Don’t Forget Calibration Gas for Your Detector

You would be surprised at just how many people purchase air monitors, but either forget (or are too cheap) to purchase the critical calibration gas that is needed to ensure a monitor is reading accurately. Here at Conney Safety, we strive to make sure all customers are aware of the importance of using cal gas every day the instrument is used.

You see, calibration gas is used to “bump” an instrument. This is the process of exposing the sensors to a known concentration of gas, setting off the sensors into an alarm mode. By bump testing, you don’t change any set points on the sensors, but just make sure everything is working correctly. If the sensors do not react to the gas or are not reading close to the levels of gas in the cal bottle, a “calibration” of the sensors is needed. This is where you tell the instrument to change the readings to match the correct levels that are in the calibration gas.

Check out this article from ISHN to learn more.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 4:45 am and is filed under Safety Articles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.