Our capabilities allow us to engineer and manufacture custom thermistor probe solutions to meet your specifications by combining a thermistor component, probe housing, lead configuration, and connector where a surface, air, gas, or liquid temperature sensor probe is required.
We can engineer probes specifically for your requirements, thus ensuring design challenges are overcome, your probe will be cost-effective in high volumes, and you will have customer-specific revision control. Here are some examples of customization we have done recently:
- Customer-specific connectors: Fabricate 400 Series Patient Temperature Probes with customer-specific connectors to meet instrument requirements. Modifications may range from color coded backshells to shielded cables and custom connector systems.
- Radio Frequency Interference (RFI): Specially design a disposable probe to minimize susceptibility to RFI and EMI for a pediatric/neonatal application in order to meet CE/MDD requirements.
- High stability probe: Special design of a glass encapsulated thermistor sensor in a stainless steel housing used in conjunction with the high accuracy 4610 thermometer system for field calibration of blood analyzing machines.
- Sensor in a hex head cap screw: This application uses an epoxy-encapsulated thermistor potted into a #8-32 x .250" hex head cap screw. This probe is given the full range of tests per MIL-PRF-23648 over a temperature range of -65 to +125C. It is the most severely tested part we manufacture; we have built it for seven years. It is used in an unmanned space application where long-term reliability is critical.
- Infrared Sensor: The IR sensor modules are generally customized for any application. For the remote temperature measurement of a specific object, the optics and the calibration need to be adjusted to object-size, object-material as well as distance to the sensor. Multi-pixel instead of single-pixel solutions could give additional information about the object's movement, direction, and speed. It is typical for OEM customers to need dedicated PCB layouts and to have specific requirements for the digital interface.
- Sensor in a small surface probe: This application uses an epoxy-encapsulated thermistor potted into a small surface sensor package (MEAS 082 style) with twisted pair leads to monitor the temperature in electronics units on the ISS. This probe is given the full range of tests per MIL-PRF-23648 over a temperature range of -65 to +125C. We have built hundreds of these probes for the same customer since 1997.
- Sensor in a threaded stainless steel tube: This application uses a small bead-in-glass thermistor potted in a spring-loaded, steel tube, threaded housing. This part is tested to portions of MIL-PRF-23648 per customer specifications. We have been supplying this part in several configurations to the same customer since 2000.
- Sensor in a Stainless Steel Tube: This application uses a 55000 Series glass encapsulated thermistor mounted in a rolled-end stainless steel tube and is being used to measure the temperature in a bore hole 10,000 feet into the earth’s crust at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, 35,000 feet deep under the Pacific Ocean. Since service calls are difficult to schedule, obviously reliability and accuracy are critical.
- Redundant sensors in a precision machined brass housing: This application uses dual 0.1°C interchangeable glass encapsulated sensors in a brass housing to provide failure proof monitoring and control of super computer micro-processor temperatures. The hermetic seal of the sensor provides years of stable control of the temperature in this critical application.
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