I got a new cell phone a few months ago. It was my first ‘upgrade’ in quite some time, and while it has some neat features (along with a bunch of stuff I’ll NEVER use), there was one glaring omission: a 1/8″ port for the cord of my trusty earbuds. I even took the protective case off, looking for it. After just barely managing to get the case back on, I bought myself my first ever wireless earbuds. After scanning the ‘quick reference’ guide, I steeled my reserve for the long & arduous process of getting them up and running. To my pleasant surprise, they were fully charged, and, right out of the case, started pairing with my new cell phone. I was drowning out the sound of my lawnmower to 1970s Heavy Metal in no time!
You know what else is ready to go, right out of the box? EXAIR’s Adjustable Spot Cooler System, that’s what. OK; it doesn’t automatically connect itself to your compressed air system, but once you hook an air hose up to it, it makes a flow of cold air instantly. With the Temperature Control Valve, you can change the cold air flow and temperature just as instantly. If the 25 SCFM Generator that comes installed doesn’t make enough flow – or if it makes too much – the Adjustable Spot Cooler System comes with two more Generators (15 SCFM and 30 SCFM) that’ll put it into a whole new performance band.
The Adjustable Spot Cooler incorporates a vortex tube to convert an ordinary supply of compressed air (1) into two low pressure streams, one hot and one cold. With the turn of a knob, the temperature control valve (2) allows some hot air to flow through a muffling sleeve and out the hot air exhaust (3). The opposite end provides a cold airstream (4) that is muffled and discharged through the flexible hose, which directs it to the point of use. The swivel magnetic base (5) provides easy mounting and portability.
I was excited to hear that the Adjustable Spot Coolers were the focus of our latest Press Release. With their ease of installation and operation, they’re ideal for a wide variety of applications:
Adjusting thermostats
Cooling solder
Setting hot melts
Cooling welding horns, machined or molded plastics, gas samples, etc.
Your choice of a system with a one outlet, or two outlet Cold Air Hose.
If you need a blast of cold air that can be precisely controlled, right at the source, look no further than the Adjustable Spot Cooler. If you have an application you’d like to discuss, give me a call.
Russ Bowman, CCASS
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Here at EXAIR we’re constantly looking to provide better tools for our customers. Lately, Augmented Reality has been increasingly common in a variety of industries and applications. By creating our very own Mobile Application, EXAIR products can now be viewed directly in your space without having to purchase anything! The EXAIR AR app is available for download now on both the Apple iOS and Google Play stores.
The mobile app is EXAIR’s next step towards offering the most advanced level of value to our customers. EXAIR AR allows you to select a product from the menus and place that product directly into the space you’re working in.
For some products, such as Atomizing Nozzles, Static Eliminators, and Air Knives, an animation is available to display the pattern and coverage you’ll achieve with that liquid/airflow:
The positioning and orientation of the product is easily controlled via the simple-to-use X, Y, and Z sliders available under the “transform” button. The vertical bar on the right-hand side then adjusts the height that the model will be placed from the scanned surface.
In addition to providing a model of our products, there’s also a handy calculator tool that can be used for the conversion of a variety of different units of measure. Check back often for updated features and, of course, feel free to get in contact with an Application Engineer if there’s anything we can do to help improve the results in any of your processes.
At EXAIR, when something notable happens, our Marketing folks like to make a big splash for our customers with a Press Release. The latest one is all about one of the latest additions to our Static Eliminators Product Line: the Varistat Benchtop Ionizer.
It’s our first air blowing product that’s NOT compressed air operated. We do still take pride in being THE industry experts for quiet, safe, and efficient compressed air products, but with a couple of decades worth of expertise in static elimination, the Varistat rounds out our comprehensive line of Static Eliminators.
It’s also our first Static Eliminator with the ability to balance the polarity of ionization of the air flow. That means you can get more positive ions (and fewer negative ions), or more negative ions (and fewer positive ions). This is done by pressing the “+” or “-” polarity buttons on the top:
Blue lights to either side indicate the relative concentration of positive or negative ions generated. If none of the blue lights are lit (the green light simply indicates the unit is on), then a high concentration of both positive and negative ions is being generated.
