80 GHz Non-Contact Radar - BinMaster

CNCR Compact

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The CNCR series of 80 GHz compact non-contact radar level sensors have a measuring range up to 26, 49, or 98 feet depending on the model selected. Use them in smaller bins, tanks, or silos or where space is tight. Rugged and weather resistant, they can also be used in outdoor municipal or environmental applications or over pits and lagoons for animal waste management. Battery-powered models can be used when there is no access to power. You can install the CNCR in existing vessel openings, use a BinMaster swivel mount, wall mounting bracket, or mounting plate, or non-intrusively when measuring levels in plastic vessels.

Small Sensors with Big Benefits

80 GHz technology, narrow 8° beam works reliably in challenging conditions

Battery-powered, pigtail wired, and 1.5” NPT threaded models  

Simple installation and setup, fast setup using Bluetooth on a cell

No dead zone, measures right up to the face of the sensor

Chemical resistant enclosure, IP rated for protection against dust and water ingress

Compact design fits in tight spaces, installs through existing openings

Real-time measurement to BinCloud® software or integrated into a plant’s PLC

Increases safety, no climbing tanks, working over open tanks or sumps, or in confined spaces

No maintenance, low cost of ownership

Like Them in Liquids

Food for Humans and Animals

Food ingredients: Liquid ingredients take many forms such as sugars, extracts, and oils that can be translucent, opaque, or transparent.

Beverages: Makers of soft drinks, beer, liquor, energy drinks, or seltzers use water, juices, colorants, and additives in the production process.

Animal fat: This ingredient is used at feed mills for feedstuffs for livestock and in pet foods. It is also used in the production of soap, lubricants, and fatty acids.

Milk and dairy products: Raw milk storage, processing, and pasteurization tanks.

Fat and oil processing: Margarine and shortening production using animal fats and oilseed processing for corn, canola, sunflower, and other oils for human consumption.

Egg processing: Tanks storing water used for chilling, cleaning, pasteurizing, and liquid egg processing.

Liquid food processing: Sauces, chocolates, and condiments measured as raw ingredients and finished products in storage tanks.

Drinking or Purified Water

Spring water containment: Drinking water from springs is monitored to ensure sufficient supply.

Purified water tanks: Tanks that store purified water at facilities to ensure efficient plant operations and supply for periods of peak demand.

Industrial Uses

Process water: To ensure pressure pumps deliver a continuous supply of process water by monitoring the levels in storage tanks or open basins.

Bulk industrial containers: Measuring levels in IBCs, drums, or totes installing a sensor in the lid or opening or measuring through a plastic wall.

Industrial fluids: Hydraulic fluid, coolants, solvents, cleaners, lubricants, detergents, defoamers, degreasers, brighteners, cutting oils, metalworking fluids, rust and scale removers, and inhibitors.

Industrial manufacturing: Process and day tanks, cooling towers, RO storage, or waste sumps.

Wastewater: Bulk storage tanks, lift stations, open channels, or neutralization tanks.

Cement additives: Measure tanks containing accelerators, retarders, extenders, dispersants, and other characteristic control agents used to modify the properties of cement slurries.

Plasticizer tanks: Measure liquid resins like epoxies, polyurethanes, silicones, and polyester or other types of liquid resins.

Frac or silica sand: Monitoring fracture fluids, process water tanks, and flocculants used in dredge pump mining methods, sedimentation ponds, and wastewater used for processing and washing.

Water-cooled chillers: Ensure a continual water supply for industrial and batch water-cooled chillers by monitoring the level in holding tanks.

Oil & Fuels

Automotive oil and fluids: Monitoring levels of new and waste fluids such as oil, radiator, transmission, power steering, brake, and washer fluids, and air conditioning coolant.

Diesel storage: Bulk storage, transfer tanks, and on-site fuel storage.

Fuel tanks: Accurate measurement of fuels and oils to ensure an adequate supply is on hand for continuous operation.

Chemicals

Chemical processing: Monitor level in bulk storage tanks, industrial bulk containers (IBCs), or drums.

