Darren said: " If you wanted to set it up so it would have the capability for ramp rates and soak times you could always retrofit it with a PID or fuzzy logic type controller and make it even more useful! "
I've thought about that, and in fact, Fitz told me of a unit sold by Paragon, that may be just the ticket. However, the cost of the programmers, etc, is al most what the cost of a nice new Evenheat is, so that's a consideration. If I try to use Argon in the tube (as opposed to vacumn), is it a constant purge Darren? I obviously couldn't be sealed shut, with the Argon inside, because of expansion, I figure it would be a constant flow of a couple of regulated pounds of pressure, but I'm not sure. As to you're other offer "You wouldn't happen to have an Nd-Yag laser sitting around do you, we can get you hooked up doing some pulsed laser deposition experimental physics work!", yes, I have four of those, but not ready to unpack them quite yet
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