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Oil filters are a wealth of information. They can provide important clues about the health of your machines and your oil. This 1-minute, 28-second video explains how you can analyze your oil filters and what you should be looking for to ensure better machine reliability. 

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1. It's true that particles that are removed from oil will reduce the effectiveness of oil analysis to detect failure. There are many oil filters in WUZHOU KINGDA, if you are inetrested in our products, please feel free to contact us!

2. Oil analysis cannot detect particles that aren’t there. Nevertheless, most particles that are removed by oil filters and centrifugal separators (or centrifuges) are too large to be seen by many oil analysis instruments such as spectrometers. 

3. Spectrometers are biased toward smaller particles in the range of 3 microns or less. This is much smaller than the majority of particles trapped by these filters or centrifuges, which typically are around 10 microns or larger. 

4. However, larger particles that are trapped by oil filters or centrifuges are important as well and can be more closely associated with advanced wear. Filter debris analysis provides one possible method for this type of analysis.

5. Several larger commercial laboratories offer this service where a swatch of contaminant-filled filter media can be analyzed.