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Mass flow controllers
05 June 2016
Alicat Scientific has added a new line of mass flow controllers specifically for original equipment manufacture and process integration.

BASIS is the company's smallest footprint instrument, providing fast, accurate control of gas flow rates in an economical, easy-to-integrate package. It is suitable for use in OEM gas analysers, automated gas mixing on process lines, and anywhere basic mass flow-only control is required.
All BASIS units are ready to control process flows at full accuracy in just 70 ms. A 100ms control response enables BASIS to react in real time to upstream fluctuations. NIST-traceable accuracy is +/-(1.5% of the reading + 0.5% full-scale).
BASIS is available with the following multi-gas calibrations: Air, Ar, CO2, N2, O2, N2O (selectable over RS-485); He, H2 are also available in single-gas units. Dual communications – RS-485 Serial and 0-Vdc analog – mean BASIS can be built into a range of end-user products. For process applications, the availability of analogue and digital feedback allows for both PLC and PC control options.
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