Penny + Giles Expands JC6000 Joystick Controller Range With Heavy Duty Option

Commenting on support for existing customers, Kevin Rayment, managing director of Penny + Giles explains: “Joystick controllers manufactured with the standard-strength mechanism will remain in production to support customers’ existing systems and spares requirements.”

The increased strength of the new heavy-duty JC6000 has been achieved by redesigning the body casting, which the company claims has increased across-axis fatigue life by a factor of five. The heavy-duty version will also use a new gaiter designed specifically to accommodate the increased strength of the body casting.

For new applications and to ensure that all Penny + Giles customers can benefit from the improved fatigue performance, the new heavy-duty version is designed be used as an alternative to existing single-axis, spring-return joystick controllers, as both versions share the same panel mounting detail.

The new JC6000 heavy-duty joystick controller is available with long life potentiometer track sensors with auxiliary contacting directional switch tracks, single/dual non-contact Hall-effect sensors (or a combination of both), Can (J1939) and Can-Extended input interfaces and is designed to share all the standard JC6000 handles and grips.

Penny + Giles other popular JC6000 joystick controllers include single-axis friction-hold versions for construction equipment requiring high manoeuvrability; and CAN-bus output options enabling OEMs to improve control systems in off-highway construction, municipal and agricultural vehicles.

In fact, with choices from Hall effect sensors to potentiometer tracks; handles and grips; single-, dual- and multiple-axes; and various IP ratings, Penny + Giles claims that there are over one million configurations available for its JC6000 joystick controller range.