Spider MAGIC® Model 810

Particle Mobility Spectrometer

Spider MAGIC® combines a compact radial-flow Differential Mobility Analyzer with a MAGIC water-based Condensation Particle Counter.

Spider 810 spec sheet

Components:

  • Spider radial-flow Differential Mobility Analyzer

  • MAGIC water-based Condensation Particle Counter

  • Dual-polarity high-voltage supply

  • Optional Po-210 charge-conditioner

  • Software for data acquisition, inversion & plotting

 

Operating parameters:

Aerosol Flow:
0.20 – 0.30 L/min
Sheath Flow:
0.90 – 4.50 L/min
Sample pressure:
600 – 1000 mbar
Sizing resolution:
3 – 15
HV supply:
-5000 V – +5000 V
Size Range:
9.5 – 500 nm @ R = 3
5.0 – 185 nm @ R = 12
Operating modes:
Scanning | Stepping | Static Classifier
Time resolution:
30 sec over full size range
Size:
Mass: 5 kg
H×W×D: 25 cm × 25 cm × 30 cm

Publications

Justin D. Hamlin, Raymond J. Leibensperger III, Jena K. Herbst, M. Dale Stokes, Grant B. Deane, Christopher Lee, Meinrat O. Andreae, and Kimberly A. Prather. 2026. “Evaluation of a Portable Spider-MAGIC and OPS for Unified Size Distribution Measurements.” Aerosol Science and Technology, September, 1–17. doi:10.1080/02786826.2026.2724025.

Stavros Amanatidis, Yuanlong Huang, Buddhi Pushpawela, Benjamin C. Schulze, Christopher M. Kenseth, Ryan X. Ward, John H. Seinfeld, Susanne V. Hering, and Richard C. Flagan. 2021. “Efficacy of a portable, moderate-resolution, fast-scanning differential mobility analyzer for ambient aerosol size distribution measurements.” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14 (6): 4507–4516. https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/14/4507/2021/

Stavros Amanatidis, Changhyuk Kim, Steven R. Spielman, Gregory S. Lewis, Susanne V. Hering, and Richard C. Flagan. 2020. “The Spider DMA: A Miniature Radial Differential Mobility Analyzer.” Aerosol Science and Technology, 54 (2): 175–89. doi:10.1080/02786826.2019.1626974.