YSI 6136 Turbidity Sensor

In the continued interest of providing the users of YSI technology with the most accurate, reliable, and easy to use water quality monitoring technology, YSI, Inc. announces the new 6136 turbidity sensor. The 6136 is a fouling-resistant, wiped sensor designed to seamlessly integrate - using no external interface hardware - with all YSI sondes that contain an optical port. The YSI 6136 provides accurate, in situ measurement of turbidity in fresh, brackish, and sea water, as well as other applications requiring highly accurate turbidity data assuming the instrumentation is calibrated properly.

The YSI 6136 sensor can be used in combination with those YSI sondes that have optical ports -6820, 6920, 6600, 600 OMS or 6600 EDS (Extended Deployment System) - and a YSI 650 MDS handheld display-logger. Make surface as well as vertical profile measurements. In addition, the YSI 6136 in combination with one of the YSI data-logging sondes can be used for unattended continuous monitoring or integrated with data collection platforms for real time data acquisition.

Extensive emperical field and laboratory tests performed by YSI and independent agencies in Alpha and Beta studies document close agreement between in situ measurments made with the YSI 6136 turbidity sensor and data from the Hach™ 2100AN™ , a laboratory instrument recognized as the standard for turbidity measurement.

NOTE: In order to access important documents for the use of the new 6136 turbidity probe please click here.




Table 1. Comparison of turbidity measurements made with the YSI 6136 Turbidity Sensor and
HACHTM 2100ANTM at 70 different riverine and lacustrine sites exhibiting widely varying (lower) turbidity ranges.


Features and Benefits
• Temperature compensation provides greater accuracy
• Wiped optics: field-proven for fouling prevention
• Compatibility with all YSI optical port sondes provides system flexibility
• Handheld measurements, continuous data-logging, real-time data acquistion

Applications
• Dredging
• Stormwater
• Circulation: lakes, reservoirs, bays, estuaries
• Construction sites
• Vertical profiling
• Long-term studies
• Surface water evaluations
• Wastewater Treatment Facility: hydraulics, performance evaluation


YSI 6136 Turbidity Sensor Specifications
Resolution 0.1 NTU
Range 0 - 1000 NTU
Accuracy +/- 5% of reading or 2 NTU, whichever is greater
Depth 61 meters (200 feet)
Warranty One-year



Please click here for the 6136 specification sheet as a pdf.