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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
industrial 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
INDUSTRIAL 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
industrial 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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