by Shane Henson — May 1, 2013—Nolek, a developer and manufacturer of leak testing and detection instruments, recently announced the release of new digital portable leak detectors that will allow facilities personnel to easily find where helium, hydrogen and refrigerant gases are escaping from within buildings.
Nolek says that in the past five years it has spent considerable sums and time on the development of the proprietary SniffIT Technology used to develop a portable leak detector. First an analogue version of the product was released in the marketplace in 2010. Since that time, Nolek has been working on the digitalization of the product, the refinement of the measuring cell, and other improvements based on customer feedback.
Now, its new SniffIT digital series of portable leak detectors are truly redrawing the map of the leak detector marketplace, the company says. The SniffIT digital series of leak detectors will first be released in two versions: the SniffIT X1 Pro & Lite for detecting helium and hydrogen, and the SniffIT X3 Pro & Lite for refrigerant gases. In the coming year, new versions of the SniffIT digital series will be added to be able to detect other gases, Nolek says.
According to the company, its SniffIT Digital leak detectors are the most accurate high-sensitivity mobile sniffers in the world today, yet they are the lowest-priced leak detectors in the given sensitivity range.
“The technology leap that Nolek has made with these sniffers can easily be visualized by comparing the difference between the first car-mounted cell phones to the modern-day iPhone,” says Pär Thomaeus, sales manager of standard products at Nolek. “We have taken a product that the market generally knows as a big, expensive, heavy box with a hose connected to it into a product that is truly mobile, i.e. not bigger than a human hand and that weighs almost nothing in comparison.”
