About
15 years in custom solenoid and solenoid valve design, selection, simulation and failure analysis.
I design and troubleshoot custom solenoids and solenoid valves. Fifteen years across export sales, domestic sales, project design, electromagnetic simulation and customer-side failure investigation.
This site is a personal notebook. It records how to solve the problems that come up in real projects — which checks actually decide the outcome, and what order to run them in.
What I can help with
- Selection and working-condition matching for custom solenoids and valves
- Force and stroke feasibility judgement before you commit to a design
- Failure investigation: weak force, sticking, overheating, leakage, life
- Reviewing a supplier's proposal or a second opinion on an existing design
Typical project types
Most work falls into one of these categories. The details differ every time, but the limiting condition is usually recognisable from the category alone.
- Vending and retail equipment — locks, product release, drawer and flap mechanisms
- Smart locks and access control — battery-powered latching actuators, inrush budgeting
- Beverage and coffee equipment — valve bodies, hot-water service, scale tolerance
- Medical and laboratory instruments — low-noise actuation, repeatability, material traceability
- Automotive and off-highway — cold start, vibration, dust and washdown
- HVAC and damper control — 24 V AC drives, spring return, position holding
- Agricultural and outdoor equipment — dust ingress, condensation, long storage
Working across sales, design, simulation and customer-side failure analysis means the same mechanism turns up under different names. A lock that sticks in a cold climate and a valve that sticks after a season in storage often share one cause: a grease that has stopped behaving like a lubricant. Recognising that early is usually worth more than another round of measurement.
Contact
The most reliable way is email: hello@solenoidwork.com
Please include the working conditions — stroke, force, voltage, duty cycle, size envelope — and what you have already tried. That is usually enough for a first judgement without any drawings.