A UV cure station that runs perfectly on the bench often becomes the bottleneck the moment it’s dropped into a line — not because the adhesive is wrong, but because a fixed-intensity lamp can’t be tuned to the belt speed the rest of the process demands. Incure’s CDM™ UV conveyor is built around that mismatch: one chassis, interchangeable lamp heads, and belt speed as the actual dose control.
One Chassis, Three Lamp Families
The CDM™ accepts UV LED flood heads (L64, L88), UV LED focused-beam heads (M51, M62), and conventional mercury-arc flood heads (F100, F200, F400, F500), so a facility standardizing on one conveyor platform isn’t locked into one lamp technology. LED configurations deliver stable output with no warm-up delay, which matters on start-stop production schedules where a mercury-arc bulb’s warm-up and cooldown cycle would otherwise dictate line pacing — a tradeoff covered in more detail in Incure’s comparison of UV LED flood and spot lamps. The M51 focused-beam head is the highest-intensity configuration on the platform at 6,150 mW/cm² at 365 nm, built for precision narrow adhesive-line curing rather than broad-area exposure, while the L88 flood head trades intensity for the widest usable footprint on the belt.
Belt Speed Is the Dose Control, Not an Afterthought
The CDM™ belt runs from 1.5 ft/min (slowest, highest dose) to 12.0 ft/min (fastest), with 6.0 ft/min as the nominal operating speed. Because dose scales directly with time under the lamp, slowing the belt is the standard response to a thick or deeply pigmented adhesive layer that isn’t reaching full cure at nominal speed, rather than swapping to a different lamp head entirely. Wavelength selection interacts with this the same way material selection does — an adhesive formulated for 365 nm won’t cure efficiently under an LED head tuned to 405 nm, a distinction Incure covers separately in its 365 vs 385 vs 395 vs 405 nm wavelength guide. Every configuration’s curing energy is calculated across all three reference speeds, so the same lamp head can be specified once and then tuned in the field as the adhesive layer thickness or line takt time changes.
Broadband x2AC vs. UVA-Only x2A
The F-series conventional flood heads ship in two configurations that aren’t interchangeable by output. x2AC is a single lamp assembly with one UVA tube and one UVC tube, producing broadband output that matches a mercury-arc spectrum — the configuration to specify if the adhesive process depends on UVC. x2A mounts two UVA-only heads in series on the belt, doubling the UV dose in a single pass at the same belt speed, but with no UVC component at all. F200x2A, for example, delivers 18,000 mJ/cm² at 1.5 ft/min against 9,000 mJ/cm² for F200x2AC at the same speed — real dose difference, not a rounding variance, so specifying the wrong one either under-cures a UVC-dependent adhesive or leaves dose capacity unused.
Email Us with your target belt speed, adhesive wavelength requirement, and part width, and Incure’s engineers can confirm the CDM™ lamp head configuration before you commit to a platform.
Part Width Sets the Lamp Head, Curing Height Sets the Platform
Maximum part width is fixed by lamp head, not adjustable after the fact: 1 inch on M51, 2 inches on M62, 4 inches on L64, 8 inches on L88/F100/F200, and 5 inches on F400/F500. Curing height follows a similar split — 0.5–2 inches on the LED and F100/F200 configurations, extending to 3.0–6.5 inches on F400/F500, which are the only heads available on both the standard CDM™ (9-inch polypropylene belt) and the CDM™ Compact (9-inch stainless-steel wire belt). The Compact’s wire belt matters specifically where a solid polypropylene surface would trap heat or residue against the part; everything else about dose and lamp behavior is identical between the two platforms.
Lamp Life and Line Control
UV LED heads (L64, L88, M51, M62) are rated past 20,000 hours with 20% or less intensity decay over that service life, effectively eliminating bulb replacement across the vast majority of a production line’s working life. Conventional mercury-arc heads are rated past 1,000 hours with up to 45% decay, a maintenance interval worth budgeting for separately if an F-series configuration is chosen for UVC compatibility. LED configurations also carry PLC, RS-232, and foot-switch control with switchable timer or continuous modes; F-series heads have no external control port and are built for manual or standalone operation rather than closed-loop line integration.
Where the CDM™ Fits on the Line
Inline PCB conformal coating, underfill encapsulant, and adhesive-dot cure are the most direct fit — belt speed sets dose per panel without a separate batch cure step, and the same electronics-assembly logic that favors one-part epoxy over hand-mixed two-part systems for robotic dispensing in electronics assembly applies just as directly to the cure step downstream of that dispense. Automotive electronics lines run ECU potting, sensor housing bonding, and connector sealing through the CDM™ because the LED heads’ no-warm-up output suits start-stop schedules better than a mercury-arc lamp waiting to reach temperature. Positioned downstream of a robotic pick-and-place cell, the conveyor synchronizes cure time to robot cycle time instead of creating a queue at a standalone cure station, and printing and packaging lines use the same belt-speed control to tune UV varnish gloss and cure depth across different substrate weights. Structural bonding on metal, composite, and plastic assemblies — the kind of joint work covered from the adhesive side in Incure’s guide to multi-substrate UV bonding grade selection — moves from an hours-long oven cure to a seconds-long conveyor pass without changing the underlying bond chemistry.
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