Description
The Evident Vanta Core handheld XRF analyzer with Alloy Plus Mode is a professional metals identification system built for fabrication shops, welding operations, manufacturers, metal service centers, and industrial facilities that need fast and reliable alloy identification.
Equipped with a 50 kV X-ray tube, silver (Ag) anode, silicon drift detector (SDD), inline aiming camera, 3 mm X-ray spot collimator, and 5 megapixel panoramic sample camera, this Vanta Core is configured for much more than basic metal sorting. It can identify virtually all major industrial alloy families encountered in modern fabrication and manufacturing, while providing the precision needed to target welds and other small features.
The analyzer's fully customizable grade library allows users to add, remove, and modify alloy grades to match the materials actually used in their operation. For smaller components and controlled testing, the analyzer is also compatible with the Vanta Workstation, allowing the same XRF to transition from handheld shop-floor testing to a stable, enclosed testing configuration.
For companies that need one XRF for incoming inspection, alloy verification, PMI, fabrication, weld chemistry verification, and final quality control, the Vanta Core provides an exceptionally flexible industrial metals platform.
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Identify Virtually All Major Industrial Alloy Families
The Vanta Core with Alloy Plus provides broad elemental coverage designed to identify the industrial metals commonly encountered throughout fabrication, manufacturing, maintenance, and material processing.
Alloy Plus measures: Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, W, Hf, Ta, Re, Pb, Bi, Zr, Nb, Mo, Pd, Ag, Cd, Sn, Sb
This broad elemental range allows the Vanta Core to identify and differentiate virtually all major XRF-identifiable industrial alloy families, including stainless steels, low-alloy and specialty steels, nickel alloys, cobalt alloys, copper alloys, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys, zirconium alloys, and many other engineering metals.
For a fabrication operation handling a wide variety of materials, this means one analyzer can be used across an exceptionally broad alloy inventory rather than being dedicated to a narrow group of metals.
Built for Fabrication & Welding
Material verification can be important at virtually every stage of fabrication—from receiving raw stock through cutting, machining, welding, assembly, and final inspection.
The Vanta Core provides a fast, nondestructive way to verify material directly on the shop floor without removing a sample and waiting for laboratory results.
Typical applications include incoming material inspection, alloy identification, positive material identification (PMI), material segregation, fabrication verification, weld chemistry testing, finished assembly inspection, and outgoing quality control.
Plate, pipe, tube, bar, fittings, fasteners, welds, machined components, and completed assemblies can all be analyzed directly with the handheld XRF.
3 mm Collimator for Precise Weld Testing
One of the most important features of this Vanta Core configuration is its 3 mm X-ray spot collimator.
The Vanta Core normally analyzes an approximately 8 mm spot, providing a larger measurement area for fast alloy identification on plate, pipe, bar stock, and other industrial metals. When greater precision is required, the integrated collimator reduces the X-ray spot size from approximately 8 mm to 3 mm.
This smaller 3 mm measurement area allows the operator to more precisely target the material being analyzed and is particularly useful when testing welds, filler material, small components, narrow features, adjacent alloys, and localized areas of fabricated assemblies where the standard 8 mm spot could incorporate surrounding material.
Precision Camera Targeting for Welds and Small Features
The Vanta Core includes an inline micro aiming camera that makes it easy to precisely position the analyzer over welds, small components, and other specific areas of interest.
The live camera image is displayed directly on the Vanta's screen with an on-screen targeting circle showing where the X-ray beam will hit the sample. Instead of estimating the measurement location, the operator can position the targeting circle directly over the weld or feature they want to analyze before beginning the test.
This becomes particularly valuable when using the 3 mm collimated X-ray spot. The combination of the smaller measurement area and visual targeting allows operators to isolate specific areas while reducing the amount of surrounding material included in the measurement. For weld testing, this makes it easier to target the weld itself, filler material, or adjacent base metal with greater precision.
The Vanta Core also includes a 5 megapixel macro camera for capturing a wider view of the sample and documenting the material being tested. Together, the micro aiming camera, on-screen beam targeting, 3 mm collimator, and macro camera provide an intuitive system for both precise XRF positioning and visual test documentation.
Fully Customizable Alloy Grade Library
An alloy analyzer is only as useful as its ability to recognize the materials relevant to your operation.
The Vanta Core's grade library is fully customizable, allowing organizations to tailor the analyzer around their own material requirements.
Users can add custom alloy grades, modify existing grade specifications, remove unnecessary grades, and build libraries around the specific materials encountered within their facility.
This can be particularly valuable for fabrication shops and manufacturers working with customer-specific material specifications, proprietary alloys, specialized grades, restricted material lists, or a relatively small group of approved alloys.
Instead of forcing every operator to work from the same generic alloy database, the Vanta can be configured around the materials and identification requirements of the operation.
Light Element Analysis for Advanced Alloy Sorting
The Vanta Core with Alloy Plus provides advanced light-element analysis for industrial alloy identification, measuring important elements including Mg, Al, Si, P, and S in addition to the transition and heavy elements used for conventional alloy identification.
This capability significantly expands the range of materials the Vanta Core can identify and separate. In addition to identifying aluminum and magnesium alloys, sulfur measurement can help differentiate 303 from 304 stainless steel and identify other free-machining and high-sulfur steels where sulfur is an important part of the alloy chemistry.
