Ensuring Accurate, Reliable Data to Advance Scientific Discovery
Heaters play a critical role in test and measurement applications by ensuring accurate, stable, and repeatable conditions—especially where temperature-sensitive materials, components, or systems are being evaluated. Instruments used in test and measurement enable precise and accurate data collection and drive the continuous advancement of scientific research and development.
Whether calibrating instruments or stress-testing components, even tiny thermal variations can skew results, leading to costly errors or unnoticed defects. Industries such as electronics, aerospace, automotive, and energy depend on precise heating systems—from environmental chambers to thermal analyzers and materials testing—to ensure reliability and regulatory compliance.
Longstanding Collaborations with Test and Measurement OEMS
Backer Hotwatt’s longstanding partnerships with scientific instrument OEMS has yielded an impressive portfolio of heaters—cartridge, foil, ceramic, tubular, and more—specifically designed for a wide range of applications that includes laboratory, analytical, and test and measurement.
Our “sweet spot” is collaborating with OEMs to create custom thermal solutions that enable them to meet the diverse needs of the marketplace and remain at the forefront of analytical technology. Our expertise in engineering precise, reliable heating solutions is valued by customers across a variety of scientific endeavors that utilize test and measurement equipment, including:
- Medical and Healthcare: Vital for diagnostics, research, and patient monitoring; includes such instrumentation as blood analyzers, medical imaging equipment, and patient monitoring systems.
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering: Used for product development, quality control, and troubleshooting, including instruments such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and logic analyzers.
- Automotive and Transportation: Used across a variety of applications, including engine testing, emissions analysis, electrical system diagnostics, and vehicle dynamics testing.
- Aerospace and Defense: Precise, rigorous testing is essential to ensure the safety and reliability of aircraft, spacecraft, and defense systems. Test and measurement equipment is used for a variety of testing—structural, avionics, environmental, and vibration.
- Research and Development: Test and measurement equipment is employed in various research fields, including physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology.
Optimal Thermal Heating for Precise Results
Precise, reliable thermal heating is the unsung hero of test and measurement. A well-crafted heater ensures thermal repeatability, data integrity, and component safety. Backer Hotwatt drives quality assurance, delivering the right heater for your application.
From micro cartridge heaters to silicone pad heaters, we design and build custom thermal solutions to provide reliable, uniform, and consistent heat. No matter what your specifications are—such as tailored geometries, wattage, or control systems—our engineers can help achieve your design and performance heating requirements.
Our portfolio of heating solutions includes:
- Micro Cartridge Heaters: Compact and powerful, ideal for localized and high-precision heating in small spaces. These miniature heaters—typically under 1/4 inch in diameter—are especially valuable in maintaining thermal stability and heating calibration blocks.
- Tubular Heaters: Robust and versatile, tubular heaters are used in large-scale or high-temperature test and measurement applications that require reliable and uniform heating—especially where heat must be applied to solids, liquids, gases, or surfaces under controlled conditions.
- Foil Heaters: Thin and flexible, this heater is ideal for delicate surfaces or curved geometries and works well for such applications as sensor and instrument temperature control and material testing.
- Pure Flow Process Air Heaters: Air process heaters provide tight temperature control and high stability by heating the temperature of a flowing air stream as it passes over resistive elements. These heaters are especially useful for non-contact heating, drying, and thermal testing.
- Immersion Heaters: Designed to be inserted into liquids, immersion heaters offer highly efficient thermal transfer for precise temperature control in such applications as laboratory and analytical instruments, process monitoring, and sensor testing.
- Strip Heaters: These heaters provide excellent localized heat for specific components, materials, or environments during testing or measurement processes that require uniform, even heat distribution.
- Silicone Pad Heaters: Sheathed in silicone rubber, this flexible heater provides controlled, uniform heat for a wide range of applications, from thermal analysis to fluid and gas testing.
Custom Heating Solutions for Optimal Test and Measurement Results
As products become more advanced and industry standards more stringent, the demand for high-performance test and measurement heating solutions will continue to grow. Choosing the right heater is essential for any test and measurement application where quality, safety, and reliability are essential.
Backer Hotwatt engineers solutions that easily integrate into existing instrument setups, ensuring fine-tuned control and rapid thermal response. We can help you solve complex engineering and performance challenges, custom designing and building the best heater for your test and measurement application. Contact an engineer today to set up an exploration consultation.