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When Rubber Meets The Load
Manufacturers use a combination of physical and chemical processes to turn a fragile metal film into a precision heating element encased in silicone rubber.
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EHS On Our Silicone Rubber Heater Line
All employees within the Smiths Group family of companies are guided by a set of principles outlined in Smiths’ Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) policy statement.
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Design With Mica In Mind
At TUTCO-Farnam, the majority of our custom-designed heaters use mica board machined to meet the customer’s specifications.
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Scrambling An Egg
Cool Touch™ heaters is ideal for rapidly heating inline air, and the internal open coils provide efficient heat transfer through direct resistance coil contact with the airflow.
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Heater Coil Design
In the design of a custom open coil heating element, several factors need to be considered when selecting the optimum coil(s) for an application.
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Estimating The Resistance Wire Temperature For An Open Coil Heating Element
For a typical convection air heating application, the air temperature and the volumetric air flow entering the heating element, and the power produced by the element are known or can be specified.
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Surface Heaters-an Overview
In the world of heaters, surface heaters aren’t really very sexy – they often consist of little more than a few pieces of mica and some wire.
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