The ability to measure light elements also provides additional information for differentiating alloys where magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, or sulfur are important to grade identification. This makes Alloy Plus particularly valuable for fabrication shops, metal service centers, manufacturers, and other facilities handling a diverse mix of industrial metals.
Combined with its high-performance silicon drift detector (SDD) and broad Alloy Plus elemental range, the Vanta Core provides the analytical capability needed to identify virtually all major industrial alloy families, from aluminum and magnesium alloys to stainless steels, nickel alloys, cobalt alloys, titanium alloys, copper alloys, and specialty metals.
Positive Material Identification (PMI)
The Vanta Core can be incorporated into positive material identification (PMI) programs where manufacturers, fabricators, and industrial facilities need to verify that specified materials have actually been used.
The same analyzer can follow material throughout the fabrication process.
- Receiving: Verify incoming plate, pipe, tube, fittings, bar stock, and other materials.
- Inventory: Identify unknown metals and prevent material mix-ups.
- Fabrication: Confirm material before cutting, machining, welding, or assembly.
- Welding: Use the camera and 3 mm collimator to target precise locations when elemental verification of a weld or surrounding material is required.
- Quality Control: Verify components and fabricated assemblies before release.
- Outgoing Inspection: Confirm material requirements before products leave the facility.
This allows material verification to become part of the production workflow rather than a separate laboratory process.
Compatible with the Vanta Workstation
The Vanta Core is also compatible with the Vanta Workstation, expanding the analyzer beyond conventional handheld testing.
The workstation provides a stable testing configuration for small parts, fasteners, weld coupons, machined components, metal samples, and other items that may be difficult or inconvenient to analyze while holding the XRF by hand.
This is particularly useful for fabrication shops because the same analyzer can serve two different roles.
Use the Vanta Core as a handheld XRF for plate, pipe, fabricated assemblies, incoming material, and large components on the shop floor.
Then connect the analyzer to a Vanta Workstation when working with smaller components or when a stable testing configuration is preferred.
Rather than purchasing separate handheld and benchtop systems for different types of samples, organizations can use the same Vanta Core across a much broader range of industrial metals applications.
Material Verification Where It Matters
A material mix-up becomes more expensive the further it travels through production. Identifying the wrong alloy at receiving is an inconvenience. Finding it after machining, welding, assembly, or delivery can mean scrap, rework, production delays, and difficult conversations with customers.
The Vanta Core gives fabrication and manufacturing teams the ability to verify material at the point where the decision is being made. Check incoming stock before it enters inventory, confirm material before expensive fabrication begins, investigate an undocumented component, target a weld or small feature, or perform a final material verification before an assembly leaves the facility.
Because testing is fast and nondestructive, XRF can become part of the normal production and quality workflow rather than something reserved only for unusual material problems.
For shops working with multiple stainless steels, nickel alloys, aluminum alloys, specialty metals, and customer-specified materials, the Vanta Core provides something especially valuable: confidence that the material being fabricated is the material it is supposed to be.
What's Included
This Vanta Core is configured as a complete professional alloy identification package for fabrication, welding, and industrial metals testing.
- Evident Vanta Core handheld XRF analyzer
- Alloy Plus analytical mode with light-element analysis
- Standard 8 mm X-ray measurement spot, collimatable down to 3 mm for precision testing
- Inline micro sample camera with on-screen targeting for precise positioning of the X-ray beam
- 5 megapixel macro sample camera for sample viewing and test documentation
- Hard transport case
- Two rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
- Battery charger
- AC power adapter
- 316 stainless steel calibration check coupon
- Alloy Geek virtual operator training
The Vanta Core is also compatible with the Vanta Workstation, available separately, for customers who want a stable testing configuration for small parts, components, and other precision XRF work.
Evident Vanta Core Warranty
New Vanta Core analyzers include Evident's three-year end-to-end analyzer warranty and five-year X-ray tube warranty, subject to Evident's warranty terms and exclusions, including exclusions for negligent damage.
For an instrument designed to work directly on the shop floor, this provides additional protection for an important piece of inspection and quality-control equipment.
Why Choose the Vanta Core for Fabrication?
The Vanta Core with Alloy Plus is built for shops that need to do more than simply sort stainless steel. It provides the flexibility to identify virtually all major industrial alloy families, verify incoming materials, differentiate light-element and high-sulfur alloys, and precisely target welds and small components with a single handheld analyzer.
For fabrication and manufacturing operations, that means fewer questions about unknown material, faster verification when something doesn't look right, and the ability to catch costly material mix-ups before additional time and labor are invested.
With a fully customizable grade library, precision 3 mm targeting, dual cameras, and Vanta Workstation compatibility, the Vanta Core can be configured around the materials your shop actually works with and used from receiving through final quality control.
It's a professional alloy identification system designed to become part of the fabrication workflow—not just another inspection tool sitting in the quality lab.
XRF Support from Alloy Geek
Buying the right XRF is only part of putting an alloy identification program into practice. Your operators also need to know how to use it effectively for the materials and applications they encounter every day.
That's why this Vanta Core includes Alloy Geek virtual operator training. We'll help your team get familiar with the analyzer, Alloy Plus, grade identification, testing practices, and the features they'll actually use on the shop floor.
Alloy Geek specializes specifically in handheld XRF analyzers and their applications. Whether you're setting up the Vanta for incoming material verification, alloy sorting, weld testing, or fabrication quality control, you'll be working with a company that understands the equipment and how it's used.
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