The Cat® 796 AC electric drive truck stands out in its size class, offering unparalleled flexibility, optimized performance, and enhanced productivity. Utilizing a robust truck architecture and high-strength structures, the 796 AC consistently delivers a nominal target payload of up to 327 tonnes (360 tons), regardless of attachments. With a proven drive system featuring industry-leading serviceability, this mining truck ensures dependable hauling solutions, resulting in high reliability, exceptional availability, and minimized lifecycle costs. By consistently increasing haulage capacity with every load, cycle, and shift, the 796 AC enables a low-cost-per-ton operation, ultimately driving a stronger bottom line for your business.
Safety Features:
- Enhanced Visibility: Benefit from a wide field of view from the cab and improved right-hand visibility with the radial retard grid, ensuring operators have better situational awareness and can navigate the work environment more safely.
- Safer Access and Egress: Enjoy safer entry and exit from the machine with 600-mm-wide ladders, a flat deck, toe kicks, and the option of a power access stair attachment, reducing the risk of slips, trips, and falls during operation.
- Confidence-Building Features: Increase operator confidence with anti-rollback, traction controls, reverse shift inhibitor, Automatic Retarding Control, and door sensor warning for park brake application, providing reassurance and promoting safe operation in various conditions.
- Dynamic Retarding and Braking: Experience stable handling and confident stopping with full dynamic retarding through a compact radial grid and Caterpillar four-corner oil-cooled brakes, ensuring reliable performance and control on steep grades and during braking maneuvers.
- Emergency Controllability: Ensure emergency controllability with a fully independent secondary brake system featuring a hydraulically actuated secondary brake pedal, serving as a backup to electronic controls, providing operators with added assurance and control in critical situations.
Product Features for CAT 796 AC Mining Trucks:
Productivity:
- Achieve a class-leading 327-tonne (360-ton) payload consistently, regardless of local attachments, ensuring optimal productivity.
- Experience ease of operation and reduced costs through deep integration of Cat engine, AC drive system, hydraulics, and controls, enhancing efficiency and performance.
- Gain end-to-end visibility of all truck parameters for optimized fuel efficiency, speed on grade, and parasitic loads across the operating range, maximizing productivity.
- Enjoy excellent slow speed control within service areas and superior motor torque and acceleration when pulling away from the shovel, ensuring efficient operation.
Operator Comfort:
- Enhance operator comfort with an ergonomic cab layout, excellent all-around visibility, and intuitively positioned controls, levers, and switches for ease of use.
- Benefit from automatic climate control and reduced vibration and sound levels, creating a comfortable working environment.
- Experience next-generation seating with height adjuster, adjustable shoulder stock, and bolstered seat back, side, and lumbar support, promoting stability and comfort during long shifts.
Serviceability:
- Maximize uptime with high displacement, low rpm rating, and conservative horsepower ratings, allowing more time on the haul road and less time in the shop.
- Facilitate easier maintenance with inlet manifolds and turbochargers located outside the engine’s V, providing technicians with more workspace within the engine bay.
- Streamline serviceability with separately serviceable engine and dual-bearing drive alternator, sealed and pressurized inverter cabinet, and engine walkways and service platforms.
Durability and Long Life:
- Ensure long-term reliability with a first overhaul life of 25,000 hours, supported by the proven C175 engine and electric drive system.
- Benefit from outstanding durability delivered by a highly validated and proven straight frame rail design, box section construction, and deep section main rails in critical areas.
- Increase frame life with components built to be rebuilt, offering multiple lives of like-new performance at a fraction-of-new price.
Proven AC Drive & Powertrain:
- Reduce operating costs with an integrated engine and powertrain designed, validated, and built by Caterpillar, ensuring reliability and efficiency.
- Experience reduced maintenance with a high-voltage system operating at lower current, radial style retarding grid with AC electric motor, and variable hydraulic blower fan for optimized cooling.
Sustainability:
- Contribute to sustainability efforts with reduced fuel consumption, optional U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final / EU Stage V engine, and engines compatible with lower-carbon intensity fuels.
- Minimize waste with features like the Centrifugal Oil Filter (COF), standard self-cleaning engine filter, extended oil change intervals, and compatibility with biofuels and renewable fuels.
Technology Solutions:
- Stay informed and proactive with the standard Product Link™ Elite monitoring system, factory-ready integration for Cat MineStar™ Command for hauling, and optional MineStar Fleet and MineStar Detect systems.
- Improve operator safety with optional in-cab Cat Driver Safety System (DSS), intervening in case of operator fatigue or distraction.
