Olympus 38DL PLUS User Manual

DMTA-10004-01EN, Rev. D, November 2016
Instrument Description 19
1. Instrument Description
This chapter describes the main features and the hardware components of the
38DL PLUS instrument.
1.1 Product Description
The 38DL PLUS by Olympus is a hand-held ultrasonic thickness gage designed for a
wide variety of thickness measurement applications. With the 38DL PLUS, you only
need access to one side of a part to measure, in a nondestructive manner, the thickness
of corroded, pitted, scaled, granular, and other difficult materials (see Figure 1-1 on
page 19).
Figure 1‑1 Measuring thicknesses with the 38DL PLUS

Olympus 38DL PLUS Specifications

General

Operating Temperature	-10 °C to 50 °C (14 °F to 122 °F)
Data Logger	Yes
Interface	USB, RS-232
Thickness Range	0.08 mm to 635 mm (0.003 in. to 25 in.) depending on material and transducer
Display	Backlit LCD
Battery Type	Three alkaline or NiMH AA cells
Pulser	Adjustable square wave pulser
Receiver Bandwidth	0.5 MHz to 20 MHz
Languages	English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese
Resolution	0.001 mm or 0.0001 in.
Transducer Frequency	2 MHz to 30 MHz
Material	Plastic housing