New PurgEye Desk Weld Monitor Comes with Automatic Fault Finding Diagnostics

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The PurgEye® Desk Weld Monitor is engineered with PurgeNet™ for inline connection of accessories. It can read oxygen levels from 1,000 ppm and down to levels as low as 1ppm for an oxide free zero colour welds. The unit is suitable for measuring oxygen levels during the welding of titanium and reactive metals such platinum zirconium, Tantalum and stainless steels. The automatic fault finding diagnostics detect and report the number of possible faults. The monitor comes with LED display, sensor and an integral pump that delivers exhausting purge gas to the sensor on a consistent basis.


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Titanium Welding with the PurgEye® Desk

The Welding Institute (TWI) state that: “Titanium is a reactive metal; it will burn in pure oxygen at 600°C and in nitrogen at around 800°C. Oxygen and nitrogen will also diffuse into titanium at temperatures above 400°C raising the tensile strength but embrittling the metal. In the form of a powder or metal shavings titanium also constitutes a fire hazard. Despite this reactivity titanium is used extensively in chemical processing, offshore, automotive, medical, aerospace and numerous other applications.“

During the welding of titanium, it is therefore crucial that the oxygen level surrounding the weld is purged of oxygen down to as low as 50 ppm or less. Titanium parts are usually welded inside a welding enclosure, where the entire atmosphere surrounding the weld can be kept at a controlled level of oxygen.

The innovative PurgEye® Desk, a new monitor designed and manufactured by weld purging experts Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT®, is leading the way in inert gas purging technology by reading oxygen levels from 1,000 ppm, right down to levels as low as 1ppm (highly accurate to 10 ppm), ensuring welders achieve perfect oxide free, zero colour welds time and time again.

Ron Sewell, Chairman for HFT® said: “The PurgEye® Desk is for use with Welding Chambers and Enclosures, as well as with Orbital Welding Machines and other Automatic Welding Systems. It is ideal for measuring oxygen levels during titanium welding, as well as other reactive metals such as platinum zirconium, Tantalum and even stainless steels.”

The PurgEye® Desk is also manufactured with HFT®’s revolutionary PurgeNet™, for the in-line connection of additional accessories that allows the Weld Purge Monitor® to control welding systems based upon oxygen level as well as to provide indications of high and low oxygen levels.

The rugged, high frequency proof PurgEye® Desk has automatic fault finding diagnostics that can detect and report a number of possible faults. It also features an OLED (organic light emitting diode) display giving brighter, sharper readings at longer distances.

With a unique, fast response, long-life sensor having little maintenance requirement, the PurgEye® Desk Weld Purge Monitor® comes complete with an integral pump to deliver the exhausting purge gas to the measuring sensor on a consistent basis to allow precision control of the welding systems.

The PurgEye® Desk is particularly suitable for use in ultra clean conditions, such as in cryogenics, food and drinks, semi-conductor, aerospace, pharmaceutical sectors and other process industries.

The PurgEye® Desk video can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/BhZyXaNI4fk. Take a look at HFT®’s corporate video too at: https://youtu.be/L6mijWIK2a8.

For further information, please contact:
Michaela Reay, Marketing Associate
Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT®
+44 (0) 1554 836836
Press: michaelareay@huntingdonfusion.com
Sales: hft@huntingdonfusion.com
www.huntingdonfusion.com

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT® are Weld Purging Innovators, Designers and Manufacturers with offices located globally.

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT® invented the ‘Weld Purge Monitor®’ in 1975 and own all international intellectual property rights and registered trademarks.

Weld purging is the act of removing, from the vicinity of the joint, oxygen, water vapour and any other gases or vapours that might be harmful to a welding joint. Such gases may combine with the metal to form undesirable compounds that may reduce corrosion resistance or may be instrumental in creating cracks or other structural defects in metals.

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