Therm-x's Industrial Control Panels (ICP) for electric heaters have been engineered and designed to allow industrial design and field service engineers or operators to have the maximum flexibility to ensure precision thermal control and better data acquisition. The panel design typically includes an enclosure, internal wiring, switches, contactors or SCR/SSR, current transducers, heat sinks, fuses, temperature and electric displays, along with temperature sensing mechanism like thermocouples and RTD.
Depending on applications, ICPs can be designed with different levels of technical sophistication and control capability for a predetermined electric load or power. Various types of control panels are available:
Basic control with thermostat and temperature limit controller.
Panels with on/off contactor for the control of heaters having large electric load, e.g., >15 A, but processes require less frequent switching.
Panels equipped with Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR) or Solid-State Relays (SSR) provide fast switching and high precision with infinitely variable proportional control of electric power.
Therm-x ICPs are used in the following applications and industries: