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A full line of electrical and fiber optic bulkhead seals for pressure or vacuum with no detectable leakage through wires or pins. Standard parts for quick delivery!

 

Douglas Electrical Components Inc. V. Walboro Engine Management, LLC

PAVE web site - Hermetic connectors and feed throughs - electrical and Fiber Optic

- Chain Clamps

- Flanges - Fittings - Seals

  Applications in:

- Vacuum Ttechnology

- Semiconductor Process

- High Energy Physics

- Chemistry

- Cryogenics

EVAC web site. Chain clamps, flanges, fittings, seals, for: semiconductor, physics, chemistry, cryogenics.

Ion Gauge calibration and repair service for any control or tube combination against our NIST standard.

Free pick up and delivery in New England.

GFV web site. Accurate NIST traceable pressure measurement. Tubes, Controls & Calibration Service.

- Panel Overlays

- Labels   -Nameplates

- Membrane Switches

- Shielding & Insulators

- Insert Mold Decorations

- Property ID Labels

LUSTRE-CAL web site. Panel Overlays, Labels, Nameplates, Membrane Switches, Shielding & Insulators, Insert-Mold Decorations, Property ID Labels.

-Rocker Switch

-Slide Switch

-Push button Switch

-Miniature Toggle, Rocker, Push

-Ultra Miniature Toggle, Rocker, Push

-Micro witch

-Pull Chain

-Rotary Switch Encoder

-DIP Switch

-Tactile

-Socket

-Breaker, Fuse Holder

-Lampholder

-Screw Connectors

 

EVAC International stocks a complete line of EVAC chain clamps in Chicago, Illinois
aluminum metal seals for converting elastomer seal NW (KF) and ISO flanges to UHV metal seals. These seals provide a number of benefits over elastomer seals: reduced outgassing, no permeation, no hydrocarbons, resistance to radiation and short half-life. EVAC seals are used in high-energy physics, other UHV applications and, in some circumstances, cryogenic applications. EVAC seals are reliable in high vibration or temperature cycling environments. EVAC chain clamps and tapered flanges are the standard vacuum flange for many Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturers. The advantages over using the standard ISO flange are the time and space savings during assembly and the flexibility to form high vacuum or UHV seals.

To install a metal seal on an existing KF flange, simply remove the standard clamp, centering ring and O-ring assembly. Replace them with an aluminum knife edge seal and chain clamp. Standard ISO claw clamps
can be used with EVAC aluminum seals to convert ISO flanges from high vacuum to UHV. EVAC tapered flanges are manufactured in Switzerland and distributed in the US by EVAC International. Your local sales representative can assist you with price and delivery information.Tapered flanges are similar to NW flanges and are available in 80 and 100mm sizes from stock. Chain clamps are used to form either elastomer or metal seals with tapered flanges.

 

PAVE hermetic seals are any type of insulated, stranded or solid plated copper conductors in any combination or lengths, copper or brass connector pin contacts or glass fiber optic cables of any type, all sealed for low or high pressures or vacuums, helium gas tight, moisture tight bulkhead seals available in unlimited wide range of combinations that can be easily customized for cost effective small or large quantities. Wire connector terminations can also be included for a complete, ready to use hermetically sealed thru-bulkhead wire connector harness.
PAVE products are used in a wide range of industries around the world including aerospace, low emission PZEV automotive and small engine (motorcycle, ATV, marine, etc) fuel pumps and transmissions, process controls, defense, telecommunications, semi-conductor and scientific instruments of all types requiring high quality seals. All our customers require high performance and cost effective standard or custom designed gas and fluid tight hermetic seals.

PAVE seals use virtually any commercial or military specification insulated wires and/or connector pins sealed
in our proprietary epoxy process for a wide range of low and high pressures and vacuums, temperature range from -60 to 150C or 200C and from small to large quantity applications.

PAVE-Seal Harnesses are standard or readily custom designed bulkhead electrical or fiber optic cable seals that come in helium-tight hermetic, vacuum-tight, fluid-tight, gas-tight, NEMA 4-6 or IP65-68 type moisture-proof, and/or FM, UL, CSA, Cenelec Exxd explosion-proof seal versions. An unlimited range of cabling types and lengths may be specified. Seal integrity is complete whether pin or insulated wire types.

Hermetic thru-bulkhead continous conductor wire seals from 1 to 900 wires, #6 AWG to #30 AWG, any type insulation, low or high pressures or vacuums, gas-tight, moisture-proof, sealed including through the conductor or insulation.

PAVE-Mate I style connectors have dual sided electrical disconnecting plugs on BOTH SIDES with male pins on hex side and female sockets on thread side from 2 to 128 contacts, #4 AWG to #22 AWG

PAVE-Mate II with a single side disconnect and either pre-wired and sealed insulated wire leads or solder cups on the other side.

