The Instrumentation Division of Lightning Electrical Construction Limited offers and provides a complete and comprehensive Service predominantly within the Power, Nuclear, Oil, Gas, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Water, Food, Continuous and Blending Process Industries.

The Company’s Instrumentation Service is mainly within the Process Control and Automation sector of the Industry, and provides expertise from the Conceptual Design phase through to the Instrument Installation, including:

Process tubing
Pneumatic tubing.
Electrical works
Field instrumentation calibrations
Equipment inspection and specification checks
Instrument loop-checks (or pre-commissioning and start-up).

The Company is an active member of the Energy Industries Council Contractors Instrumentation Technical Committee and a companion Company to the Institute of Measurement and Control.
In general terms the Company has comprehensive experience and expertise of the majority of the Industry's major Control Systems, which includes:

1.   DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS (“DCS”) (with I/O counts up to 7,000) 
      Typical Manufacturers include:   

2.   PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS (“PLC’s”) (with an I/O count up to 4,000)
      Used on applications for Emergency Shutdown (ESD), SCADA, Fire and Gas, complex and sequence
      controllers.  Typical Manufacturers include: 

3.   FIELD INSTRUMENTS
      The types of field Instruments generally connected to the above systems include:

3.2   LEVEL
       Conductivity
       Capacitance
       DP transmitters
       Back pressure
       Ultrasonic
       Linear displacement
       Float operated

3.3  PRESSURE       
       Gauges
       Switches
       Regulators
       Pneumatic Transducers
       Electronic Transducers
       Vacuum

3.4   TEMPERATURE
       Bi-metallic and filled system Indicators
       Resistance Bulb
       Transmitters
       Switches 
       Thermocouple and Accessories

3.5   VALVES           
        Ball
        Gate
        Butterfly
        Globe
        Multi-way
        Self-acting
        Plug
        Relief and Safety
        Actuators including Pneumatic, Solenoid, Hydraulic and Electric

3.6   GENERAL       
        Controllers
        Recorders
        Alarm Systems Analysers
        Machine monitoring
  
4.   INSTRUMENTATION EXPERIENCE
      Instrumentation works undertaken by the Company and Instrumentation experience including Hazardous Area
       works includes: