New ELF radiation safety meter is ideal

The ELT-400 low-frequency radiation safety meter, designed to enable even non-technical personnel to determine whether magnetic fields from industrial equipment are within acceptable limits

Now available from Link Microtek is the ELT-400 low-frequency radiation safety meter, which has been designed to enable even non-technical personnel to determine whether magnetic fields from industrial equipment are within acceptable limits.

With the EU pressing hard for a Physical Agents Directive to cover electromagnetic fields, it is likely that plant managers and health and safety officers will soon have to address the issue of extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation from equipment such as resistance welders, induction furnaces and dielectric heaters.

The ELT-400 provides an easy means of helping employers to meet the proposed directive's requirement to assess the risk to workers.

Covering the frequency range 1Hz to 400kHz, the meter features an integrated 'shaped time domain' function that allows simple measurement of the complex waveforms commonly encountered in an industrial environment due to the presence of multiple field sources with different frequencies.

At the touch of a single key, the ELT-400 automatically evaluates all the different ELF field sources and displays the reading as a percentage of the ICNIRP international safety guideline, making the meter easy to use for health and safety professionals with little experience in ELF measurement.

If required, the field strength can also be displayed in milliTesla (mT) units as either RMS (root mean square) or peak values.

The ELT-400 is supplied complete with an isotropic probe, which measures magnetic fields regardless of their direction and can be attached to the meter either directly or via a suitable cable, depending on the requirements of the application.

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