PROCEQ Equostat 3 Metal Hardness Tester

• Maker: Proceq
• Model: Equostat 3

The Equostat 3 was developed for accurate, rapid and reproducible metal hardness testing. It features excellent sensitivity through small penetration of a few µm and is therefore particularly suited for testingmetal hardness of surface layers on scratch-sensitive and polished parts or on thin parts, profiles and pipes with a wall thickness that is below 2 mm (0.08”).

The Equostat 3 works well in outdoor, factory and lab environments. It has only very few requirements on test piece geometries. The Equostat 3 probe can be connected directly to a laptop or a PC. Alternatively, the probe plugs into the Equotip 3 indicating device to combine the Rockwell principle of Equostat with the Leeb rebound principle of Equotip 3 to become the most versatile hardness tester. Live user guidance dialogs enable the user to obtain very accurate and highly reproducible measurements

• Precise metal hardness testing of very soft materials through to very hard materials
• Thin parts, profiles and pipes of a wall thickness ≤ 2 mm, sheets, coiled metal, as well as parts as thin as 0.2 mm (0.008”), depending on the hardness level
• Testing on scratch-sensitive or polished surfaces
• Metal hardness testing of heat-affected zones near welding seams

Proceq offers accessories such as a measuring clamp or several support feet adapt to freehand hardness measurements on various test piece geometries

• Accurate, rapid and reproducible metal hardness readings
• Measurements are independent of the material and sample dimensions
  Testing range from very soft (aluminum) up to very hard materials (case-hardened steel)
• Measurement in HRC, integrated conversions to HV, HB, HRA, HRB, HR15N, Rm possible
• Transfer of up to ~100000 stored readings from the Equotip 3 indicating device to a PC using Equolink 3
• Small test load yields small penetrations of only a few μm
• The Equostat 3 probe can be used in either a clamp or freehand
• In addition to the Equostat 3 probe, all the impact devices of the Equotip metal hardness tester can be used to also conduct rebound hardness testing with the same indicating device

• DIN 50157 (2007)
• ISO 18265 (2003)
• ASTM B724
• ASTM E140 (2007)
• DGZfP Guideline MC 1 (2008)
• VDI / VDE Guideline 2616 Paper 1 (2010)