A question on rear remotes for MT242HC

[PineRidge]

I’m a soon to be a new owner of a MT242HC and need info regarding rear remotes. I need a total of 4-rear remotes and expected that could be accomplished using a Summit Multiplier. The dealer is telling me that first a 2nd LS rear remote needs be installed before they can connect a Summit Multiplier, can anyone verify that this is a true statement? Can’t the Summit Multiplier pick up hydraulics necessary from power beyond eliminating a $900.00 charge for the 2nd remote. I’m not kicking about the $1300.00 price tag for the Summit unit but $900.00 plus $1300.00 seems excessive. Thanks for your input.

 

[LouNY]

Are you needing 4 remotes or 2 remotes with 4 ports for hoses?
Also to answer this requires the knowledge of which Summit remote package you are looking at.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Just get the 4 multiplier set from Summit. You only need a single rear remote.
These are not control valves which would need power beyond, they are DIVERTER valves.

Hydraulic Multiplier Kit, 4 Circuit Selector Valve Including Couplers and Switch Box Control

Hydraulic Multiplier Kit, 4 Circuit Selector Valve Including Couplers and Switch Box Control

summit-hydraulics.com

I typically do not recommend Summit stuff, but you are trying to do this economically, so remember you get what you pay for.

 

[PineRidge]

Just get the 4 multiplier set from Summit. You only need a single rear remote.
These are not control valves which would need power beyond, they are DIVERTER valves.

Hydraulic Multiplier Kit, 4 Circuit Selector Valve Including Couplers and Switch Box Control

Hydraulic Multiplier Kit, 4 Circuit Selector Valve Including Couplers and Switch Box Control

summit-hydraulics.com

I typically do not recommend Summit stuff, but you are trying to do this economically, so remember you get what you pay for.

What brand do you recommend, I’m open to all suggestions as I haven’t purchased as of yet and have no preferences either way.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

What brand do you recommend, I’m open to all suggestions as I haven’t purchased as of yet and have no preferences either way.

This is what I normally sell for your set of requirements. Cast iron Rexroth-Bosch diverters with an actual control grip that goes on the single rear remote lever.

No rocker switches to actuate, then move your control lever. Everything is done from the single control lever. You can control 4 separate functions and never take your hand from the control
lever.
The far right set is your default set, simply move the lever. The 3 sets of couplers that are on the face of the diverters are controlled with 2 button switches and a trigger switch to actuate the desired diverter and then you move the lever as you would with any other manual control.
So feathering is not an issue.

 

[PineRidge]

Having a hard time wrapping my head around this. The new tractor will come equipped with one factory rear remote and I will need 3 additional. So where does the kit that you recommend pick up the hydraulic supply to feed the divertor?

Can you supply a link so that I may learn more and possibly see the wiring involved?

 

[Harry in Ky]

It doesn't seem all that complicated to me. You have one valve and one pair of couplers. You install a package with three solenoids and three more pairs of couplers. The first pair of couplers are in use when you activate the valve. If you trigger one of the solenoids and activate that same valve the flow is out/in another pair of couplers, not the first pair. The same valve sends the oil, just through a different set of couplers.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Having a hard time wrapping my head around this. The new tractor will come equipped with one factory rear remote and I will need 3 additional. So where does the kit that you recommend pick up the hydraulic supply to feed the divertor?

Can you supply a link so that I may learn more and possibly see the wiring involved?

You are thinking that these are separate control valves, THEY ARE NOT. Read post #3 again.

This or any set of diverters is supplied with a single set of couplers that you already have for the existing single rear remote. The OEM rear remote couplers ARE THE SUPPLY.

Imagine a train going down the tracks. (the normal route from the OEM set of couplers)
Now it comes to a Y in the track. (It enters the diverter valve stack) The train can continue on straight on the main line or open one of the sidings and go off to a different (chosen) destination. All you are doing with the diverter is opening one of the 3 Y sidings so that the train (hydraulic fluid) goes to a different selected destination. ( the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd) set of couplers.
The 4th (last) set of couplers are the default set of couplers. You do not actuate any solenoid if you choose the last set of couplers of the 4 sets (far right set)

As far as wiring, a hot wire is run to the pistol control grip that will be installed on your existing control lever from the factory. Then there will be 3 other wires run, one each to each solanoid.
Each solanoid gets grounded separately.

Pretty simple actually.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

This picture is a 3 OEM valve set with a double diverter set added.
The left-hand OEM valve feeds the double diverter set.
The default left-side couplers is now the far right-side set of couplers.
This picture is simply to show you the valve work ports supplying the diverter supply ports.

 

[PineRidge]

I’m sure this compares to what I did in 2002 to my TC40D New Holland. I needed a 3rd function for a grapple and purchased a hydraulic diverter from Surplus Hydraulics. I rerouted the supply to the curl to the diverter and then one side of it went to the grapple. Had the button incorporated into the loader joystick so whenever I pressed and held it the grapple would open/close and when I took pressure off the button curl would work as it should