July 2012: Monitor Company News

Monitor Technologies Announces Industrial Sales Company
as Representative for Washington, Oregon, Alaska

Monitor Technologies, LLC introduces Industrial Sales Company (ISC) as its new sales representative group for the states of Washington, Oregon and Alaska. ISC is a manufacturer's representative firm specializing in dry bulk material handling, conveying, feeding, screening and processing components, system fans and dust collectors. They have many years of experience in engineering and system sales for the food, mining & minerals, building materials, plastics, chemicals industries and more.

“We are pleased to add ISC to our family of representatives. Our customers are sure to benefit from ISC’s years of experience in providing solutions to a large variety of powder and bulk solids markets,” said Craig Russell, Owner / President of Monitor Technologies.

ISC has offices in the Portland, OR and Seattle, WA areas. Some other manufacturers they represent include Chicago Blower Corp., Eriez, Sweco, Thermo Fisher Ramsey, Vac-U-Max, and WM. W. Meyer Company. For more information on ISC please visit www.industrialsales.net.

About Monitor
Monitor Technologies LLC is a leading supplier of level measurement instrumentation, solids flow indicators, particle emission monitors and aeration devices for the worldwide powder and bulk solids markets. The experience and market knowledge gained over 50 years of business has earned Monitor a reputation for providing high quality and reliable product solutions backed by trusted customer service. Monitor is located in Elburn, Illinois  USA. For more information please refer to www.monitortech.com or contact Mr. Greg DeRudder or Mr. Chris Otte of Monitor Technologies at 1-800-766-6486 (1-630-365-9403).

TrueCap^® MK-2
Advanced RF Capacitance Level Probe

The TrueCap® Model MK-2 RF Capacitance point level probe is designed to provide a superior and stable sensitivity threshold making it suitable for a variety of powder / bulk solids and some liquid or slurry applications.

Advanced features of the Model MK-2 include:
> Automatic immunity to material build-up on the probe by its driven shield design
> Push-button calibration
> Enhanced temperature compensation
> Maximized reliability via smart sensing algorithms like “self-validating” fail-safe protection
> Visible status LED on ordinary location units
> Versatility through a variety of configuration options including: hazardous location version, split architecture design, quick-connect process connection, stub probe, cable extensions, solid extensions, Nylon® probes, Ryton® - equiv. probes, etc.

A practical application for the TrueCap would be to use this level sensor where a residual material build-up on a different sensor would cause a false material level indication.

Principle of Operation for the TrueCap RF Capacitance Level Probe:
The vessel wall and the active probe element establish an impedance reference between each other when exposed to air which has a dielectric constant of 1. When materials with a dielectric constant greater than 1 are in close proximity to the probe, the impedance of the sensing field between the sensor and the vessel wall will change. Once the amount of change exceeds a threshold that was electronically determined during the calibration process, an output relay will either be energized or de-energized depending upon the position of the fail-safe selector on the probe’s electronic circuit board. A change of as little as .5 pico-farad is all that is necessary for the probe to sense the presence of material.

Click here for more information on the TrueCap MK-2 Level Sensor or contact Monitor Technologies LLC at
Tel.: 800-766-6486 in the USA and
Tel.: 630-365-9403 worldwide.

>>Download TrueCap Product Bulletin #413

>>Click here to learn more about other Point Level Switches from Monitor Technologies