The new Super 1800-5 X SprayJet from Joseph Vögele AG features a spray width of up to 8.25 m, precise metering of low spray rates and a spray module with optional heating for residual emulsion. New Dash 5 technologies ensure ease of use, shorter setup times and automated processes.
More applications
Spray pavers apply bitumen emulsion and asphalt surface courses in a single pass. This results in an optimal bond between layers, saving time, material and costs. With the new Super 1800-5 X SprayJet, Vögele is now introducing a model that offers more applications, a high level of user-friendliness and new automation solutions. Like its predecessor, the new machine can be used either as a conventional road paver or as a spray paver.
As a standard paver, it provides a paving width of up to 9.25 m; as a spray paver, it provides a spraying width of up to 8.25 m. This is 2.25 m more than before, enabling construction companies to use the machine both in the local authority sector and for motorway refurbishment projects. The spray module’s insulated emulsion tank has a capacity of 2,100 l, and an optional additional emulsion tank increases the capacity to 7,100 l.
With a motor power of 129 kW and a laydown rate of 700 t/hr, the Super 1800-5 X SprayJet is also highly efficient. A wide range of new technologies make users’ day-to-day work easier – including the ErgoPlus 5 operating concept, which allows the machine to be put into service at the touch of a button using Paver Access Control (PAC), the optional Lighting Package Plus, and automation solutions such as the Smart Pave digital paver control system and digital site documentation with WPT Paving.
The Super 1800-5 X SprayJet is fitted with five spray bars, which are positioned between, behind and to the sides of the crawler tracks. The arrangement enables seamless application of emulsion, even when the paving width varies. With two additional bolt-on extensions, the maximum spray width of 8.25 m can be achieved. The spray nozzles operate in pulse mode at a maximum pressure of 3 bar and are available in 07, 10 and 16 sizes, with flow rates of 70%, 100% and 160%, respectively.
Optimised calibration delivers extremely precise application across the entire spray width – including with small quantities. To maintain the temperature of small quantities of emulsion (less than 300 l) until the end of the operation, the new model is now available in a version with an additional heater. This allows residual emulsion to be used up completely, even with a low spray rate and at low outside temperatures.
New operating concept
With the new ErgoPlus 5 operating concept, the Super 1800-5 X SprayJet is consistently tailored to users’ needs. Vögele has optimised the paver operator’s console, simplifying the operation of SprayJet functions, improving the design, reducing the overall height to provide more legroom, and integrating extra storage options, for example for a smartphone. The new SmartWheel allows for particularly precise fine-tuning of the spray paver. The optional touch screen also facilitates convenient monitoring and operation of existing and future digital solutions.
The tank is fitted with a new, high-contrast, high-resolution display, enabling operators to view the readings clearly. Key functions and information relating to the SprayJet module can also be accessed via the displays on the screed control consoles. In addition, with Paver Access Control (PAC), users can start up the spray paver at the touch of a button. A separate control unit lets users manage all the initial steps safely and conveniently. On night-time construction sites, the Light Package Plus option ensures shorter setup times: two LED spotlights, permanently integrated into the hardtop and canopy, illuminate the paver and screed area across the entire paving width. The new model is equipped with a windscreen.
Furthermore, the Super 1800-5 X SprayJet helps users with steering and levelling: the Grade Assist, AutoTrac and Smart Pave automation solutions control profile paving, as well as the direction and width, of the Dash 5 paver. Cloud-based jobsite intelligence solutions such as Wirtgen Group Performance Tracker (WPT) Paving and the new RoadScan help paving teams collect and analyse relevant paving, temperature and machine data in real time, and optimise the entire process.
