Centimetre-thick dust deposits, frosty ice crystals, thick cobwebs – it’s not unusual for today’s measuring instruments to have to put up with such adverse environmental conditions. For example, cobwebs can impair traffic control systems and regulate the traffic down to 40 km/h, ice layers can prevent the triggering of an emergency brake at a gondola entry and enormous coal deposits can bring conveyor transfer stations to a standstill. But users want measuring instruments that work reliably even under such rough conditions.
The technology of the microwave barrier, however, detects the limit level of bulk materials and liquids safely and without contact. However microwave barriers are nothing new, they have been used for level detection in extremely harsh operating conditions for quite some time. For broader use, however, the instruments had to be revised. VEGA decided to integrate this measuring principle into the plics®plus instrument generation. The result is the microwave barrier VEGAMIP 61, which is tuned especially to the requirements and needs of applications in rough environments.
VEGAMIP 61 can be used as either maximum or minimum sensor. The microwave barrier also offers many application possibilities for level detection of liquids or object detection. This contactless measuring principle has proven to be advantageous especially for abrasive mediums, like minerals or ores, or in applications with very high temperatures. The instrument is impervious to soiling, buildup and baked-on deposits. Changing medium properties, such as density or material dampness, affect the instrument just as little as the temperature of the medium or intense dust generation.
Your benefit
• Separate instrument version enables mounting in installation positions difficult to access
• Reliable measurement even with very abrasive products
• Reliable measurement even with changing product features