Topic: Electronic monitoring?
Does anyone know of any kind of device that can be used to automatically check for nickel, nickel chloride, and boric acid levels in a nickel plating tank? Something sort of like a pH probe. Thank you.
Re: Electronic monitoring?
I've looked into this sort of thing in the past. About the only I could come up with was an Autotitrator with an autosampler that took samples from the bath. The titrator would then communicate with a PLC or some other sort of relay logic to trigger a dosing pump. The process would repeat at a certain time interval. Unfortunately, the cost was very prohibitive in my case. I estimated the complete setup to cost somewhere close to US$100,000.00.
And that was just for 1 parameter. Plus, you still have to calibrate the unit every so often.
-Dustin Gebhardt,
CEF
Plating Engineer
Danaher Tool Group
Gastonia, NC
CEF
Plating Engineer
Danaher Tool Group
Gastonia, NC
Re: Electronic monitoring?
Wow! What was the parameter you were looking at? That is quite the investment for checking just one thing. Thanks for the help.
Re: Electronic monitoring?
I was looking for chloride (nickel chloride) and nickel metal for my nickel and tin/nickel baths. I was also looking for tin for my tin/nickel topcoat.
The auto titrator was around 30k, I believe. Then you add the autosampler, plus dosing pump and logic. And then you have installation and perhaps some engineering with that. I figured that it would be close to 100k by the time it was all said and done.
-Dustin Gebhardt,
CEF
Plating Engineer
Danaher Tool Group
Gastonia, NC
CEF
Plating Engineer
Danaher Tool Group
Gastonia, NC
