Now you don’t have to wonder or wait to find out if the right amount of argon or krypton is in your insulating glass. With the direct measurement technology in the new ThermalCHECK system, you can know immediately after fabrication.
From Integrated Automation Systems, the developer of the innovative OptiGas gas filling and thermal verification system, ThermalCHECK is an affordable and compact system that first mixes and then directly measures the gas content in IG air spaces.
“ThermalCHECK does not estimate or interpolate and you don’t have to wait a day for the gas to settle to get an accurate reading,” says Integrated Automation Systems President Mike McHugh. “It is incredibly simple to use and the technology has been tested to be accurate to one-half percent.”
ThermalCHECK arrives just as there is increasing scrutiny on what is really in insulting glass with the Department of Energy’s Energy Star program. The system is being unveiled at GlassBuild America September 12-14 in Las Vegas. It will be on display in the booths of development and marketing partners FeneTech and Praxair.
An operator inserts the testing wand into the airspace and presses the test button. ThermalCHECK displays the percent of argon or krypton and prints a label with reading. If the gas content fails below the specified setting, the system displays an alert.
“It’s a compact, accurate, reliable and affordable way to stop wondering and start knowing what your IG contains,” McHugh says. “And because you can test immediately, you can catch misfills before they affect a shift or more of production.”
Integrated Automation Systems developed the award winning and patent-pending OptiGas 500 insulating glass gas-filling and thermal verification system. OptiGas can fill units with any mix of argon, krypton or both and provides a statistical process control system for verifying the thermal performance of IG batches.
McHugh has been writing and speaking extensively on how fabricators can make affordable R-5 windows through their choices in coatings, air space width and gas mixtures made possible through intelligent filling systems like OptiGas.
The company has also announced it has under development for release later this fall a system call FastGas, which can fill most air spaces with argon in 20 seconds or less.
For more information on ThermalCHECK, OptiGas and FastGas, contact Mike McHugh at 330-954-3070 or mike@optigas.com. You can find additional information online at www.optigas.com.