We’ve been busy making improvements – The JC-30D-EZ

Preferred’s R&D department made such significant improvements to the JC-30D opacity monitor, we re-branded it the JC-30D-EZ. The new opacity monitor is EZ to install, EZ to setup, and EZ to calibrate.

What’s New?

  • With the new LED light source, there is nothing to adjust on the light source side of the opacity monitor. So the adjustable mount has been replaced with a rigid pipe mount.
  • Because the new detector lens is directional, the new receptor can’t see ambient light coming in from severe angles, so the light shields are not required anymore.
  • The electronics in the light source have been improved to allow calibration from the display. The DIP switches, pushbutton, and potentiometer are gone, so calibration can be initiated from the display on the ground and there is no need to go up on the stack anymore.

The JC-30D-EZ can be set up to auto-calibrate every time the burner shuts down to compensate for increasing soot on the source and detector lenses. This means lenses can go up to nine times longer between cleanings!

Dirty lenses can cause high stack opacity shutdowns on previous, and competing opacity monitors. The JC-30D-EZ’s ability to auto-calibrate itself to adjust for dirty lenses makes a high opacity shutdown much less likely.

Congratulations to the R&D department for making the JC-30D-EZ best opacity monitor on the market. We especially want to share the good news with New York City, Boston, and elsewhere where opacity monitors are required by code. The new JC-30D-EZ can be retrofitted to older JC-30 opacity monitors, and it can replace existing Smoke Watchman units.

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