Our laboratory colorimeter is as comfortable as it is functional. The ergonomic design, coupled with a finely crafted surface, ensures a comfortable grip for users with varying preferences. The device's fast-charging system and long battery life further enhance convenience, making it an indispensable tool for professionals on the move.
- Advanced Full-Spectrum LED Light Source: The digital colorimeter utilizes a full-spectrum balanced LED light source, ensuring a comprehensive spectral distribution within the visible light range, which leads to more accurate color measurements.
- Enhanced Dual 32-Array Sensor: The handheld colorimeter equipped with a larger dual 32-array sensor, this colorimeter offers higher sensitivity in low-light conditions and avoids saturation in strong light, improving measurement speed, accuracy, and consistency.
- High-Resolution Grating Spectral Technology: The laboratory colorimeter employs grating spectral technology, delivering superior resolution for more precise color measurements, making it an ideal tool for detailed color analysis.
- Efficient Charging System: The lab colorimeter features a special fast-charging method with low voltage reminders. It allows for charging during non-working hours, ensuring battery longevity and avoiding damage from frequent recharging.
- Ergonomically Designed Grip: The colorimeter's handle and measurement button are thoughtfully designed to accommodate various grip preferences, with a smooth and delicate surface that reflects high-precision craftsmanship.
- Versatile Aperture Options: The USB colorimeter CR8 offers selectable aperture sizes of either φ8mm or φ4mm, providing flexibility to meet your specific sample measurement requirements.
- Extensive Data Storage: The lab colorimeter can store up to 500 standards and 10,000 samples. It also allows for syncing a large amount of data with an app, enabling quick access to color data for analysis and comparison.
- Cloud-Based Personal Color Database: Through the app, users can build a personal color database in the cloud, eliminating the need to carry heavy color cards. The SISCO-CR8 colorimeter allows you to find the closest color match across multiple color cards anytime, anywhere.
Application
The colorimeter can easily achieve accurate color transmission and can also be used as precision color testing equipment. It is widely used in plastic, electronics, paint, ink, textile and garment, printing and dyeing, printing paper, automotive, medical, cosmetic and food industries, research institutes, schools and laboratories.
| Model | SISCO-CM-CR8 |
| Optical Geometry | D/8 SCI measurement Comply with standard CIE No. 15,GB/T 3978,GB 2893,GB/T 18833,IS07724-1 |
| Integrating Sphere Size | φ40mm |
| Light Source | Combined fll-spectrum LED light source |
| Spectroscopic Method | Planar grating |
| Sensor | Silicon photodiode arrays (dual row 32 groups) |
| Wavelength Range | 400~700nm |
| Wavelength Interval | 10nm |
| Semiband Bandwidth | 10nm |
| Measurement Range | L:0-120 Rletity， the instrument can test the reflectivity at 3 specific wavelengths specifed by the user |
| Measurement Aperture | Single aperture:φ8mm (φ4mm optional) |
| Focusing Method | Fixed Focus |
| Specular Component | SCI |
| Color Space | CIE LAB,XYZ,Yxy,LCh |
| Color Difference Formula | △E*ab,△E*00 |
| Other Colorimetric Indexs | Multiple colorimetric indexs are realized through APP |
| Observer Angle | 10° |
| lluminant | D65,A,F2(CWF) |
| Displayed Data | Refectivity chromatcity value, color difference value/graph, pass/fail result, color simulation, color offset |
| Display Accuracy | 0.01 |
| Measurement Time | Approx. 1.5s |
| Repeatability | Chromaticity value: MAV/SCI, OE*ab within 0.04 |
| Inter-instrument Error | MAV/SCI, within OE*ab 0.35(Average for 12 BCRA Series II color tiles) |
| Measurement Method | Single measurement, average measurement (2~99 times) |
| Locating Method | Stabilizer locating |
| Battery Power | Lithium battery, 6000 times in 8 hours |
| lluminant Life Span | 5 Years, more than 3 million times measurements |
| Display | TFT true color 3.5inch, capacitive touch screen |
| Data Port | USB, Bluetooth@ 5.0 |
| Data Storage | 500 Standard samples, 1,0000 samples，APP mass storage |
| Operating Temperature Range | 0~40°C, 0~85%RH (no condensation), altitude< 2000m |
| Storage Temperature Range | -20~50°C，0~85%RH (no condensation) |
| Dimension | 81x71x214mm |
| Weight | 460g |
SISCO-CR8 Colorimeter User Manual.pdfQ1: How does a colorimeter work?
A1: Colorimeters rely on the concept of the Beer-Lambert law, which assumes that the absorbance of a substance is proportional to its concentration. For example, the higher the concentration of a solution, the higher the absorbance reading. Many chemical and biological experiments are based on this concept. To obtain a Beer's law curve, several standards (solutions of known concentration) are prepared and their absorbance values are determined using a colorimeter.
Q2: What is colorimetry?
A2: A colorimeter is a device that measures light absorbance (how much light is absorbed) and light transmission (how much light passes through) in a liquid by analyzing the intensity of the color.
Q3: What are the limitations of a colorimeter?
A3: One limitation of chemical colorimeters is that differences in certain substances may lead to inaccurate test results. According to Global Water Instrumentation, because these differences are different for each substance, a chemical colorimeter alone is not a completely foolproof testing device.
Tips: Which mobile apps are compatible with the Bluetooth feature of this colorimeter?
The colorimeter is compatible with a variety of color management apps available on iOS and Android platforms. You can check the manufacturer's website or the app store for recommended applications that work with this colorimeter.
The Bluetooth functionality allows the colorimeter to wirelessly connect to your smartphone, tablet, or computer. This enables seamless data transfer, remote control of the device, and integration with various color management apps.
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