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Sensor catalog - 7347 GeneralInformation

Lab Services

Customized Testing to Your Application
General Information

Product Development and Prototype Test Lab

Watlow can provide testing duringall phases of product development.To guarantee Watlow temperaturesensors retain their quality after long term use, we maintain a variety of custom designed furnaces and baths for long term drift and cycle testing at temperatures up to 1700°C (3090°F).We can customize any number ofstandardized tests to meet your needs:•To verify the quality and stability of our RTDs a recent test cycled the sensors from 93°C (200°F) to 260°C (500°F) for over 80,000 cycles.•During initial product develop-ment for a turbine application, the customer requested performance information on Watlow RTD probes under various conditions.Vibration testing was carried out on several diameters and probeconfigurations providing the cus- tomer with resonance frequenciesto 2000Hzand corresponding dBlevels.
Lab Services (Continued)•Vibration testing was provided for a prototype sensor mounted on the shaft bearings of a large diesel engine. Watlow productand field engineers worked with the customer to develop a vibra- tion dampening design.•Watlow engineers selected mate-rials and developed several configurations to answer a cus- tomer’s need for a 20 meter (60 ft) long sheathed sensor capable ofhandling 1400°C (2550°F). The conditions were reproduced in theproduct test lab and a successful design selected.Your Watlow sales engineer is yourkey to successful temperature moni-toring. He/she can assure that yoursensor is tested under your conditions.
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