What’s All This PEAK Reading Stuff About Anyhow?
Mon, 13 Feb 2012
Recently customer Eli asked the question, “Why do I have to clear the peaks on my instrument?” In fact, with full datalogging now being a dominant feature in most gas monitoring instruments, manually clearing the peak reading registers isn’t as important as it used to be. Nevertheless, why is it still a good practice to …
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The Most Frequently Asked Question
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
It has been almost three years since Industrial Scientific launched the AskDave portion of our website. In the nearly 2000 questions I have answered since the beginning, there is one that stands out by far as the most frequently asked. Why is there no oxygen sensor showing up in my M40 display?
So, just what does …
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Just another reason to bump test your gas detector….
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
For the first post of 2012, I thought that it would be appropriate once again to talk about bump testing. But this time, I am going to venture away from looking at bump testing from the point of view that the only way you know that a gas sensor will respond to gas is to test it with gas. I’ve …
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Baby it’s cold outside…
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
Cold winter temperatures have set in over most of the northern hemisphere and with them come some differences in the way your portable gas monitoring instruments function. The low temperature rating for continuous operation of most Industrial Scientific portable instruments is -20 degrees Celcius. However, they may be used at lower temperatures for intermittent periods. …
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25 Years of Gas Detection
Mon, 05 Dec 2011
This past Friday, I celebrated my 25th anniversary at Industrial Scientific. Wow! What an opportunity to sit down and reflect on how the industry has changed over the last quarter century.
In the past 25 years we have seen gas monitoring instruments change from analog based meters with limited functionality to the feature rich microcomputer …
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