EXPERIMENTER'S KIT-2
Amptek’s EXP-2 Complete Experimenter’s Kit is a package designed to help a user quickly begin doing elemental analysis via X-ray fluorescence (XRF). It includes hardware and software supplied by Amptek. Once this kit is assembled and the software configured and calibrated, one can begin doing simple analyses. This kit is general purpose, so is not tailored to a particular application, but can be the starting point for a customized system.
Product Details
The Experimenter’s Kit combines three separate, standard Amptek products and a unique mechanical fixture. The standard components are (1) the X-123 FAST SDD spectrometer (which includes a detector and the DP5 digital signal processor), (2) the 10 Watt Mini-X2 X-ray tube (which includes a collimator with a place to mount filters), (3) XRS-FP2 X-ray analysis software, and (4) the EXP-2 mechanical fixture which provides radiation shielding, safety interlocks, and a sample chamber.
The standard XRF Kit configuration comes with the an X123 with Fast SDD® 25mm2 detector. The user must supply a modern Windows PC with three (3) available USB ports.
Complete XRF System Includes
- X-123 Complete Spectrometer with Fast SDD® detector
- 10W Mini-X2 USB Controlled X-Ray Tube
- XRS-FP2 Quantitative Analysis Software
- Test stand with shielding and sample enclosure
- Stainless Steel 316 (SS316) test sample
- Complete documentation with step-by-step instructions
No. This kit contains all of the critical hardware and software required to perform energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF), but it is not a turn-key system. It requires not only assembly but also configuration of the hardware and software, and calibration.
A turn-key system is generally designed to handle a wide range of measurement applications. If a user has a specific application, particularly one that is challenging for turn-key systems, the Amptek XRF Experimenter’s Kit lets the user optimize the entire system for that one application. It is a very powerful tool for specific and challenging measurement applications. But to obtain its advantages, the user must invest the time to fully optimize the hardware, the software, the calibration procedures, and so on.
A turn-key system is designed for an operator with minimal training. The operator turns on the system, takes a measurement, and the system gives the answer. The designers of the turn-key system have already optimized the configuration, calibrated the system, and evaluated its measurement uncertainty. The XRF Experimenter’s Kit requires a user to carry out these steps and to have the knowledge to carry them out. It is possible to use the XRF Experimenter’s Kit to fabricate a prototype of an OEM system, which is simple to use, but this requires development effort.
