Author Archives: James McKenzie

Generation 8 PFM range extension – revision 2 hardware

Hirst has added a high temperature small sample kit to its best selling PFM08-10 product range. The small sample kit is capable of testing samples as small as 1x1x1mm at temperatures up to 150℃ – this is via a SHS-05-HT stick that can be added to the small sample kit (SHS-05-kit). One of the mainContinue reading “Generation 8 PFM range extension – revision 2 hardware”

MCSD-100J touch screen production magnetiser

Hirst are pleased to announce the release of the MCSD100J-T, a powerful precision microprocessor-controlled capacitor discharge Magnetiser, Charger, Setter, Demagnetiser.  This is the new 4th generation of the ever popular industry workhorse MCSD100J.  The MCSD series is widely used across industry for the setting and calibration of magnets and magnet assemblies. Particularly magnet materials such asContinue reading “MCSD-100J touch screen production magnetiser”

25 years of commercial PFMs at Hirst Magnetic Instruments

The first commercially available Pulsed Field Magnetometer (PFM) from Hirst was announced in 1998 (with the first machine shipped in 1999) but research work had been started 10 years earlier as it was clear modern high coercivity magnets could not always be measured on the traditional permeameters due to pole piece saturation and faster testsContinue reading “25 years of commercial PFMs at Hirst Magnetic Instruments”