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• To use the www.valvefinder.com site, you have to be registered first.
• To register press the corresponding link on the main page.
• On the register page you find extra help.
• When already logged in, you may modify or delete your registration information on this home-page.

Quick Tour

When logged in follow the steps 1-4 below to get Valves, Actuators and Accessory, retrieve additional information about and to handle the cart:

Detailed Tour

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Find valves over Products Specifications:

• Click on Type, Body type, Diameter,... links for explanations. You may select the wanted specifications here or directly within the combo-boxes of the valves-mask.
• Click the button: Find Valves
• If no valves are found, uncheck some specifications, click the button Calculate Choices to reduce the entries of the boxes for values resulting in valid valve-configurations only.
• Click again Find Valves.

Find valves over Working Conditions:

• Select the wanted media by the media-link or directly within the media combo-box. Click the button Calculate Choices to reduce the entries of the product specification boxes for values resulting in valid valve-configurations only.
• When using the media-link you see media-names also in other languages. The button Search Media searches the media-names in 6 languages. To see explanations of the media check "Display Description".
• The link more info in the valve-mask shows media names in all languages, description of the media as well as the media-material tolerances in detail.
• Select some still available Products Specifications and click the button Find Valves.

The use of Product Options may also reduce variety of available product specifications.

All valid valves are listed, with the most adequate one at first. For technical details and 2D and 3D drawings click on article code.

Go on by pressing Actuator in the line of the desired valve.

Advanced hint: The detail page may also be bookmarked, so when looking for valve-details you may go there directly and enter a valve-code without going through the selection. Advanced hint: When printing the page of valve-details in A4-landscape, all information fits on one single page.

Find actuators after valves selection:

• To use the www.valvefinder.ws site, you have to be registered first.
• First select the kind of actuator, this is required. According to the selection within the list-boxes all content of all list-boxes on this page is recalculated for valid configurations immediately.
• For several types of actuator you have to choose severe condition/dry medium or not. Intentionally this selection has no default.
• Adjust other parameters of choice as available and needed.
• Press Find Actuator

All valid actuators according to your selections and satisfying the torque need of the chosen valve are listed, with the most adequate one at first. For technical details and 2D and 3D drawings click on article code.
The list also shows if there is some mounting part needed for the specified valve/actuator configuration. If possible, the needed part is calculated and added as accessory automatically.

Go on by pressing Accessory in the line of the desired actuator.

Advanced hint: The detail page may also be bookmarked, so when looking for actuator-details you may go there directly and enter an actuator-code without going through the selection.
Advanced hint: In the Actuator selection mask you may enter or modify the valve-code directly. By knowing the valve-code, you do not have to go through the valve-selection. Advanced hint: When printing the page of actuator-details in A4-landscape, all information fits on one single page.

Find accessory after actuator selection:

All available accessory for the selected valve and actuator is listed, grouped by function. In some groups you may choose just one article, this is written in the head of the group. There is some other logic behind to prevent not valid combinations. Nevertheless it cannot bee guaranteed to have only useful combinations.

Go on by pressing the Add to Cart button on the bottom of the page.

Advanced hint: Like on the valve or actuator page, you may enter valve/actuator codes directly on top of the screen. For this you could look for accessory without going through valve and/or actuator selection.

Cart:

• All your selections are placed in the cart in groups of valve+actuator (if any) + accessory (if any or many).
• The buttons Delete and Duplicate are addressing always such a "position-group".
• The button Edit takes you back to the accessory selection of the corresponding "position-group". Accessory may modified as you want. The connection of valve+actuator is fixed.
• Single lines may be removed by entering zero-Quantity.
• After modifying Quantity press recalculate to update the cart information on screen.
• The button print cart shows your positions adjusted to print out on A4-portrait.
• The print-cart format is also much more practical if you want to use the clipboard to copy the positions to another program like MS-Excel for further use.

Go on for next position by pressing Valves on the top menu.

Advanced hint: to get 2 positions with the same valve and actuator, just different accessory create the first position, then press duplicate on the first position and edit on the new position.