Temperature Controller

WPI ATC 2000 low noise animal temperature controller, including a specially developed heating plate designed for use with the OcuScience in-vivo and ex-vivo rodent ERG systems. Animal Temperature Controller is a low noise heating system for maintaining animal body temperature during experimental procedures. The DC heater is extremely quiet in terms of electromagnetic radiation. This is essential in electrophysiological recordings which are very sensitive to electromagnetic interference. The controller uses proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) technology in adjusting the DC voltage output. Compared with switched on/off type controllers, PID controllers provide a much more precise and stable control of temperature. The PID approach is also more immune to the variation of the experimental conditions such as change in animal size and unexpected disturbances. The Animal Temperature Controller has three temperature sensing inputs. The resistive temperature device (RTD) probe input c