Stageledge - Automatic Point Counter
Stageledge is the most accurate automatic point counter available on the market and it is fully integrated and controlled by Petroledge, Hardledge and Counterledge systems. The point counter is adaptable to almost all kinds of microscopes provided by the main brands. Optimized quantitative petrography is granted by thin section precise movement control.
Advantages of Stageledge:
- The only point counter on the market to offer a minimum step size of 0.5 µm (0.0005 mm);
- Unique design allows more than 270 degree rotation during analysis;
- Substitution of traditional manual stage movement by an automated control;
- Facility, quickness and precision during quantification;
- Free movements using the included high-precision joystick;
- Compatible with main microscope brands (Leica, Olympus, Nikon and Zeiss);
- Stageledge® Pack - Control Software included (Counterledge + StageCounter);
- Easy USB installation.
Stageledge offers to rock sample description:
- Systematic thin section examination;
- Set step size and click in only one button to move it to the next desired point;
- A Compositional Map is recorded to allow you to go back and finish any quantification previously started;
- An Image can be added to any counted point, for visual reference;
- Compositional data storage for future analysis, with constituent positioning;
- Petrographic description task optimization;
- Total integration with Petroledge and Hardledge (sold separetely).
The History of Automatic Point Counters
In 1955, James Swift and Son Ltd. has launched the Swift, a single-axis motorized automatic point counter. For decades, this equipment has been successfully used by geologists and engineers. However, James Swift and Son Ltd. has stopped its operation in the 20th century.
Regarding the importance of this equipment for petrography and the evolution in the high precision technology, Endeeper has developed a high precision automatic point counter named Stageledge. This equipment, in opposition of the Swift Point Counter, is a XY motorized point counter.
Stageledge is the most accurate automatic point counter available on the market, it offers an accuracy of 0.5 µm (0.0005 mm). The high precision allows to automatically record a compositional map while the description is performed. The compositional map allows to go back to any quantified point.
Stageledge can be controlled by a range of software for petrographic analysis offering a complete solution for geologists and engineers.
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