July 2009Analytical Instrumentation & Environmental Monitoring
VEGA has released the next generation of its plug in concepts (plics), which has been simplifying the world of measurement technology since 2003.
Plicsplus allows for new measuring principles, new designs for devices, higher performance hardware and software, further simplification of the set-up process and better options for diagnostics, service and maintenance.
Underpinning the new developments are ongoing simplification and standardisation for the user, with VEGA giving absolute priority to all-round operational compatibility of existing and new instruments.
Kicking off the new plicsplus generation of instruments are the VEGApuls radar sensors. Their ongoing development is based on in-depth market analysis which showed up a variety of developments in liquid and bulk applications, as well as a universal call from users for easy connection, easy set-up and operation.
For liquid applications the trend is towards increasingly smaller sized containers with shorter fill and empty cycles. Conversely, the measuring ranges for bulk solids applications are becoming even bigger, and sensors need to respond to varying amounts of build up on the container wall and to increasingly faster level changes. VEGA’s new, fast microprocessors have these requirements covered, as they provide more computer power for signal analysis and facilitate complex evaluation algorithms.
Other features of the new hardware are better echo signal resolution, improved separation of useful and false reflections and greater accuracy in echo analysis. By extending the temperature range to 450°C and introducing double process sealing and greater chemical resistance of the antennae, this new generation of radar sensors has a considerably broader range of application than its predecessors.
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