alive15
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Good afternoon, I have an application where we induction harden different areas on our assembly part using coils that wrap around and heat up to high temperature, then quench to harden.
Issue: When the coils wrap around the part, the ends of the coil make contact and, to oversimplify, heats up the part. Sometimes the ends of the coil do not touch or are worn out, so the coil closes over the part, the PLC fires the output to heat, the machine thinks it heated the part (but it did not), and lets the part go for the robot to grab.
I am in search of a 24 VDC or 120 VAC non-contact infrared thermometer I can use to shine this on the coil 24/7 so I can know if the coil heated up or not. Anyone recommend any they have used? This machine runs 24 hrs 5-6 days a week, but the sensor will be on 24/7 as we don't power this machine down over the weekend.
Thanks,
Issue: When the coils wrap around the part, the ends of the coil make contact and, to oversimplify, heats up the part. Sometimes the ends of the coil do not touch or are worn out, so the coil closes over the part, the PLC fires the output to heat, the machine thinks it heated the part (but it did not), and lets the part go for the robot to grab.
I am in search of a 24 VDC or 120 VAC non-contact infrared thermometer I can use to shine this on the coil 24/7 so I can know if the coil heated up or not. Anyone recommend any they have used? This machine runs 24 hrs 5-6 days a week, but the sensor will be on 24/7 as we don't power this machine down over the weekend.
Thanks,