Compact Online NIR Moisture Meter: Smart Head Design, No Controller Cabinet
Moisture measurement on a running line, from a sensor that mounts over the product and needs nothing else on the wall. Everything the measurement requires sits inside the head itself, which is what made this the smallest online system Kett built.
Instrument in a Single Head: No controller box, no separate enclosure, no rack space. The head mounts on four bolts and reads directly.
Reads Without Touching: Measures from 170 mm above the line, so nothing contacts the product and nothing interrupts the process.
Expandable to 30 Points: Network up to 30 heads on a single line and add measurement points as the process grows.
Built to Stay in Place: Integral air purge, temperature compensation, and a dust and drip resistant industrial housing for continuous duty.
Legacy desktop single-kernel grain and rice moisture meter. Replaced by the PQ520.
The PQ500 was Kett's first-generation desktop single-kernel moisture meter, measuring kernels individually and building a moisture distribution histogram for harvest timing, drying optimization, and lot consistency verification. Current production has moved to the PQ520, which offers expanded calibrations, faster throughput, USB output, and universal voltage.
Original single-kernel design: Resistance-based measurement of each kernel, with average moisture, kernel count, and 21-segment LED histogram display.
Four factory calibrations: Wheat, barley, rice, and paddy rice. Sample sizes selectable from 10 to 1,000 kernels.
Service and replacement support: Service and parts availability is limited for this legacy unit. Contact Kett for current options.
Motorized Rice Husker — No Longer Manufactured
The TR200 was a motorized rice husker for preparing brown rice samples ahead of moisture testing. It husked small paddy samples automatically, separating brown rice from husk so the sample was ready to measure.
Motorized husking: Pour in paddy and press start. The motor husked the sample, removing the manual effort of hand-husking.
Separated output: Brown rice and husk collected in separate trays for a clean, ready-to-test sample.
Overload protection: The motor stopped automatically if the unit bound on a hard object during husking.
Infrared Moisture Balance: Ceramic Heat, Fast Drying, Wide Material Range
A loss-on-drying moisture balance built around a stable ceramic heater, drying a 5 to 70 gram sample quickly without scorching. Reads moisture directly with selectable wet-base, dry-base, and solid-content output across one of the broadest application ranges available.
Ceramic heat to 400 °C: even, stable drying across a very wide range of materials.
Fast-drying mode: shortens measurement time without burning the sample.
Automatic zero-taring: re-zeros every 30 seconds to eliminate balance drift.
Console Driven Online Moisture System: Measurement Without a PC in the Loop
Continuous moisture measurement on a production line, run entirely from a hardware console. The sensor head mounts above the product and reports to the console, with no computer required anywhere in the installation.
No PC Required: Calibration entry, channel selection, and readout all happen at the console.
Four Heads Per Console: Add measurement points across the line up to four heads on one console.
99 Calibrations in the Head: Store a curve for every product you run and switch channels at the console.
Built for the Plant Floor: Aluminum casting, dust proof and drip proof, with integrated air purge and humidity compensation.
Ferrous Substrate Coating Thickness Gauge - Wireless - no longer in production
The best of the best, these test systems include the features of the 200 Series with the added benefit of radio frequency (RF) data transmission.
Test probes can be carried in a shirt pocket for the ultimate in portability. Data can be transmitted up to 1500 feet in an industrial setting, allowing the operator to test in any plant location and transmit the signal to the central storage/control unit.
Ferrous substrates can be measured.