- Store sensors upright with the membrane facing down at room temperature.
- Absolute shipping/storage temperature range is -15 to +50°C (+5 to +120 °F).
- Use FIFO inventory management to keep sensors fresh.
- Do not expose sensors to vacuum, high pressure, shock or vibration.
- Do not expose sensors to acidic or organic solvent vapors, chlorine (bleach), ozone or dust.
- Recognize that pressure, temperature, relative humidity and exposure to oxygen will all affect the useful life of galvanic oxygen sensors.
- Connectors: The customizability is fairly wide open. If you don’t have a connector we’re already using, it’s not very difficult to make something new for your unique application. The process of customizing connectors is typically a 2-3 month process
- Voltage output: This is more difficult to customize than connectors. Our ranges are around 8.5 to 17mv because we have the components available to cover this range. Anything outside of this range would include R&D time, which could be around a 6 month project.
- Response Time: We don’t have a lot of flexibility in regards to customizable response time, as Maxtec mainly specializes in 15-second response time. While we do buy/sell sensors with faster response times, we specialize in 15.
- End-of-Life Dates: We offer two different life sensors, the Max-125 series, which is 500,000 %o2 hours with a warranty of 1 year, and the max 250 and 550, which are 1.5 million %o2 hours, with a 2 year warranty. Our sensors function similar to that of a battery, where the more you use it, the shorter it lasts.
- Labeling: Labeling can get a little tricky. For customers in the industrial market, it probably wouldn’t be a problem to get custom labeling, but it’s not possible with medical services due to new regulations.
- Shape and threads: Getting customized shapes and threads is doable, but it’ll be a long process.
- For more information and to see how we can help you, contact us at [email protected]
- Do not install sensors with the sensing surface facing upwards. For optimal performance and life characteristics, sensors should always be mounted with the sensing surface pointing down or horizontal.
- Do not expose the sensor to gas sample streams outside the range +15 to +40°C (+60 to +105 °F), or relative humidity greater than 95% (non-condensing).
- Do not expose sensors to pressures outside the range 1.0 ± 0.5 atmospheres.
- Do not expose sensors to excessive shock or vibration.
- Sensors should be located away from thermal gradients (fans, heat sinks, etc).
- Associated instrumentation should be designed so that the minimum operating load on the sensor is 1MΩ.
- Do not expose sensors to voltage bias or design circuitry which could attempt to electrically charge or discharge the sensor.
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