Total time of the test shall be 24 hour (3 cycles of 8 hours each)
The 8 hour cycle test shall be as following
The test field shall be at 30m away from the Crane transverse track. A semi-trailer with a fully loaded (35t) container which is 8'6" high and 40’ long is parked on the tractor lane. Two 9'6” high 40’ containers shall be stacked at each "Row No.1", “Row No. 2”, "Row No.3" and "Row No.4" respectively. Pick up the container from the semi-trailer and lift it up and traverse it passing over "Row No. 1” and “Row No.3” and land it on the container on "Row No. 4” and then immediately lift it up and back to semi-controller and lock it properly. The spreader is lifted up again after twist locks shall be off and pass over “Row No.1” and land it on the container on “Row No.3” and then immediately lift up the spreader on the semi-trailer and lock properly. This is an entire duty cycle operation.
After every 10 times of continuous cycles, gantry is operated once to travel 30m and returned to the original point and the cycle operation is continued.
The cumulative down time must not exceed 0.5 hour with in 8 hour of test cycle. Incase of down time more than 0.5 hour the test cycle of 8 hour shall repeat subsequently at the end of 24 hour testing.