?ability does not end there, since the counterjib of the LC1600, more compact, is compatible with the one from the LC1100 series, allowing to reduce the counter-jib radius of this one. In add?ition, the trolley and hoist mechanisms and the trolley-hook joint of the cranes from the LC1100 series can be used in the cranes of the series LC1600, which supposes a great ad?vantage for those clie?nts who own cranes of both series.

With the LC2100 series, the new family shares the 2-m wide tower sections, as well as the climbing cage and the 4.5 and 6-m wide cross bases. With a transition section, the cranes of the LC1600 family can be erected on 2.5-m wide tower sections, to obtain freestanding heights superior to 100 m.

The cranes don?t have an apex element in strict sense. The first counter jib section is placed on the gyratory part and, once mounted, the first jib sec?tion joins in one end and the rest of the counter jib at the ot?her. This beginning of counter-jib, which also shelters the hoist mechanism, is more compact than the apex elements of both cranes that will not be produced anymore. Due to this, the tran?sport speeds up and some unload maneuvers before the erection are avoided. This design, which saves costs in equipment and improves the labours of erection, is based on the 21 LC 750, the first Linden Comansa model without an apex element.

The double trolley system of these cranes is similar to the one successfully used in the LC1100 and LC2100 series, though it has been adapted to maximum loads of 12 tonne. The trolley-hook joint, with pre-installed reevings, comes in a frame to ease the assembly, transport and storage.

The hoist mechanisms include the Effi-Plus System, which improves up to 70 per cent the speed of hoist and descend movements. With this system, the productivity during hoist operation is improved up to 27 per cent, without any increase in power or electricity consumption.

The jib sections are narrow, and the tower sections can be dis?mantled in panels, which eases the transport of the crane. The elements of LC1600 have been designed by light erection weights, which al?l??ows a faster and safer assembly.

The cranes of the C1600 series are the first from Linden Comansa to include frequency con?trol in the slewing move?ment. This system makes the most of the energy, and there?fore, allows a minor consum?ption, keeping the same mano?euverability and identical sen????sations for the crane ope?rator. In addition, the smaller size and less warming of the en?gine, as well as the use of the same brake and weathervane that most of Linden Comansa?s cranes, minimise possible main?tenance problems and search of replacements.