Chemical tanks: Measuring the level of tanks where water is being treated with chemicals or clarifiers to ensure tanks are filled at levels for optimum dosage.

Conditioning tanks: To ensure chemicals and precipitants are applied properly in optimal, low concentrations.

Glues and adhesives: Measuring animal-based or synthetic adhesives containing PVA, ethanol, acetone, and other substances.

Environmental

Sewer overflows: Level monitoring to prevent capacity overloads during heavy rain events. Ensure too much water will not enter the treatment processes.

Dam levels: Continuous measurement of the water levels at dams can be coupled with wireless data transmission for either drinking water supplies or flood control.

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Flood control: Monitoring river levels at gauge stations is essential to detecting and alerting when water levels are reaching flood stage.

River level measurement: To measure levels of rivers used for drinking water or to detect flooding conditions caused by dam releases or inclement weather.

Open air applications: Utilize these sensors on ships or bridges to measure the distance to the water.

Water & Wastewater

Municipal water treatment: Monitoring levels in open channels, lagoons, canals, lift stations, sediment tanks, clarifiers, and chemical feeding tanks.

Pumping stations: Level measurement at the inlet shaft is used to control running of the pumps by alerting when they need to be turned on or off.

Elevated storage tanks: Level monitoring is important to be sure that water pressure and supply is adequate during peak demand periods.

Overflow basins: Sensors can provide overflow protection for sewage treatment plants during flooding or stormwater during heavy rainfall.

Flocculant storage tanks: Monitoring the level of coagulant and flocking agents used remove minerals and organic particulates from water.

Gravel bed filters: Ensuring a consistent level of water is fed into gravel filtration beds used to remove sediment matter.

Open channels: Monitoring flow rate in a stream, irrigation channel, or unpressurized sewage pipe.

Vacuum sewerage system: Used to measure wastewater tanks at pumping stations that use a vacuum system. Measures accurately in turbulence and foam.

Sludge receiving stations: To measure the level of sewage sludge pumped from trucks (used to pump septic systems) into receiving tanks to control the input of sludge at the plant.

Equalization basins: Measure levels to ensure consistent flow to downstream processes in wastewater treatment.

Chemical tanks: Measurement of tanks storing chemicals used in the water treatment process.

Locally Installed Software

No cloud necessary with Binventory®

Don’t want your inventory in the cloud? Binventory® software from BinMaster installs on a PC on your LAN, WAN, or VPN. This PC software—formerly known as eBob—is used to manage inventory data from up to 255 vessels per sensor network. Use Binventory to send automated high and low-level alerts via text or , visualize vessel levels, and generate usage reports. This one-time software purchase can be used by one end user or installed across your entire organization with no per-user licensing fees.

This advanced software platform is compatible with non-contact radars and other BinMaster continuous level sensors or just about any sensor using the Modbus RTU or HART protocol. This makes Binventory a complete on-site solution for managing the inventory of either solids or liquids contained in bins, tanks, or silos.

Hi All,

Purpose of this Instructable is to hopefully teach how to measure a cylinder and piston, the correct place to measure a piston and why you find the largest possible diameter.

From my activities in many on-line motorcycle groups I've seen a number of people posting things are 'worn out' or wrong parts fitted because they can rock or move top of piston in cylinder bore after cylinder head has been removed

The piston and cylinder being measured are from a Suzuki T305

Suzuki also made a T250 which looked pretty much identical and a year later a T350 so make sure you have correct specifications

Before making any decisions on parts, you will need the stock
specifications, it's hard to judge clearances between parts when you don't know what exactly they should be so get service manual or technical data manual

In this case, the standard piston size is 59.955mm~59.940" but it's also given as an inch size of 2.360"~2.359"

During operation (ie, when engine is running) the top of piston is exposed to full heat of combustion which is normally around 7~800f or higher. Aluminium has a very high expansion when heated so at running temperature the piston top expands to 'fill' the cylinder bore (top of piston is probably averaging over 300f ?) This is a two stroke (two cycle) motor, conduction removes heat from top to underside of piston and fresh charge helps cool it and prevent a 'melt down' (mostly)

Pistons are machined so the largest mass of metal has room to expand and thinner sections (which don't expand as much) are different diameters. The sides of pistons where gudgeon (piston) pin fit, having more material then the thinner sections of skirt are also smaller than the 'nominal' diameter. It may be easier to picture a piston as being barrel shaped top to bottom and kind of 'pear' shaped looking down from top. The reasons are also linked to the way piston is 'pressed' into front or back of cylinder due to the connecting rod angle and direction of rotation of crankshaft

My wife borrowed fold up workbench to paint house, although you may think she only painted work surface.

You will need a pad and something to write with as your going to make multiple measurements at various points of cylinder. A couple of blocks of wood to hold cylinder off bench are also handy (in my opinion) Personally I prefer to measure cylinders from the top down but some people will invert them and measure from the bottom up (as cylinder is inverted your still going from top to bottom)

The wood is needed because the cylinder spigot protrudes through cylinder and makes it unstable on a 'small base', much easier to use the flat gasket face plus you can measure close to bottom of cylinder without gauge contacting bench (and messing up readings)

To accurately make measurements you will need some specialty measuring equipment, in this case, 'cheap' micrometer and bore gauge (I've had and used expensive ones, these do the same job)

To set up bore gauge, you need to know size of bore or size of piston. (2.360") In this case I had piston which was still in specification so didn't re-set micrometer plus it will give a direct reading of the actual clearance between cylinder and piston. (actual piston size closer to 2.")

The bore gauge has a range of only 0.050" measuring in ten-thousandths of inch. The contact end of gauge is about 2" long so a contact tip is needed to reach 2.360", the tip is for 2.400" bore so gauge will be compressed at least 0.040" (nicely within range)

The pictures show the disassembled head with contact tip and nut then assembled in between micrometer anvils

The top cover of bore gauge box has soft foam lining, from experience I've found the easiest most convenient way to set gauge or 'hold' micrometer is just sit it on the foam.

The flare from flash pretty much obscures the secondary dial (slightly above and to right of '4') It is important as it tells how many full revolutions the primary dial (with long pointer) has made. Picture of gauge set at 'zero' wasn't too difficult to take as I didn't have to worry about sliding out of micrometer anvils (I know, it's 'off by 1/10,000", actual setting is correct.

The majority of video's or tutorials will tell you to use a micrometer stand but I've found it really difficult to keep gauge contact points between micrometer anvils, the contacts are rounded and about 3/32", the micrometer anvils, 1/4" diameter. The hardened/carbide faces don't want to stay in place (it is possible but why make life deliberately difficult?)

The bore gauge doesn't take direct measurements, that is to say, it doesn't tell you the actual bore size, you need a little bit of math later on.

What it does do is compare the size it was set at to the hole size.

We know gauge is set to piston size and will be taking measurements at top of cylinder 'side to side' and 'front to back' getting a reading of the actual piston clearance. Max allowable is around 0.006", after that things start breaking up very quickly

Just so you know where you are, it's common practice to measure as X and Y, the X is side to side, the Y is front to back. Your also measuring from the top to the bottom, ABC, Top Mid Bot, etc (whatever floats your boat)

From the numbers, it's easy to see that the top of cylinder is close to danger zone, the middle is well into catastrophic failure region and the bottom has 'strange' numbers which are actually easily explained.

Going back to piston measurement, the sides of piston are removed for gas to flow through transfer ports (remember, it's a two stroke -picture of side of piston) There isn't anything to wear the cylinder so it's most likely the 0." was the standard clearance when bike was made..................... but.............. the pistons show no wear so they have probably been swapped for new ones and bores may possibly have been honed for new rings will 'bed in' meaning original clearance was less than 0." ???

If anyone wants to do the math, just add the clearances to the piston size of 2.359"(+3 or 4 or 5 ten thousandths of inch, take your pick from micrometer picture - LOL) to get actual bore size

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