WAVELENGTH MATTERS BLOG
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Accurate’?
It seems like every pyrometer manufacturer claims to be "accurate" and with each new model that is released, the big selling point is "improved accuracy" or "ensures accuracy." Well, I'm sure if you did a comparison test where you aimed different brands of pyrometers...
The 6 Infrared Pyrometer Technologies
Pyrometers, or infrared temperature sensors, have been around for quite some time now and as you can imagine come in all different types and varieties. Many of them have different temperature spans, different optics, different designs, features, etc. There are...
Top 3 Steel Temperature Measurement Interferences
The steel making process is one of the harshest industrial environments, one that is far from an ideal laboratory setting. Making an accurate temperature measurement contending with all of these different operating conditions and interferences can certainly be...
6 Questions We Ask to Determine the Best Pyrometer for Your Application
Whenever we get a new request to help a customer with a new application, we often run through a series of questions to help them determine the best (most suitable) pyrometer for their application. These questions aren’t just picked at random, as they each have a...
Combustion Efficiency Flare Monitor vs. Opacity Monitor
Combustion Efficiency and the Flare Monitor Output: The Williamson model FM Flare Monitor is used to control the combustion efficiency of a flare flame and to prevent smoking conditions from occurring. It provides an output signal over a scale of 0 to 2000. When the...
3 Quick Tips for Proper Pyrometer Maintenance
We get a lot of questions here at Williamson about pyrometers reporting different temperature values than they did the day before. While a different temperature value could be the result of a number of different factors, there are 3 basic troubleshooting steps that...