Our most popular products are now only a few clicks away In a bid to make things easier for our customers and get them the products they need even quicker, Dycor is pleased to announce today that our e-commerce platform is now available. With just a few clicks, customers can browse through the initial 58…
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So, the SmartVue which was developed and built by Dycor Technologies is a Class One Div Two PID Controller that has an LCD screen which is good for a temperature rating of minus 40 to plus 70 degrees C. Some of the other key features of the SmartVue are the ruggedness of the unit which…
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So, an RTD is a current device and a thermocouple is a voltage device. The thermocouple is two dissimilar metals, welded together at a tip to create a voltage, a millivoltage. So an RTD is a resist of metal that changes resistance on increase or decrease in temperature. When deciding between an RTD and a…
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So J1939 is an industrial vehicle communications protocol. It’s used for all kinds of industrial vehicles including mining, forestry, agriculture, oil and gas, military, it’s actually used on ships as well. Really any diesel engine will utilize the J1939 protocol. So this is a protocol that’s the actual communications language and it runs over something…
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At Dycor, we design a number of data acquisition and Telemetry Solutions that are used off-grid. Where there’s no power and so we need to utilize batteries and solar panels. In order to determine a solar power budget for that there are a number of factor we look at. First of all we’ll look at…
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Modbus is a serial communication protocol. It was developed by Modicon in 1979. It’s an open protocol, and so you can buy devices from many different vendors, and they will all speak Modbus. Modbus works in a master slave relationship where you have one master communicating up to 247 slaves. It’s also poll and response…
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So I’m Edgar Semler, I’m the president of Dycor Technologies here in Edmonton, Alberta. So Dycor designed the SmartVue for the fracking industry, for fracking vehicles in particular. And so some of the key features are that it works, it has a touch screen that’s sunlight readable. Works down to minus 40 up to plus…
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FreeWave’s latest radio technology is called ZumLink. It is an ethernet and a serial radio. One of the really key features is its ability to include new Industrial Internet of Things protocols. So you can set up ZumLink radio with Linux-based software that will run and allow you to make decisions right on the radio.…
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So in April 2019 FreeWave released the FGR-three Serial Radio. Many years ago FreeWave originally started with the DGR radios. And they moved to the FGR, FGR-two and now they’re at the FGR-three series. The FGR-three series radio is 900 megahertz frequency helping radio, that is good up to about 100 kilometers, if you’ve got…
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We get to design and manufacture some pretty cool projects at Dycor. We had one customer, Alberta Forestry, came to us with a problem. They’re out building firebreaks and back burns for the forest fires, and they needed to know, first of all, what their effectiveness, and secondly, for litigation purposes, to be able to…
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