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Product category: Machine Safety Components
News Release from: SA Equipment | Subject: ML800ATEX safety handlamp
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 18 October 2005

ATEX handlamp features powerful LED
light source

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The new ML800ATEX safety handlamp from portable lighting specialist SA Equipment is claimed to be the first rechargeable ATEX handlamp to feature a powerful LED light source.

The new ML800ATEX safety handlamp from portable lighting specialist SA Equipment is claimed to be the first rechargeable ATEX handlamp to feature a powerful LED light source It offers one of the brightest beams available from a compact handlamp and has one of the slimmest profiles of any right-angle torch, making it suitable for fastening to a belt or clothing for hands-free use

Made from ultra-tough antistatic thermoplastic and aluminium, with a toughened glass lens, the rugged, IP66-rated ML800ATEX has been fully tested and approved for use in ATEX classified zone 1 and zone 2 potentially explosive atmospheres.

It offers safe and effective lighting for a wide range of uses including fire and rescue, offshore, oil and gas and utility applications.

The ML800ATEX uses the latest SideFire technology from a 1W LED light source and specially designed internal reflector to provide a powerful, even beam.

The LED light is also extremely colour accurate, making it suitable for any colour-critical tasks such as wiring inspection.

Unlike traditional filament bulbs, the LED will give years of reliable service with no need for replacement throughout the handlamp's normal service life.

The go-anywhere ML800ATEX boasts a host of in-built safety features to ensure users are never left stranded in the dark.

Four LED indicators on the lamp provide invaluable battery charge status information over four 25 per cent stages, while a low-charge warning device and last-chance indicator blinks the light beam every fifteen seconds to warn users before the battery charge is exhausted.

The handlamp's advanced NiMH battery does not suffer from memory effect, even after frequent charging.

In addition SA's high-technology MLC charger uses a temperature sensor to automatically adjust the charging regime in response to cell temperature for optimal charging and cell life.

The ML800ATEX and MLC charger are suitable for use in emergency vehicles.

The MLC's compliance with the 95/54/EC directive regarding installation of electrical equipment into vehicles enables it to safely charge lighting equipment when a vehicle is in use, without interfering with surrounding electrical products (the 95/54/EC directive governs safe levels of electromagnetic interference between electrical equipment within vehicles).

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