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Handheld Cleaning of Parts In A Clean Room

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A few years ago, we released a handheld ionizer like no ionizer EXAIR has made before. The Intellistat Ion Air Gun was the first EXAIR product to carry a Clean room certification. The certification is for any rated Class 5 clean room and controlled environments per ISO 14644-1. This wasn’t the only revolutionary part of the Intellistat Ion Air Gun, it also used a 24VDC power transformer and had indicator lights to showcase proper operation or a malfunction. Most importantly of all, it can leave a balance of +/- 30 V.

Along with these functional benefits, we wanted the gun to be ergonomic and that includes a lightweight trigger pull along with an easy to use hook which permits users to easily store the gun when not in use. The entire ergonomic housing is of static-resistant polycarbonate while the replaceable emitter point is constructed of stainless steel. All of this leads to performance that speaks for the amount of design that went into this gun.

As shown in the table above, when utilizing the gun at 30 psig inlet pressure, it will only consume 2.7 SCFM all while still providing static-eliminating blowoff that will knock down a static charge on surfaces that the ionized air stream touches. 30 psig would be ideal for lightweight debris at inspection or packaging workstations where operators need to provide a final blowoff and remediation of static before the final seal of the package. If more force is needed, the unit can be operated all the way up to 125 psig inlet pressure. The Force/Discharge table below showcases that you can get up to .1 pounds of force out of the engineered nozzle on the Intellistat and that will dissipate a +/-1,000 V static charge to less than +/- 100 V charge within 0.6 seconds.

Being able to vary the amount of force with the operating pressure is nothing new to EXAIR compressed air products; this is one of the key benefits to the versatility of this gun. Being able to move it from a final inspection/packaging station that doesn’t require a lot of static removal or debris blowoff and then also being able to get into a production/assembly area where more force and static dissipation are needed, and you can utilize the same static eliminating gun at both.

If you want to discuss how the Intellistat Ion Air Gun can fill the need your static-ridden process has for blowoff and remediation, please contact an Application Engineer today.

Brian Farno, MBA – CCASS Application Engineer

BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

How Much Force Does It Take?

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In case you weren’t aware, the answer to “How much force does it take?” is always going to be, ALL OF IT.   At least that is what we generally think when trying to blow product off a conveyor belt or diverting parts into bin, etc. Speed and efficiency play a direct role in to what nozzle or blow off device you should use in order to get the job done and be able to repeat the process.

The question we are often asked by customers is, “How much force to I need to move this?”  That is a question that we cannot often answer without asking more questions.  The good part of this is, there is a formula to calculate just how much force you need to move an object.   A good video explaining friction is shown below.

In order to answer the question of how much force do I need, we really need to know all of the following:

Weight of the object
Distance from target
Is it on an incline or level
Distance needed to move
Then, the usually unknown variable, the coefficient of friction between the target and what it is sitting on.

Often times it is the thought process of, my target weighs 5 pounds, I need 5 pounds of force in order to move it from the center of this conveyor belt to the edge, this is not the case.   If you wanted to lift the object over a break between two conveyors then you would need slightly more than 5 pounds in order to ensure you are lifting the front edge of the unit high enough to meet the other conveyor.

Whether you know all of the variables or only a few, if you need to get an object moved and you want to try using compressed air to do so, give us a call and we will help you find the best engineered solution for your application.  Then, we’ll back all stock products with a 30 day guarantee if you don’t like how the system performs – but rest assured, we get it right almost every time.

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Brian Farno
Application Engineer Manager
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF