With the introduction of the new Spectrotest in the new year, Spectro plans to make the mobile arc/spark metal analyser into the most successful industrial spectrometer on the market. The new Spectrotest is a robust and simultaneously lightweight, high-tech instrument, which can be used as a universal industrial spectrometer for all metal testing applications: analysis of thin wires and samples with curved surfaces like cable or pipe, metal sorting at the shipping dock or identification of a wide range of different alloys at the scrap yard.
Spectrotest’s new ICAL (Intelligent Calibration Logic) software monitors and controls the state of the instrument independent from external influences. This eliminates the time-consuming recalibration of the spectrometer. For change in location and temperature fluctuations, it is sufficient to measure a single control sample, which gives the user the benefit of significantly increased instrument uptime at the lowest operating costs.
The system offers the same advantages for measuring changing alloys: conventional industrial spectrometers sometimes require up to five samples and a corresponding number of individual measurements before the metal analyser is set up for a new alloy group, the optimum measurement program is loaded, and the most suitable excitation parameters are set. With the new function “APF Plus” (Automatic Program Finder) one measurement is sufficient: the system automatically recognises the matrix and loads the most suitable program.
