SATA filter timer - Safety at the push of a button

Professional paint application requires 100% technically clean compressed

air. To ensure this, many paint shops today applying waterborne

paints and supplying the breathing protection equipment of their

painters with clean air are already employing the SATA filter 484 system.

In addition to a cyclone separator with sintered filter and a fine

filter stage, this three-stage filter regulator unit is also equipped with

an activated charcoal filter to efficiently remove ultra-fine particles and

oil vapours. In order to maintain the efficiency of the filter regulator

however, the unit must be regularly maintained, thus avoiding coating

flaws and other quality issues – and eventually expensive rework. The

regular replacement of saturated filter cartridges is of course equally

essential when working with air-supplied breathing protection, in order

to preserve the health of the painters. To remind users to exchange

exhausted filter elements regularly, from now on all SATA filter regulator

units will be supplied with a set of SATA filter timers.

Using the SATA filter timer is extremely easy: When a new filter regulator

unit is installed, each filter timer must be activated by pressing the

button to "start" the servicing interval of the respective filter stage. Over

time, the display window will gradually turn to red, indicating the passing

of time and serving as a guide to the measure of filter saturation.

Whenever a window has completely changed to red, the concerned

filter cartridge needs to be replaced. In line with the two different recommended

replacement intervals of approx. three or six months respectively,

there will be two filter timer versions available.

Additionally, the exchange filter cartridges will be also supplied with

SATA filter timers which have to be inserted in the self-adhesive holders

on the filter canisters and activated once maintenance is completed.

This ensures that recommended changes will be indicated ahead of

time prior to the filter cartridges having reached saturation levels. The

maintenance and service instructions of SATA filter regulator units must

be observed.