5 Reasons to Choose WPI's Animal Temperature Controller
The ATC 2000 is a low noise heating system for maintaining animal body temperature during experimental procedures. Here are five reasons to choose the WPI Animal Temperature Controller. WPI's Adaptive control is unique in the industry, giving you precision control without the need for complex programming when it counts.
Simple to setup.
Stable control.
No local hotspots.
1. ELECTRICALLY QUIET:
The DC heater is extremely quiet in terms of electromagnetic radiation. This is essential in electrophysiological recordings which are very sensitive to electromagnetic interference.
2. PRECISE & STABLE CONTROL:
The controller uses proportional, integral, and differential (PID) technology in adjusting the DC voltage output. Compared with switched on/off type controllers, PID controllers provide a much more precise and stable control of temperature. The PID approach is also more immune to the variation of the experimental conditions such as change in animal size and unexpected disturbances.
3. OPTIONS FOR CONTROL:
The controller has three temperature sensing inputs that give you options for control.
- The resistive temperature device (RTD) probe input can be used to monitor an RTD rectal probe to control the animal temperature or to monitor ambient temperature, induction chamber temperature or any other temperature.
- When using a thermocouple probe, the thermocouple (TC) probe input can be used just like the RTD input. (TITLE: A T type thermocouple must be used.)
- The heater plate also has an internal temperature sensor. The ATC2000 monitors this sensor to prevent the localized hot spots under animal.
4. ADAPTS TO DIFFERENT SIZE ANIMALS AUTOMATICALLY:
Adaptive mode, one of three operational modes, uses the temperature of the heated plate and the temperature of the subject to automatically adjust the PID parameters, regardless of the animal’s size. This approach is less prone to overshoot, but somewhat slower than normal mode to stabilize, depending on the sampling rate used.
5. ELIMINATES LOCAL HOTSPOTS:
The plate’s internal temperature sensor prevents localized hot spots under the animal with maximum temperature stability. The Shutdown mode is a fail-safe mode used if the plate temperature ever exceeds your shutdown set point. (TITLE: By default, the shutdown set point is 37ºC.)
When you need precise temperature control for small animal surgery, you need WPI’s ATC2000.
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