The X-300: Features

Special features

• Productivity
  • Now featuring CPLive™ networking functions !
• Expandability
  • Available pre-configured as a 1, 2 or 3 position unit
  • Upgradeable by customers in their own labs
  • Adapts laboratories' changing needs
• 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
  • Dynamic Temperature Profile (DTP) to ensure uniform temperature (patent pending)
  • Individual element automatic power compensation (patent pending)
  • Fast heat-up (<15 minutes)
  • Strict use of ceramic eliminates metal contamination
• Other
  • Industrial PLC interface (does not depend on Windows updates)
  • Requires no external supplies (no power supply box, no cooling fluids)
  • Single-phase power (no need for 3-phase)
  • Tiltable interface screen for various user heights
  • Ambient status light (red when processing, blue when completed)

Reliability

• Built with the most demanding lab in mind
• Heating elements impervious to flux and chemical projections
• Robust, all-ceramic platinumware holders
• Industrial-grade motors and electronics
• Shares several components with the heavy-duty X-600

High-throughput

• Simultaneous processing of up to three (3) samples
• Can prepare glass disks (beads) for XRF, or solutions for ICP, including preparations in peroxide or pyrosulfate
• Throughput of up to 15 samples/hour
• Fast initial heat-up time of under 15 minutes
• Productivity is improved by a user-adjustable holding temperature. Therefore, the temperature between fusions can be maintained to minimize initial ramping time

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 Dynamic Temperature Profiling (DTP) and automatic individual element power compensation (patents pending).
• Entirely automated, cold-to-cold
• Fully reproducible fusion methods
• Outstanding reproducibility: all crucibles and molds are at the same temperature
• Real-time temperature display
• Optimum pouring conditions, since the molds are in the furnace with the crucibles

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 up to three (3) solutions for ICP or AA
  • Switching from disk to solution mode is quick and easy
• Ready to fuse with built-in methods for oxides, minerals, metals, alloys, sulfides, fluorides and more
• Can perform solid or liquid oxidations
• Fully customizable fusion methods

Simplicity

• An expandable, intelligent, advanced furnace
• Easy installation
• Intuitive graphical interface with multiple languages
• Easy icon touch-screen navigation
• Virtually maintenance-free; easy component access