Many of us who own our truck, regularly drive long distances. It is pretty common to put thousands of miles on our trucks in a month (many times in a week) and so we need our truck to be reliable. It isn’t like there is a performance shop or repair facility every few miles along the highway.

The Velocity 200 has a built in Air/Fuel separator system. These pumps are capable of flowing 200 gallons per minute under rated pressure.

So, when we start looking at upgrading our rigs, reliability is important. Fuelab understands and that is a key principle behind how their pumps work. Fuel pumps are basically electric motors that are connected to something that moves fuel.

In a traditional electric motor, there is an armature that spins around. This armature has a lot of wires wrapped around it.  The wires are all connected to a commutator. The commutator basically energizes the windings via a set of brushes. The brushes usually have some sort of a spring backing to ensure they are always in contact with the commutator.

If you have ever rebuilt an electric motor, then you are aware that the most common part of a pump to fail or wear out are the brushes. This is by design. With Fuelab’s pumps, they decided to take a different approach. Their fuel pumps are brushless to reduce the maintenance cost and potential down time.

The Velocity 100 is a high volume low pressure lift pump. They are internally regulated to 18psi.

“One of the advantages with our brushless DC system is that since we are brushless, diesel fuel won’t affect our motors as they have others,” says Rob Scharfenberg from Fuelab. “The low sulfur content tends to wear out the commutator and brush assemblies. So, now many companies are using shaft seals and a separated motor. That becomes a reliability issue because of leakage at the shaft seal,” Scharfenberg continued.

On really cool aspect of the Fuelab design, is that they can be regulated with a speed control. This can reduce the amount of heat in the pump, resulting in cooler fuel and a happier engine. The speed control can be adjusted in a number of ways to give installers lots of flexibility.

During the PRI show, they were displaying their new high pressure pumps for the Power Stroke engines as well as their low pressure pumps for the common rail engines. They have really expanded their product line over the last two years to cover just about every late model offering.

We were a little surprised to hear that they have single pumps supporting 1400 horsepower. According to Scharfenberg, some of their pumps can flow up to 200 gallons per hour at the working pressure they are rated for. That’s a ton of power!

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