The SFDL-100 is a portable instrument offering a multi-channel systems’ flaw detector in a lightweight package. The SFDL-100 uses the same high quality ultrasonic and data capture electronics as the SFD-100 with up to 8 fully independent channels. Choose from a range of preconfigured workspaces for common applications, or we can design a custom workspace for your requirements. The SFDL-100 can also interface to a wide range of hardware, offering digital and analogue inputs and outputs.

Flexible

The SFD-100 range of ultrasonic instrumentation can be moulded to your inspection requirements, capable of producing A-scan, B-scan, C-scan and strip chart information. It uses Sonatest’ bespoke powerful data capture and high performance multi-channel pulser-receiver hardware for mixed pulse-echo, through-transmission inspections.

The user interface can be designed by our systems integrators to contain as much or as little information as your operators desire. Custom  workspace’s can be created in partnership with you to suit your workflow requirements. Controls and displays can be grouped together on pages of your design offering complete flexibility to meet the needs of a wide variety of inspections. If your intention is to use the instrument for several different inspections, the SFD-100 software allows a workspace to be created for each application, tailored to your needs. Utilising Inspection Ware, produced by Utex Scientific, our innovative instrument can directly drive a wide range of motion control hardware making it ideally suited for upgrading existing scanning equipment as well as for commissioning new systems. SFD-100 is available in two packages: a small compact lunchbox PC that can easily be transported around site; and an industrial rack-mount instrument for control and monitoring within a production plant. The latter can be highly customised to suit existing control gear, sensors and probes that you already own; the perfect solution for refits, upgrades, and new installations.

Data is digitised with amplitude resolution of 12 bits, sampled at rates of up to 100MHz with over-sampling up to 400MHz available. Our multiplexed systems are capable of operating at a PRF (Pulse Repetition Frequency) of up to 100kHz. This extraordinary pulsing rate enables your parts to be inspected using the SFD-100 at higher speeds and with greater resolution whilst ensuring reliable defect detection at all times.

Seamless

Key to the integration of any ultrasonic inspection instrument is the range of interfaces available for connection with control and measurement equipment such as PLCs, proximity sensors, encoders, temperature sensors etc. The SFD-100 encompasses a range of digital and analogue input/output ports, 6 simultaneous encoder inputs, high current switched outputs and a 4-20mA current loop output.

The SFD-100 is more than just a measurement instrument; combining ultrasonic testing with automation it can control your inspection facility. With powerful motor control capabilities your scanning system can be integral to your custom workspace. For the standardised testing of parts, scans can be started with the press of a button, inspection results viewed and printed, and report generation can be automated. Documents and inspection results can be saved to your network drives and printers. As you would expect, you can design your reports specifically to your needs and include as little or as much information as you require. Your inspection software can be presented in all European and most world languages.

Powerful

The SFD-100 instrument features 400V pulsers and sensitive receive amplifiers with selective filters for the optimum defect detection. The instrument is available with 1,2, 4, 8 or 16 channels. Unlike many multiplexed ultrasound systems, the SFD-100 offers truly independent configurations per cycle. All A-scan, TCG (Time Corrected Gain) and gate parameters can be entirely separate for each cycle, allowing for a wide range of different transducers and inspection types to be performed simultaneously using the single instrument. The SFD-100 has up to 6 measurement gates, with interface triggered TCG having its own dedicated gate. Gates can be used for defect detection as well as being used to make measurements from the A-scan data. Powerful DSP (Digital Signal Processing) engines in the hardware and software allow complex calculations, decision trees and hierarchies to be constructed so that alarms, actuators, motors etc. can all be controlled based on real-time inspection results. The modular design of the hardware allows for additional channels and functionality to be added, suited to your individual requirements.

Fast

Our dedicated data capture hardware ensures the very best scanning performance, capable of the highest ultrasonic repetition rates. Data can be captured in free running mode or synchronised to encoder position, ensuring only the information you want is recorded. All A-scan gating and rectification is performed digitally in dedicated FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) hardware allowing fast multichannel C-scan and strip-chart capture. Data is automatically selected to provide the operator with maximum peak echoes (or minimum peak for back-wall) to ensure defects are never missed due to the high speed repetition rates.

Tough

All of Sonatest products are designed with the highest quality electronics, and the SFD-100 is no exception. Designed to fit standard industrial rack systems, your SFD-100 can be commissioned with power filtering, protection and with battery backup for brown-outs or power cuts. Air conditioning and filtration units can be fitted to rack enclosures for operation in extreme climates or dusty environments.

Our novel noise filtering algorithms protect the instrument from electrical machine noise, preventing false gate triggers. Coupled with our maximum echo algorithm, we ensure excellent defect detection and the best possible rejection of unwanted noise. The SFD-100 encoder inputs are all auto-sensing differential as standard, providing the best quality position data. The SFD-100 instrument is the complete, robust instrument, designed to meet the most demanding of testing requirements.