PAVE-Optic Seals can be single or multiple fibers, single or multi-mode fibers of any lengths or connector types such as SMA, ST, FCPC, etc for low or high pressures or vacuums.

Hermetically sealed coaxial or shielded cables of any type or PAVE-Mate connector types with isolated shields (BNC, SHV, SMA, etc) and multi-pin coaxial PAVE-Mate connectors, single or dual sided connections.

PAVE Technology Co has custom designed hermetically sealed wire or cable feedthrus and connectors, electrical, terminal, fiber optic, high voltage, coaxial, thermocouple, micro d-subminiature, passthroughs, fuel pump connector seals, packing glands, flex circuit seals, pave-mate, pave-seal, pave-flex, epoxy seal

1 to over 100 insulated, hermetic thermocouple pair wires of any type or multi-pin thermcouple connectors.
Welded wire junctions can also be ordered.

PAVE-Flex is an insulated flat cable or flex circuit hermetically sealed, any type can be specified though solid copper conductor f lat cable is the most economical.

Standard density, high density, micro d and nano d-subminiature hermetic connectors with either single
or dual sided connectors from 9 to 102 pins. Also coaxial and low cost thermocouple contact versions for pressure or vacuum, light weight aluminum or plastic shells.

Threaded copper or brass terminals or studs hermetically sealed for 20 amps to 1000 amps service up to high voltages for pressure or vacuum, single or multiple terminal penetration seals.

#20 AWG or smaller Pins on either one or both sides for low or high pressures and vacuum hermetic header
seal in small diameter seals.

Any type High voltage wire or cable up from 1-30 kV, single or multiple cables, with or without high voltage cable connectors.

EExd II, UL, Factor Mutual Enclosure 3600, and/or CSA in metric threads, NPT threads and/or TIG/laser welded designs can be provided.

Feedthru, hermetic connector,feedthrough, wire grommet seal, hermetic header, feed-thru, passthrough, passthru, fiber optic seal, electrical penetration, moisture-proof electrical seal, vacuum seal, ceramic seal, glass to metal seal.

 

GFV Associates, Inc. serves the vacuum process industry and the scientific community by supplying i services for measurement of vacuum. Our measurements are traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) meeting the requirements of ISO 9001 standards and military specifications.

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·         GFV Associates provides NIST- traceable calibration of your existing vacuum measurement equipment, usually a control and the tube used with the control. We also calibrate your existing tubes, providing a sensitivity (gauge factor) measured under standard conditions. For a description of our calibration services, click on CALIBRATE.

·         GFV Associates provides a complete line of hot-cathode ion tubes for vacuum measurement; these tubes may be used with our own control or controls manufactured by others. The tubes can be calibrated traceable to NIST. For a complete description, click on TUBES.

·         GFV Associates provides extensive consulting services for vacuum measurement. For a description of some of some past projects and our current capability, click on CONSULTING.

System Calibration Service

We will calibrate any control/tube combination, including hot cathode gauges, cold cathode gauges, and low-vacuum gauges against our National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards, providing a multipoint readout and graph, in the range from 10 -7 to 10 3 Torr. The service sets all of the available control parameters for the most accurate pressure readings, as well as establishing the functional performance of the system to a NIST-traceable standard. 

Hot-Cathode Control Qualification Service

Ideally hot-cathode ion tubes could be calibrated and characterized by their sensitivity -- that is their "gauge factor" -- without regard to the control used to operate the tube. GFV calibrates tubes using our NIST-tested controls; the gauge factors so measured can be used to establish NIST-traceable pressure measurements when the tubes are used on other "qualified" controls. 

Hot-Cathode Tube Calibration Service

Hot-cathode tubes from any manufacturer with any service history can be certified for use with GFV controls or qualified controls to provide NIST-traceable measurement with the same precision as new GFV tubes. 

Repair and Certification

GFV continues to provide repair and certification for our IGC-1 and IGC-10 ionization gauge controls. Certification price is $250.00; delivery is one week from receipt of the control.

Questions and Answers About GFV's Calibration Service

Question: Why calibrate my high vacuum pressure-measuring systems?

Answer: Because measuring equipment sensitivity changes. For example, using a pressure-measuring system, a process is determined to require a pressure reading of 1x10 -5 Torr or less.  The lower curve of the figure shows the pumpdown curve for this process; in 30 minutes the system reaches a low enough pressure and the process is initiated.  After a year, the pumpdown curve shown in the upper curve of the figure is observed; now it takes 46 minutes to reach 1x10 -5 Torr. The pressure-measuring system has drifted from its calibration at the time the process requirement was established.  It is misinforming the operator; the system is really reaching the required pressure in 30 minutes and the operator is taking 16 minutes longer than necessary.