Hydramotion has introduced a mains-powered benchtop version of the popular Viscolite® portable viscometer for real-time continuous viscosity monitoring in laboratory-scale equipment.

The Viscolite® VL700HP offers all the benefits of the portable version with the added advantages of a 4-20 mA analogue viscosity output and an RS232 serial data link for connection to a PC.  The benchtop version also includes an integrated temperature probe and temperature-correction software as standard.

With a range of 0.1 to 10,000 cP in fluids at –40 to +150 °C, the instrument has very high repeatability and excellent sensitivity, even at low viscosity.  It is ideal for tracking changes in viscosity during polymerisation reactions in the laboratory.

Operation is quick and easy.  As with the portable instrument, the solid rod sensor is simply immersed in the fluid under test and viscosity is immediately displayed on the dedicated readout unit.  The standard VL700HP can be used with any fluid volume over about 75 ml, while the small-sample T15 model requires little more than 10 ml.  Once measurements are completed, the probe is cleaned within seconds.