A permanent clamp-on transit-time flow meter with a 1:2500 turndown, a 16 MB timestamped datalogger and waveform diagnostics. AC or DC powered. Made in Britain.
SKU IC-UPF
You want permanent non-invasive metering with a serious data record and a very wide flow range.
Compare that to the 100:1 on most portables. Turndown is the ratio between the highest and lowest flow a meter can measure credibly, and it decides whether one instrument covers your whole operating envelope or whether you are blind at the bottom of it.
A meter that goes blind at low flow does not tell you it has gone blind. It reports zero, or it reports noise, and both look plausible.
The 4–20 mA answers what is this pipe doing right now. The 16 MB timestamped log answers what has this pipe been doing. When a process engineer asks why the yield dropped last Thursday, the second question is the one that gets answered.
Genuinely unusual on a meter at this price: the IC-UPF can distinguish fluids by their acoustic properties. Water and oil have different speeds of sound, and a meter that measures speed of sound can tell you which one is going past. It is why METRI calls out oil dewatering as an application.
85–265 V AC or 7–24 V DC. This is not field-changeable. The DC option is what makes remote and solar-powered installations possible — get it wrong and you have a mains-only instrument at a site with no mains.
| Technology | Ultrasonic transit-time, clamp-on (non-invasive). UK-developed Digital Signal Processing. |
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| Pipe size | DN15 to DN1000 (transducer options cover 10 to 3000 mm) |
| Compatibility | Any clean fluid, full pipe. Gas/solids <10% by volume. |
| Flow range | 0.01 to 25 m/s |
| Resolution | 0.25 mm/s |
| Measurement rate | 1 Hz standard |
| Repeatability | 0.15% of measured value |
| Accuracy | ±1–3% of measured value depending on application. ±0.5% with process calibration against a reference meter. |
| Turndown ratio | 1:2500 |
| Data logging | 16 MB date- and time-stamped datalogger, intervals 1–255 s, download via serial-to-USB |
| Communications | RS232 and USB serial as standard |
| Outputs | Six I/O modules available |
| Display | 215 × 160 pixel graphics display with backlight |
| Keypad | 15-key tactile keypad with audio feedback |
| Power | 85–265 V AC or 7–24 V DC at 10 W (specify when ordering) |
| Enclosure | IP65 |
| Dimensions | 215 × 185 × 100 mm |
| Weight | 840 g |
| Control unit temperature | −10 to +65 °C |
| Transducer material | Stainless steel and PEEK |
| Transducer temperature | −10 to +80 °C |
| Transducer rating | IP54 standard, IP68 optional |
| Transducer cable | 10 m standard, longer available |
| Diagnostics | Waveform signal diagnostics |
| Heat / BTU | Heat flow measurement with additional temperature sensors |
| Other functions | Batching, manual totalizer, product identification (suitable for oil dewatering) |
| Origin | Made in Britain. iCenta is ISO 9001 certified (cert. 5364). |
Specifications transcribed from the manufacturer datasheet and subject to change. Confirm against the controlling document before specifying — Seztec will send it to you on request.
This instrument is specified into the following industries. Each page covers the specific measurement problems, the fluids involved, and what usually goes wrong.
Send us pipe size, pipe material, wall thickness, lining, fluid, and how much straight run you have. A Seztec application engineer will confirm the fit — or tell you it is the wrong instrument, which happens and which we would rather say before you buy.
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