Customer Photos
Coltraco Ultrasonics are delighted to share the above customer photos of two units that are both over fifteen years old.
GNW Instrumentation kindly shared an image with Coltraco of an original Portagauge® ultrasonic thickness gauge.
Additionally, Petrofrac recently sent in their Portalevel® for calibration, which is still in operation, after over 15 years. Their Portalevel is used to train fire servicing teams in Aberdeen, before the teams begin working offshore in the North Sea.
Coltraco are proud to offer quality instrumentation and customer support for the lifetime of the equipment.
Portagauge®
Our ultrasonic testing equipment is accurate and reliable to BS EN 15317:2013 standard, making it ideal for ultrasonic thickness testing. At Coltraco, we strive to provide the best thickness gauges, all built in the UK to high standards, priced competitively, and with a relevant calibration certificate.
The Portagauge® 6 ultrasonic thickness gauge measures through protective coatings up to 20 mm, providing accurate and reliable thickness measurements. A scan is accurate to +/- 0.1 mm, and this perfect echo measuring principle helps measure various surfaces accurately. This helps you to determine the level of corrosion or erosion without the risk of causing further corrosion damage. It comes with built-in datalogger to store up to 200,000 thickness measurements and minimum thickness alarm functionality.
We have included A-scan and oscilloscope trace functionality to assist your measurements. Observing material condition and helping to verify the correct return back wall echo gives you confidence that you are measuring the correct wall thickness providing accurate thickness measurements every time.
The Portagauge® 6 thickness gauge also comes with a robust carrying case for added convenience, a calibration certificate as evidence that it’s been tested, and an ultrasonic couplant.
Portalevel®
The Portalevel® ORIGINAL is our low-cost, portable and battery powered, liquid level indicator designed to non-invasively, accurately, and reliably measure the level of fire suppression agent contained within a cylinder. The Portalevel® is suitable for most standard size cylinders containing CO2, Liquified Clean Agents and Halons.
The Portalevel® ORIGINAL utilises our trusted 7th generation technology, providing a very versatile and reliable solution. Over the years it has undergone numerous upgrade programs and the most popular unit in the range for testing standard size fire suppression cylinders.
The Portalevel® ORIGINAL is particularly advantageous for fire servicing companies and asset owners managing their own fire suppression systems. This is because the Portalevel® ORIGINAL provides a very quick, safe and efficient method for testing fire cylinder contents. Traditionally, companies manually weigh cylinders in order to measure cylinder content, which is dangerous, time consuming and requires shutdown of the fire suppression system.
- User-friendly, versatile and accurate to ±1.5 mm.
- Calibration feature and additional power setting for increased gain.
- Low-cost model.
- Capable of testing a wide variety of fire suppression agents, such as; CO2, FM200™, NOVEC™ 1230, old Halon agents, FE-13™, FE-25™, NAF S III™ and most core Clean Agent systems.
The Portalevel® ORIGINAL is designed to be a portable way to non-invasively locate the liquid level inside most single skinned cylinders. Our technology is suitable for many applications, but it is most widely used as a replacement to both weighing fire suppression cylinders during installation and servicing, or replacement for the fitting of internal and invasive liquid level ‘float’ devices. Once the liquid level height inside a container has been located, the agent weight can be determined using the Portasteele® CALCULATOR, which is designed to quickly convert liquid height to agent weight accounting for the cylinder size, agent type and temperature.
Converting Liquid Level to Weight: Monitoring the liquid level in fire cylinders is a vital aspect of any fire suppression system maintenance schedule, however, understanding how the liquid level relates to the fill weight of the cylinder is equally important. Coltraco Ultrasonics offer, in conjunction with the Portalevel® range, the world’s first liquid level to agent mass calculator.
The Portasteele® CALCULATOR calculates the agent weight of a fire suppression cylinder. It does this by using the liquid level determined by our Portalevel® range or inversely, by using the required fill level for a certain weight of suppression agent. The Portasteele® CALCULATOR is sold as a stand-alone unit on a 7’’ hand-held tablet to be used in conjunction with our Portalevel® range.
