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Electromagnetic Testing - Eddy Current Testing Applications Chapter 5 & 6

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The balance load may be within the probe, or elsewhere in the electric circuit.<br />

Differential probes have two coils sensing the test material, with the coils<br />

connected on adjacent arms of the bridge circuit. Because of this, differential<br />

probes give a signal only when the two coils sense different conditions.<br />

Therefore, identical conditions and gradually varying conditions, like gradual<br />

wall thinning, cannot be detected by differential probes. Long flaws, such as a<br />

seam in a tube, will give a signal only at their beginning and end. In addition,<br />

because they give more complex signals, interpretation of signals can be much<br />

more difficult. Despite these disadvantages, they are more commonly used than<br />

absolute probes. This is largely because probe wobble noise is much less, and<br />

temperature drift and wandering of the spot because of changes in the<br />

conductivity of the tube are almost absent.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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