High-Temperature Insulated Wire Thermocouples

Vulcan Electric offers a complete selection of products to meet your varied manufacturing needs.

• We design and manufacture new profile thermocouples for both original equipment manufacturers and end-users.
• Diffusion control spikes. A complete line of new spikes or let us rebuild your old ones.
• EPI furnace profile thermocouples. All varieties, calibrations, and new designs for special applications.
• Profile thermocouples used in wave soldering technology.
• Thermocouples for surface mount technologies.
• Unique proprietary design thermocouples with a measuring junction of .001″ for mounting under integrated circuit package legs for fine pitch devices and tape integrated bonding.
• A .01″ diameter thermocouple with the measuring elements contained inside. Can be bent like an ordinary wire of the same size and easily soldered to a surface.
• Our patented Sensor-Lock^TM adjustable depth thermocouple.
• We supply all types of thermocouple interconnection cables, individual plugs and connectors, wires, and ceramics as well as all sizes of quartz tubes that we cut and close on the premises.

New – Analog 2-Wire Head And Railmount Transmitters

If you need a high accuracy 2-wire transmitter at a price you can live with, these advanced, easy-to-use transmitters are available in three different models and accept MilliVolt, POOO, and Thermocouple (Types J, K, and T) inputs. They offer -O.1% accuracies at some of the lowest prices in the industry. The BMN-53 is a fully-scalable head-mount transmitter that is fully-adjustable via solder link and precision 20-turn. potentiometers from O-C/O-F to the full limit of the sensor. The BMN-57 is a factory-scaled, fixed-range transmitter with a unique difference. It is field scalable up to 100% of the factory-set range. (i.e. a 0 – to 100-C unit can be field-scaled anywhere between 0- to 100-C/0- to 200-F, 0- to 200-C/0- to 400-F). The Zero is also adjustable from -25- to +25-C/-10 to 70-F. The BMN-49 is a fully-scalable rail-mount transmitter that offers maximum flexibility. It also offers you the capability to shift the Zero point so your range doesn’t have to start at O-C/O-F. (For RTDs you can shift the Zero between -50- and 350-C/-50-C and 650-F. For Thermocouples you can shift the Zero between -50- and 400-C/O-C and 750-F.)

What is a Transmitter?

Basically, a transmitter is a signal conditioner. It accepts a low-level signal from a sensor, a millivolt signal from a thermocouple, or a resistance signal from an RTD (Pt100), and provides an output signal that is directly proportional to the input signal. Most transmitters provide a current output signal (generally 4-20 mA or 0-20 mA signal) rather than a voltage output. Conversion to a current signal virtually eliminates any interference from line noise and allows accurate transmission over relatively long distances using ordinary uncompensated copper wire. The use of expensive thermocouple wire or extension wire is no longer necessary. Transmitters are available in both isolated and non-isolated versions. Isolated transmitters are used to provide galvanic separation between the sensor input and signal output. When grounded sensors are used or leakage to ground occurs with ungrounded thermocouples, isolated transmitters must be used.