CLAMP-ON FLOW METER by Seztec USA +1 (832) 899-4040
Houston, Texas · shipping nationwide

Clamp-on flow meter rental

If you need the number once, you do not need to own the instrument. Seztec rents portable clamp-on flow meters from Houston to all fifty states — with the transducers sized to your pipe before the kit ships.

Rent when you need the number, not the instrument

A portable clamp-on flow meter is a capital purchase that many people only need for a week. If flow surveys are not part of what your team does routinely, renting is usually the correct financial answer — and we will tell you so rather than sell you an instrument you will use twice.

When renting is right

A one-off flow survey. You need flow rates from a set of pipes, once, for a report or a capital case.

Verifying a meter you have stopped trusting. Every plant has one. A clamp-on portable gives you an independent, non-invasive second opinion without taking the suspect meter out of service. Frequently a two-day job.

Troubleshooting. A pump that is not delivering. A line that might be partially blocked. A leak somewhere in a network that you can only find by metering successive segments.

Proving the technology before you buy. Legitimate and sensible. Rent the instrument, put it on the actual pipe, see whether you get a signal through your actual pipe wall. Cement-lined ductile iron is exactly the case where you want to find out before the purchase order, not after.

Commissioning and balancing. A defined project with a defined end date.

When you should buy instead

If flow surveys, meter verification, or energy audits are a recurring part of your work, buy. The METRI Ultra ProLite at $3,999 pays for itself against a handful of rentals, weighs 230 grams, and can live in a technician's bag rather than a locked cabinet. We would rather tell you that than rent you the same instrument four times.

Available for rental

Portable · transit-time

Ultraflux UF801-P Portable Clamp-On Flow Meter

The survey instrument. Data logger, automatic Reynolds detection, optional BTU energy kit, ±0.03 ft/s sensitivity for leak detection. 0.5″ to 390″.

Specifications
Portable · transit-time

Ultraflux Minisonic II P Portable Ultrasonic Flow Meter

Widest range in the fleet: 0.5″ to 393″. IP68. On-screen echo diagnostics.

Specifications
Portable · transit-time

METRI Ultra ProLite Portable Flow Meter

230 g, DN10–DN2000, signal oscilloscope, integral wall thickness gauge.

Specifications
Portable · Doppler

Compu-Flow C6 Portable Doppler Ultrasonic Flow Meter

For dirty fluid — sludge, slurry, raw wastewater. 0.5″ to 500″.

Specifications
Portable · area velocity

MSFM MCERTS Portable Area Velocity Flow Meter

MCERTS-accredited, battery-powered monitoring for partially full pipes and regulated discharge.

Specifications

Houston-based. Shipping to all fifty states.

Seztec USA rents from 12620 FM 1960 Rd W, Ste A4, Houston, Texas 77065.

Houston and the Gulf Coast

Local delivery and collection across Greater Houston — the Ship Channel, Baytown, Pasadena, Deer Park, Texas City, La Porte, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Katy, Galveston. If you are running a survey on a refinery or petrochemical unit on the Ship Channel, we are down the road, and we can be there.

Beaumont, Port Arthur, Lake Charles, Corpus Christi, Freeport, and the rest of the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor are routine for us.

Texas

Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Midland–Odessa and the Permian Basin, Lubbock, Amarillo.

Nationwide

We ship a configured, transducer-matched rental kit anywhere in the United States. Most of the continental US is one to two days in transit.

Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

We size the transducers before it ships

This is the part that goes wrong with rental instruments from companies that just put a box in a truck. Transducer frequency has to match pipe size — low frequency penetrates further, high frequency resolves better on small bores. Send the wrong transducer to a 2″ line and the customer gets no signal and concludes the technology does not work.

So we ask for pipe size, pipe material, wall thickness, lining, and fluid before the kit leaves Houston. It is thirty seconds of questions that prevents a wasted week.

What we need to know when you book

  1. Pipe outside diameter and wall thickness (measured, not from a drawing, if you can)
  2. Pipe material — and the lining, if any. Cement-mortar-lined ductile iron is the case we most need to know about.
  3. The fluid. Clean or dirty. And does it change?
  4. Fluid temperature — this decides the couplant grade, and the wrong grade fails halfway through your survey.
  5. How much straight run you have. 10 diameters upstream, 5 down, 30 after a pump.
  6. How long you need it.

If you are not sure about any of these, call and we will work through it. +1 (832) 899-4040

Frequently asked questions

Where do you ship rentals?

All fifty states, from Houston. Gulf Coast metros are typically next-day; most of the continental US is one to two days. Houston-area customers can collect from our facility at 12620 FM 1960 Rd W.

What comes in the rental kit?

Everything needed to take a reading: transmitter, matched transducer pair sized for your pipe, cables, mounting rail or strap kit, coupling gel, tape measure, batteries or charger, and a hard carry case. We size the transducers to your pipe before it ships — which is why we ask for pipe details when you book.

How long is the minimum rental?

Ask us. Short survey work and longer study deployments are both normal. Tell us how long you actually need it and we will quote that, not a package that does not fit.

Can rental credit apply to a purchase?

Ask when you book. If the survey turns into a permanent installation, tell us that up front — it changes the conversation.

Do you provide training?

Yes. A clamp-on meter in untrained hands produces confident, precise, wrong numbers — and that is worse than no meter. We walk you through pipe entry, transducer placement, straight-run requirements, and how to read signal quality before you trust the flow rate.

Should I rent or buy?

Rent if you need the number once and have no ongoing use. Buy if flow surveys, meter verification, or energy audits are part of what your team does routinely — at which point the METRI Ultra ProLite at $3,999 pays for itself against a handful of rentals. We will tell you honestly which one you are.

Book a rental

Send us pipe size, material, wall thickness, lining, fluid, and how long you need it. We will size the transducers, confirm it will work on your pipe, and get it out of Houston.

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