If you’d like us to ship a Flexim F601 Flow Meter into Canada …..
We’ve shipped HUNDREDS of our powerful Flexim F601 Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flowmeters into Canada.
We have TONs of experience with both Canada Customs and Duties and GST.
We’ll ship a meter directly to your job site, via FedEx International Express Overnight, with all the Customs/Duties and GST paperwork you’ll need to easily import and return our meter, with minimum cost and effort.
Unless your job site is extremely remote, we can usually have a meter sitting on your desk tomorrow morning.
If it takes additional days for the meter to arrive, we won’t charge for delays caused by Customs/Duties or GST.
Customs …..
We highly recommend you employ the services of a local Canadian Customs Agent to prepare your inbound Customs paperwork. FlowRental will deal directly with your Agent by providing them with Pro-Forma documents for both Importation and Exportation, thereby reducing your involvement and expense.
If you don’t already have a preferred Customs Agent, we’ve found that FedEx International provides this service at a very reasonable rate, on all their free shipping accounts. They’ll have the inbound Customs paperwork complete before their plane touches down in Canada, greatly reducing paperwork and delivery time.
Duties …..
All our meters cross the Canada/USA border “Duty Free” under Harmonizing Code #9026.10.20.40
You will NOT be charged “Duties” by anyone.
GST …..
Canadian “Goods and Services Tax” insists you pay GST on the “Replacement Cost” of the meter when it enters Canada. Don’t bother arguing with them, we’ve tried hundreds of times; you won’t win. However, this is not as horrible as it sounds.
When you ship the meter back to us, those fine people at GST will issue you a “credit” for the same amount they charged you for inbound, just a couple of days earlier. The outbound GST Credit cancels the inbound GST charge, and you end up owing zero GST.
All this paper shuffling will be handled by FlowRental and your preferred Canadian Customs Agent, or directly with your FedEx account. Either way, it happens without additional cost or your time. Just a bunch of unnecessary government paperwork.
If you have a preferred Customs Agent, FlowRental will provide them with detailed inbound and outbound documentation that will make their life easy and cost nearly nothing.
Download, complete and return our Rental Agreement Form, and we'll have a solution sitting on your desk tomorrow morning.
If you have any questions, please call our North American Headquarters at our toll free telephone number 866-337-4356, or email us at
FlowRental’s North American Warehouse is located at:
FlowRental Inc.
219 East Main St., Ste 117
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
USA, 17055
Phone: 717-697-8546
Cell: 717-514-4952
Fax: 717-697-2122
Contacts:
Mark Hill - President:
Jeff Daley - Technical Advisor:
Doppler or Transit-Time?
The question most Ultrasonic Flow Meter Operators ask themselves is ….. “Should I be using a Doppler or Transit-Time Flowmeter?” Unless you know the answer, your only solution is to carry a Clamp On Doppler Flow Meter in one hand and a Portable Transit-Time Flow Meter in the other, and hope for the best when you arrive at the job site.
Most ultrasonic flowmeters use either “Doppler” or “Transit-Time” technology to measure the velocity of fluids inside pipes. Without getting into a bunch of scientific mumbo-jumbo and long boring algorithms, the following discussions will help you understand the difference between Doppler Flow Meters and Transit Time Flow Meters, but in reality, you don’t have to worry because almost every portable ultrasonic flow meter rented by FlowRental is capable of operating in both Doppler and Transit Time Modes!
Take a look for yourself in the video on the right .....
Doppler
All Ultrasonic Doppler Flow Meters bounce signals off small particles or bubbles in the moving fluid, resulting in a “Doppler Shift” in the returned signal frequency. The flowmeter measures this frequency shift then calculates the resulting speed of the reflective particles, then multiplies that value by the internal diameter of the pipe to produce volumetric flow. A great discussion on Doppler Shift is presented by our friends at Wikipedia.
The only disadvantage of buying a Doppler Flow Meter is that it absolutely will not work if you don’t have enough sonically reflective particles in your flow stream. A number of nefarious Flow Meter manufacturers claim their flowmeters “enhance” the capabilities of Doppler Shift by employing hocus-pocus algorithms, but the bottom line is, if you don’t have something to bounce the signals off, you absolutely cannot make measurements based upon Doppler Shift technology. Period.
Take a look for yourself in the video on the right .....
Doppler or Transit-Time?
Our most popular Ultrasonic Flow Meter rentals are Transit Time flow meters (aka "Time of Flight" or "ΔT"), which depend upon the fluid being acoustically clean enough for signals to pass between two transducers. The time taken for signals to travel from one transducer to the other is compared against the time required for signals to travel in the opposite direction.
This difference in time (Transit-Time) is processed by a bunch of powerful algorithms to produce an accurate flow velocity. During the past 15 years, advancements in electronic filtering have helped some companies produce Transit-Time flow meters that can work in dirty liquids. FlowRental is one of those companies.
TTransit-Time is always more accurate and reliable than Doppler however Doppler tools may be less expensive.
Our Rental Plan .....
Download our Rental Agreement Form here
Read the details of our unique Rental Plan below and call us from anywhere in the USA or Canada with any questions you may have.
Rental Periods ....
We rent our Ultrasonic Flow Meters ....
BY THE DAY
WITH
NO CHARGE FOR WEEKENDS OR HOLIDAYS
..... from the time the flowmeter leaves our office until the time it returns. If you pick up a flowmeter one day and return it the next, you’ll be charged for one day. Our competitors charge by the week (7 billable days) and force you to pay in advance with your Credit Card. At FlowRental we’ll wait until your project is complete before sending you an invoice, with the courtesy of accepting your corporate PO or Credit Card.
Free Shipping or Lower Rates .....
Unfortunately we can’t offer free shipping simply because those great people at FedEx demand a BUNCH of money for their delivery services. So, guess who’s paying for shipping? Do you think that other rental companies are really giving you free shipping? Do you also believe in the Tooth Fairy? Unlike other companies, we don’t inflate our rental rates to hide shipping costs, and we’ll tell you up front what the “REAL” shipping charges are. We'll use your FedEx shipping account and have nothing to do with those charges, OR, we’ll use our FedEx account and add the cost of shipping onto your final invoice. In the end, there’s no such thing as Free Shipping (or the Tooth Fairy) …. only Lower Rental Costs.
Rental Rates ....
We rent two different ultrasonic flow meters, both manufactured by the world reknown Flexim Americas. Our single channel Portalok 7S rents for $125 per billable day and our Two Channel, Dual Mode (Doppler & Transit-Time) Fluxus F601 for all liquids, rents for $175 per billable week day. There are no charges for Energy Options and NO CHARGE FOR WEEKENDS or HOLIDAYS.
Company PO’s ....
We accept any company PO that details your Shipping and Billing information. Your PO will automatically set you up in our database, ready for any number of rentals.
Invoices or Credit Cards ....
We’ll accept your credit card (any type), but if you’d rather have a 30 day payment window, we’ll gladly send you an invoice. If your rental period goes beyond 4 weeks, you’ll automatically be invoiced for 20 billable days, and your rental period will start over for the next month, at exactly the same rates.
Multiple Flow Meters ....
If your project requires more than one Ultrasonic Flow Meter, give us a call and we’ll have your solution sitting on your desk, tomorrow morning.
Technical Support ....
We provide unlimited telephone support anywhere in North America. Give us a call from your job site and we'll help you solve any problem you encounter.
Give us a call at 717-697-8546 or 717-514-4952 from anywhere in the USA or Canada and your flow measurement problems will be resolved instantly.