If you’re a registered user on our website, you likely got word of this already through our August 15, 2023 Press Release. If not – or even if you did and want some more details – read on, and I’ll tell you all about it.
Like all of our previous catalogs, Catalog #35 provides specification, dimensional, and performance data on all of our stock products. Many of them include detailed descriptions of “textbook” applications for those products. You’ll also find:
Efficiency Lab (page 6): If you want a full performance report on a compressed air device you’re using right now, this is a free service we offer. Contact an Application Engineer and arrange to have it sent in. We’ll test it for compressed air consumption, force applied, and sound level, and send you a report on it. It’ll include, of course, the EXAIR engineered product(s) that we’ll recommend, along with performance data on them, as a comparison.
Our Six Steps (page 7): The first page of our Optimization section details the Six Steps To Optimizing Your Compressed Air System. It’s not necessary to follow them in order, and not all of them are applicable to every single compressed air system. But if you’re serious about reducing your compressed air costs, this is a comprehensive plan on how to do it for sure.
OSHA Maximum Allowable Noise Exposure table & typical Air Consumption values of common “homemade” blow offs (page 53): We put this here so you can turn the next few pages and see what a difference engineered products like EXAIR Super Air Nozzles can make.
Droplet Size data (page 98): Use this to determine the suitability of our Atomizing Spray Nozzles for liquid spraying applications.
Vortex Tube Specification and Performance tables (pages 201-202): If you know how much cold air flow you need, and at what temperature you need it, you can use these tables to determine which EXAIR Vortex Tube (or other Spot Cooling Product) to use.
Cabinet Cooler System Sizing Guide (page 220): Just fill in the blanks & send this in, and we’ll quickly & accurately calculate the heat load of your electrical/electronic enclosure, and specify the right Cabinet Cooler System for you.
Now, if you’ve ever had any of our previous catalogs, you might have noticed that those were already in there, and that’s all pretty great. What’s REALLY great about Catalog #35, though, is some of the new features:
Line Vac Conveyance Data (pages 176-177): While there’s WAY too many variables in bulk conveyance applications to accurately calculate conveyance rates. We’ve done some controlled, in-house testing with several different materials, several different Line Vacs, at several different lengths & heights, though, and we’re proud to publish that in the new catalog. This shouldn’t be considered a guarantee of performance, but if you’re wondering how much of a particular bulk material you can convey, this table will certainly get you in the right ballpark.
Best Practice for Using EXAIR Intelligent Compressed Air Products (pages 239-240): This information has always been in the Air Data files on our website, along with an ABUNDANCE of data that’ll help you get the most out of your compressed air system. Now, it’s at your fingers.
Of course, I’d be remiss if I wrote a whole blog on the new catalog without mentioning the new products:
Model 9207 Ultrasonic Leak Detector (pages 18-19): This serves the same function as the now-obsolete Model 9061, but with some handy upgrades like a LED display, a sleek new body, and high quality ear buds.
Use the Model 9207 Ultrasonic Leak Detector’s parabola to find the vicinity of the leak, and the tubular extension to identify its exact location.
1/2 NPT HollowStream Cone Atomizing Nozzles (page 105): With five new distinct models at the high-flow end of our already comprehensive line of Liquid Atomizing Spray Nozzles, these provide up to 53 gallons per minute of liquid flow, and are capable of passing particulate up to 0.344″ in diameter.
The Hollow Cone spray pattern is ideal for cooling, cleaning, foam breaking, rinsing, and dust suppression. It also uses considerably less liquid than the OmniStream models, when higher flow rate isn’t necessary.
EXAIR’s ATEX Cabinet Cooler Systems provide heat protection for electrical enclosures in potentially explosive atmospheres, like those found on offshore drilling platforms, petrochemical plants, mines, flour mills, etc.
Like our previous catalogs, Catalog 35 is now available for download (in product line sections due to file size) from the PDF Library at EXAIR.com. You can also request a copy to be mailed to you, or you can contact an Application Engineer to have individual product line sections (again, because of file size) email to you right away.
As always, if you’d like to talk about how to get the most out of your compressed air system, our team of Application Engineers are here Monday to Friday, 7am to 4pm Eastern, to help with that. Give me a call.
Russ Bowman, CCASS
Application Engineer Visit us on the Web Follow me on Twitter Like us on Facebook