Cat Bodies:
- Optimize truck performance with bodies designed to fit the chassis, sized to meet payload requirements, and configured for specific mine needs.
- Choose the High Efficiency (HE) dump body option for lightweight, simplified, and durable performance, maximizing payload while ensuring long life.
Product Specifications for CAT 796 AC Mining Trucks:
Engine:
- Gross Power (SAE J1995): 3500 HP
- Engine Model: Cat® C175-16
- Net Power (SAE J1349): 3405 HP
- Rated Speed: 1800 r/min
- Emissions Rating: Fuel Optimized
- Bore: 6.9 in
- Stroke: 8.7 in
- Displacement: 5187 in³
Weights – Approximate:
- Nominal Rated Payload: 360 tons (US)
- Rated Gross Machine Weight: 1,270,000 lb
- Chassis Weight: 448,415 lb
- Body Weight Range: 38,833 – 42,907 kg (85,611 – 94,594 lb)
Weight Distributions – Approximate:
- Front Axle – Empty: 47%
- Rear Axle – Empty: 53%
- Front Axle – Loaded: 33%
- Rear Axle – Loaded: 67%
AC Drive System:
- Total Reduction Ratio: 35:01:00
- Top Speed – Loaded: 40 mile/h
Tires:
- Standard Tires: 59/80 R63
- Rims: 44″ x 63″
Braking System:
- Service Brakes: Four-Corner, Wet Disc, Oil Cooled, Hydraulically Actuated
- Front Wet Disc Brake Surface Area: 20378 in²
- Rear Wet Disc Brake Surface Area: 30750 in²
- Dynamic Retarding Power – Continuous: 5480 HP
Capacity – HE Body – 100% Fill Factor:
- Struck: 97-153 m³ (127-200 yd³)
- Heaped (SAE 2:1): 186-237 m³ (243-310 yd³)
Body Hoists:
- Type: Twin, two-stage hydraulic cylinders with snubbing valve.
- Pump Flow – High Idle: 257.3 gal/min
- Relief Valve Setting – Raise: 3029 psi
- Body Raise Time – High Idle: 21 s
- Body Lower Time – Float: 22 s
- Body Power Down – High Idle: 17.5 s
Suspension:
- Type: Self-contained nitrogen/oil cylinders, pin-to-pin mounting, top & bottom double shear clevis attachments
- Effective Cylinder Stroke – Front: 4 in
- Effective Cylinder Stroke – Rear: 2 in
- Rear Axle – Oscillation: +/- 5.32 degrees
Service Refill Capacities:
- Fuel Tank: 1300 gal (US)
- Diesel Exhaust Fluid Tank: 100 gal (US)
- Cooling System: 211 gal (US)
- Crankcase: 82 gal (US)
- Hydraulic Tank: 296 gal (US)
- Grease Tank: 90 lb
Cab:
- Air Conditioning: HFC – 134A refrigerant: 21,600 Btu/h
- Heater / Defroster: 24,600 Btu/h
- ROPS Standards: Rollover Protective Structure meets ISO 3471:2008 for Operator and ISO 13459:2012 for Trainer.
- FOPS Standards: Falling Objects Protective Structure meets ISO 3449:2005 Level II for Operator and ISO 13459:2012 Level II for Trainer.
Sound:
- Sound Standards: The operator sound pressure level, 75 dB(A), measured according to ISO 6394:2008 and ISO 6396:2008.
Steering:
- Steer Angle: 39 °
- Turning Diameter – Front: 106.3 ft
- Steering Standards: ISO 5010:2007
Dimensions (Approximate):
- Height – Top of ROPS: 22.05 ft
- Overall Length: 51.44 ft
- Wheel Base: 21.9 ft
- Rear Axle – Tail: 16.07 ft
- Dump Clearance – Empty: 5.72 ft
- Loading Height – Empty: 23.85 ft
- Overall Height – Body Raised: 48.85 ft
- Centerline Front Tire Width: 23.06 ft
- Front Axle Clearance – Loaded: 2.81 ft
- Overall Canopy Width (with rock deflectors): 33.15 ft
- Outside Body/Canopy Width (without rock deflectors): 31.62 ft
- Inside Body Width: 29.44 ft
- Front Canopy Height – Empty: 26.01 ft
- Rear Axle Clearance – Loaded: 2.8 ft
- Centerline of Rear Dual Tire Width: 19.5 ft
- Overall Tire Width – Empty: 30.27 ft
Further information on this machine can be viewed by visiting this link
https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/off-highway-trucks/mining-trucks/15970072.html
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