Scott
What are you looking for I have some older drawing of the controllers., with DB and plugging control and frequency acceleration relays.
The older models were really neat as compared to how it is done today.
One manufacture was the Paulings and Harnishfeger and there cranes were all Wound rotor motors with huge gear boxes with mechanical brakes with clutches on them to allow slip and plug stopping and reversing.
The scary thing is when the load is rated more than the crane, the operator has the hoist going up but the load is still coming down and generally they would burn up the resistances of the hoist motor. But the motor was usually fine.
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