T&M and Monitoring

A portable analyser designed for monitoring emissions from ships is now available for sale or rent from Ashtead Technology. The Testo 350 MARITIME is a portable analyser certified for the measurement of marine diesel engine exhaust gas emissions according to MARPOL Annexe VI and NOx Technical Code 2008. It also complies with the directive on marine equipment and has the MED mark of conformity 0098/2018.

The MDA 8000HD Motor Drive Analysers launched today (October 1) by Teledyne LeCroy leverage the WaveRunner 8000HD High Definition Oscilloscope (HDO) platform of eight analogue channels, 12-bit vertical resolution at all times, up to 5 Gigapoints of acquisition memory (1.25 Gigapoints on all eight channels), 10 GS/s sample rate, and bandwidths up to 2GHz.

During a routine inspection at a substation, a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) electrician felt heat blast his face as he passed within a couple of metres of an energised transformer bank. Some heat is expected, of course, but the intensity of it alarmed him. He immediately grabbed a handheld thermal imaging camera from his van and verified that there was a major issue and the system was shut down for investigation.

Now available at Conrad Electronic are Fluke’s new MDA-510 and MDA-550 motor drive analysers. They offer accurate and fast error analysis on complex single and three phase variable speed drives, and provide the user with an effective tool to detect and correct typical errors.

A full range of more than 180 electrical testers and diagnostic equipment products from Benning have been added to Conrad Electronic’s range. In addition to electrical testers and test equipment, Benning’s broad range of products include digital handheld multimeters, digital current probes, device testers, installation testers, photovoltaic measuring instruments and a wide range of accessories.

With any unscheduled down-time being a cause of major headaches for food and drink manufacturers, John Rowley of Mitsubishi Electric highlights how predictive maintenance can provide the solution and how easy it is to implement. With food manufacturers being continually squeezed on price by retailers and asked to fulfil orders for supply that can seem, at best, challenging and at worst highly unrealistic, improving productivity is a priority. 

Ashtead Technology has added the Olympus FlexoFORM pipe elbow scanner to its rental fleet of Non Destructive Testing equipment. “This is part of a major investment in our NDT fleet,” said NDT Market Manager Steve Drake. “The FlexoFORM is an extremely important addition because it complements our other pipe inspection equipment and provides a solution for many particularly challenging applications.

Flintec have added the UXT to its well-established family of tension load cells. With OIML and NTEP approval, the UXT is certified for trade weighing applications. Capacities start at 50kg through to 7,500kg, ensuring the UXT is suitable for a vast range of industrial and medical applications.

Flintec have launched the EM100 family of digitising units for general weighing applications such as dynamic, static and high-speed weighing. The EM100 is a precision amplifier manufactured to be embedded directly into a weighing system with multiple configuration options available and plug and play compatibility.

DALI decoding and analysis has been added to the latest version of PicoScope 6 software by Pico Technology. DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) provides two-way communications between lighting fixtures (“luminaires”), ballasts and controllers.