Locomotive carbon brush

Overview
Despite continuous load and climate-related stress, our high-grade carbon strips are durable, extremely resilient and have a long service life. Their excellent electrical conductivity ensures reliable, low-maintenance operation. The integral carbon strips are RAMS-optimized and, thanks to a wide selection of materials and advanced production technology, can be adapted to customer requirements for many applications.

You benefit from these advantages:

• Optimized carbon-based material combinations
• Extended service life due to material selection and production standards
• Low-maintenance and environmentally friendly system design
• High arc resistance
• Extremely low catenary wire wear for effective catenary protection
• Available in standard and custom solutions for multiple applications

Product type
Contact strip / arc protection solution for railway applications (integral carbon strip).

Characteristics / technical specifications

• Material: integral carbon-based contact strips
• Designed for continuous mechanical load and climate-related stress
• High electrical conductivity for reliable performance
• RAMS-optimized design (reliability, availability, maintainability, safety)
• Material variants and production technology adaptable to customer requirements
• Low maintenance and environmentally friendly system
• High arc resistance
• Minimized catenary wire wear for optimum catenary protection
• Available in special and standard solutions for multiple applications
• Manufacturer/Brand: Schunk Transit Systems