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						| The non-contact 
						open measuring systems are for high displacement 
						velocities and high accuracies, commonly used in clean environments.
 Non-contact open encoders rely on the air gap between 
						the encoder head and scale to be uniform over the 
						measuring range. The flatness of the mounting surface 
						and the parallelism of the machine guideway is 
						important.
 Depending on the version of the measuring system, two 
						different measuring scales are available:
 glass (partially ROBAX glassceramic) or steel .
   
							
								
									| System resolution
 | Measuring scale, Special
 | Overall size | Type/Series |  
								| 5 µm to 0,05 µm | steel tape scale | small version | MS 30 series |  
								| 100 µm to 0,1 µm | glass scale or steel tape scale | compact version | MS 50 series |  
								| 10 µm to 0,1 µm | glass scale or steel tape scale | flat version | MS 61 series |  
								| 0,1 µm to 0,01 µm | glass scale | small version | MS 
								80 |  
								| 2 µm to 0,1 µm | glass panel | small version | TDE 60 |  
								| 1,25 µm to 0,1 µm | steel tape scale on steel 
								carrier guided by ball bearings
 | small version | MSG 10 |  |  
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