One of the best tools we have for Cabinet Cooler calculations is the Cabinet Cooler Sizing Guide (CCSG). For any given application, this guide (when completed and sent to an EXAIR Application Engineer) provides the necessary details to calculate heat load.
Sometimes, though, we receive these guides for applications better suited to another product. For example, earlier in the week I received a CCSG for an application needing to keep a motor cool. The motor is operating outside of the desired temperature range and needs to be cooled down. A Cabinet Cooler can provide very cold air. So, it seems like a perfect fit. But, a Cabinet Cooler has to be mounted and installed on a sealed enclosure. In an application like this, the Cabinet Cooler will serve little to no purpose.
An Air Amplifier, however, is the perfect fit. The desired operating temperature of the motor is above ambient, which is a requirement for an Air Amplifier. It can move enormous amounts of air, but cannot cool the air below ambient temperature. So, Air Amplifiers have been recommended and are slated for installation. Another success story on the horizon.
If you have an application which is in need of assistance, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Lee Evans
Application Engineer
leeevans@exair.com
@EXAIR_LE
Month: January 2013
A “Static Season”-al Affective Disorder Blog
One of the more popular inquiries we get this time of year is for Static Eliminator Product selection assistance. EXAIR offers a variety of Static Eliminators, to accommodate a wide range of applications.
Static charge can be caused by contact or friction between non-conductive surfaces…and you don’t need a lot of contact, or motion, to produce a decent charge. We keep some clear plastic Lexan plates in our Efficiency Lab, and can get a few hundred volts just by putting one on top of the other, and picking it up. To generate several thousand volts (or more), we’ll rub a plate on the carpet for a few seconds.
This makes for a great all-purpose set up – from here, we can easily and effective demonstrate any of our Static Eliminators (or do an Efficiency Lab test on anyone else’s…just so you know). Not every situation or application involving static dissipation presents itself that simply, though. That’s where the diversity of our Ionizer Products line comes in:
Are you getting zapped by packages coming fresh off your shrink wrapper? Do you need to remove dust from – and keep it off of – parts prior to painting? Are your rolls of fiber, web, paper, film, etc., jamming or mis-feeding? EXAIR Super Ion Air Knives could be the efficient, quiet solution you’re looking for. They produce a high volume, extremely adjustable, laminar curtain of ionized air flow, perfect for large surface area and/or high speed applications. They’re available in lengths from 3” to 96”. If space is tight, our Standard Ion Air Knives, while not quite as efficient or quiet, do provide a smaller profile “footprint,” and are just as effective and fast in eliminating static.
Perhaps your application is smaller, and you need a tighter, focused stream of ionized air. The Ion Air Jet is compact, easy to install (even easier with a Stay Set Hose and Mag Base), and just the right size for table or counter top situations. If this is your size & scale, but you want the convenience and flexibility of a hand-held device, our Ion Air Gun is just the thing.
For jobs that are a bit larger, but still with a need for a compact installation, the Ion Air Cannon provides a high volume, but still concentrated, flow of ionized air. It’s effective over long distances, and very efficient, using a small amount of compressed air to entrain “free” air from the surrounding environment at a rate of 25:1. In dusty or dirty areas, you can even duct clean air in from elsewhere, so you’re not impinging that dust or dirt on your parts’ surfaces.
To remove static from a continuous run of cable, hose, extruded shapes, etc., the Super Ion Air Wipe comes with a 2” or 4” ID. Its split design makes for quick and easy installation, and means you’ll never have to “thread” it if product feed is changed or interrupted.
No compressed air? No problem. If you can mount it within 2” of the part, the Ionizing Point can dissipate up to 5 kilovolts of static charge in under a third of a second. For wider surfaces, our Ionizing Bars offer the same rapid performance, and can be provided in lengths of up to 120”.
All of our Static Eliminators are shockless, UL Listed, low maintenance, and available for same day shipment…except for a couple of our longer Super Ion Air Knives, which we need a day or so to put together.
If you have questions about which Static Eliminator is right for you, give us a call. We’re eager to help!
Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
EXAIR Corporation
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How Fast is your Chip Trapper?
This question came up to me the other day from a customer in the automotive component industry in Monterrey, Mexico. He was interested in a “sump sucker” type of cleaner for his coolant. But he had one stipulation; he wanted to clean his coolant “on the fly” so to speak so he did not have to turn off his CNC equipment to facilitate the cleaning process.
His original inquiry involved a simultaneous in/out function of the coolant being processed through. We could not accommodate him with a machine that was quite in this nature. However, we do have a product that is the next best thing. Basically, as quickly as the coolant is sucked into the barrel of a Chip Trapper, it is being filtered and is immediately ready to be dispensed back into the machining center sump tank. There is one big benefit in doing it this way. That is the user can pull in all chips that accumulate in the fluid at one time to insure a cleaner end product when the coolant is pumped back into the tank. The other way, would involve recycling a lot of coolant that has already gone through the filtering process and so you end up wasting time re-filtering coolant that has already been processed once. If you have a product like Chip Trapper which is available in sizes to hold up to 110 gallons, you can suck all of the coolant out of the machine in less than 5 minutes so it can be filtered and put right back into the sump. The whole process could take place in as little as 10 minutes depending on how much cleaning in the sump area the customer prefers to do.
That means that a coolant tank could be emptied and re-filled again in as little time as it takes for an operator to go on break or to go to lunch. If you are pressed for time to get in and do coolant maintenance on a regular basis, then perhaps the Chip Trapper would be the answer to your maintenance and up-time concerns.
Neal Raker, Application Engineer
nealraker@exair.com
I Love My Job
As I approach the ripe old age of 65, I am inundated with junk mail from just about every insurance company advising me that I need to act now or miss open enrollment and that I should go with them because they are the best for less. Excuse me! Who said anything about retiring. I like my job, I like the people I work with, and being a greeter at the local Wal-Mart does not interest me.
Of all the companies that I have worked for over my 45 year career, EXAIR hands down is the best. How do they come by that distinction? Outstanding attention to the needs of both the external and internal customer. We all know who the external customer is, but have you considered your fellow workers as a customer? When John or Mary come to you they are needing a solution to a problem much the same as the external customer. How well you serve them will determine their loayaty…much the same as the external customer. We all work together here serving each other and in the end being able to serve the external customer better.
EXAIR employees work hard together and play hard together. We enjoy getting together outdoors and indoors. Throughout the year we have events planned by the employees and sponsored by the company. So why would I want to leave all that to be a greater at Wal-Mart. Sorry Medicare, I will pass on this one.
Since I enjoy my job so much, I truly would appreciate helping you with your pneumatic application. Call me 1-800-903-9247
Joe Panfalone
Application Engineer
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