Kronos Class S autoclave, 6 litres

The Kronos S 6 litre is the autoclave for those who sterilise a little at a time and have little room on the worktop. It works in Class S: one vacuum before the steam and one after, for drying. It is the right choice for solid instruments, simple hollow instruments and small porous loads, wrapped or unwrapped; narrow-lumen hollow instruments, multiple wrapping and normal porous loads need a Class B instead.

Five programmes cover everyday work in a beauty salon, a small podiatry practice or a tattoo studio. The door closes with a motor and stays locked under vacuum for the whole cycle; a conductivity meter checks the water quality at every load and shows it on the display, and the autoclave tells you when maintenance is due.

Every cycle comes out of the built-in printer, ready for the logbook. In the version with internal data logger cycles are also saved to a USB stick and can be read on the computer with the software supplied.

Features

• Class S with pre- and post-vacuum
• 5 preset sterilisation programmes
• Bowie & Dick and vacuum leak test programmes
• Motorised closing with the door locked under vacuum
• Conductivity meter for water quality
• Built-in thermal printer and multilingual four-button display
• Test result memory (Memory Test System)
• Front pump: fills from a canister on the floor at the press of a button
• Extra drying of 5 or 15 minutes, standby after 60 minutes and delayed start
• Connection for an external data logger

Programmes

• Wrapped hollow instruments: 30 min at 134 °C, 40 min at 121 °C
• Porous loads: 35 min at 134 °C, 45 min at 121 °C
• Rapid, for unwrapped solid instruments: 27 min at 134 °C
• Bowie & Dick test: 35 min
• Vacuum leak test: 15 min

Times include preheating and drying and vary with the load and the power supply.

Technical data

• 6-litre chamber, ø 170 × 265 mm, AISI 304 steel
• Maximum load: 1 kg wrapped, 1.8 kg unwrapped, 0.5 kg porous
• 3 aluminium trays: one 150 × 240 × 19 mm and two 115 × 240 × 19 mm
• External dimensions 450 × 590 × 345 mm (width × depth × height), weight 42.5 kg
• Clearance to open the door: 350 mm
• 4-litre tanks for clean and used water
• Power supply 230 V, 50–60 Hz, power 1,500 W

Included

• 3 aluminium trays with tray holder and handle to remove them
• Water fill and drain hoses, sponge

Versions

• Internal data logger: records every cycle on a USB stick, to download to the computer