New Version of LaserNet Particle Analyzer Features Wide-Ranging Particle Counting and New Ferrous Monitoring Capabilities

CHELMSFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The new Version 7 of the LaserNet
200 Comprehensive Particle Analyzer Series from Spectro Scientific
provides extensive analysis of particles in lubricating and hydraulic
fluids. Compared to earlier releases, the new Series increases particle
counting range up to 10 million particles/ml without dilution, and
includes a new set of ferrous particle measurements that gives users new
insights into the progress of machine wear.

The analyzer employs the industry-leading LaserNet Fines® laser imaging
technology and dual magnetometers that characterize ferrous particles
larger than 25 microns as well as total ferrous particles. In the new V7
software, a patent pending approach enables LaserNet to report ferrous
concentration in part per millions (ppm) for ferrous particles larger
than 25 microns in diameter. Together with total ferrous content in ppm,
new measurements such as larger ferrous particle percentage and ferrous
wear severity index can be derived, providing a more simplified view of
machine wear from a single in-service oil test.

Version 7 software also enables LaserNet to double its upper particle
counting range to 10 million particles per milliliter of oil (ISO code
30). Users can now process very dirty engine and gearbox oils from heavy
equipment such as mining excavators. The laser can penetrate dark engine
oil samples containing up to two percent soot, making it the only
particle analyzer that can test engine oil without dilution.

The LaserNet 200 Series of analyzers expands to a selection of four
models with the inclusion of the new LaserNet 215 instrument that
includes particle count and ferrous monitor features. The new model
provides oil analysis laboratory managers with a quick and easy way to
monitor contamination and trend machine wear in one test, at a lower
cost than the LaserNet 230 model. Together with the automated sampling
processor (ASP), the new LaserNet 215 gives oil analysis laboratories a
competitive advantage, reducing the need for traditional and manual
ferrous particle tests.

Spectro Scientific Senior Vice President Yuegang Zhao said, “The
introduction of Version 7 of the LaserNet 200 Series demonstrates
Spectro Scientific’s commitment to continuously improving the most
advanced particle analysis technologies and will benefit our customers
greatly around the world.”

Contacts

Spectro Scientific
Sandra Schiller, 978-431-1129
[email protected]