The X-100: Features (under development)

Special features

• Productivity
  • Featuring CPLive™ networking functions !
• Innovative heating elements
  • Impervious to flux and other chemical projections
  • Robust and non-brittle (instrument can be moved without element damage)
  • Cartridge type for easy replacement
  • Can be changed individually, with minimal interruption
• Advanced furnace
  • PID temperature control to ensure stability, combined with a unique temperature calibration via molten flux
  • Fast heat-up (<15 minutes)
  • Strict use of ceramic eliminates metal contamination
• Advanced movement control
  • Movement recovery in case of stall
  • All movement axis are driven directly
  • Uses encoders as movement feedback (no sensor)
• Other
  • Industrial PLC interface (does not depend on Windows updates)
  • Requires no external supplies (no power supply box, no cooling fluids)
  • Works on 115 or 230V single-phase power (no need for 3-phase)
  • Ambient status light (red when processing, blue when completed)

Reliability

• Built with thoughtful engineering
• Heating elements impervious to flux and chemical projections
• Robust, all-ceramic platinumware holders
• Industrial-grade motors and electronics
• Shares several components with the expendable X-300 and the heavy-duty X-600

Safety

• No gases used, so no post-combustion toxic products released
• Minimal heat dissipation; only a standard vent hood is required
• Integrated, auto-locking protection shield with safety glass viewport

Accuracy

• Extra-precise temperature control achieved by PID temperature control, combined with a unique temperature calibration via molten flux
• Entirely automated, cold-to-cold
• Fully reproducible fusion methods
• Outstanding reproducibility: the crucible and mold are at the same temperature
• Real-time temperature display
• Optimum pouring conditions, since the mold is in the furnace with the crucible

Versatility

• Makes glass disks for XRF
• Can also make solutions (including peroxide or pyrosulfate fusions without modification)
  • Optional variable-speed embedded solutions stirrer available
  • Prepares one sample for XRF or one solution for ICP
  • Switching from disk to solution mode is quick and easy
• Ready to fuse with built-in methods
• Can perform solid or liquid oxidations
• Fully customizable fusion methods

Simplicity

• Advanced engineering
• Easy installation
• Intuitive graphical interface with multiple languages
• Easy icon touch-screen navigation
• Virtually maintenance-free; easy component access