C3™ Submersible Fluorometer
The C3™ Submersible Fluorometer can be configured with one, two or three optical sensors ranging from the deep ultraviolet to the infrared spectrum. Internal memory storage capacity combined with an external submersible lithium ion battery allows the C3™ to run during extended or short-term deployments. Each C3™ comes with a factory-installed temperature sensor. Optional factory-installed depth sensors and mechanical wipers are also available. The durable delrin housing is highly resistant to harsh environments. Antifouling copper tape pieces are included for placement on the C3™ optical head to reduce bio-fouling on and around the sensors. C-Soft
Windows™ based software allows for intuitive calibration, datalogging set-up and file management capabilities as well as digital or analog data integration.
Product Highlights: One, Two or Three Optical Sensors
Temperature Sensor Included
Optional Depth Sensor
Optional 3-Brush Mechanical Wiper
All Plastic Housing
Robust Memory – Over 64,000 Data Lines!
Easy to Use Software with Data Management Capabilities
Optional C-ray Deployment Body Enables Horizontal Towing
C-FINS Integration with ArcGIS®
Integrate with VideoRay Pro 4 Submersible ROV
Product Highlights:
- Specs
- Documentation & Tech Notes
- Presentations & Case Studies
- Accessories/Spares
- Related Products
- News
- Purchase
- FAQ
- Video
- Software/Firmware
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Specifications
| Application | Minimum Detection Limit | Dynamic Range |
| CDOM/FDOM | 0.15 ppb** 0.5 ppb*** |
0-1250 ppb** 0-5000 ppb*** |
| Chlorophyll in vivo |
0.025 μg/L | 0-500 μg/L |
| Fluorescein Dye | 0.01 ppb | 0-500 ppb |
| Oil - Crude | 0.2 ppb*** | 0-2700 ppb*** |
| Oil - Fine | 10 ppb* 10 ppm**** |
>10,000 ppb* >100 ppm**** |
| Optical Brighteners | 0.6 ppb*** | 0-15,000 ppb*** |
| Phycocyanin (Freshwater Cyanobacteria) |
2 ppbPC | 0-40,000 ppbPC |
| Phycoerythrin (Marine Cyanobacteria) |
0.15 ppbPE | 0-750 ppbPE |
| PTSA Dye | 0.1 ppb*** | 0-650 ppb*** |
| Rhodamine Dye | 0.01 ppb | 0-1000 ppb |
| Tryptophan | 3 ppb | >20,000 ppb |
| Turbidity | 0.05 NTU | 0-3000 NTU |
| * 1,5 Napthalene Disulfonic Disodium Salt ** Quinine Sulfate *** PTSA (1,3, 6, 8 - Pyrenetetrasulfonic Acid Tetrasodium Salt) **** BTEX (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylenes) PC Phycocyanin pigment from Prozyme diluted in Deionized water PE Phycoerythrin pigment from Prozyme diluted in Deionized water |
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| C3 Physical Specifications | |
| Weight in Air | 1.64 kg; 3.6 lbs |
| Length | 23 cm; 9.1 in |
| Diameter | 10 cm; 3.9 in |
| Material | Delrin Plastic |
| Temperature | -2 to 50 degrees C. |
| Depth | 0 to 600 meters |
| C3 Electrical Specifications | |
| Output | Digital (ASCII); Analog (0 to 5 volt) - optional |
| Interface | RS232 Interface |
| Minimum Sample Interval | 1 Second |
| Minimum Power Supply | 8 to 30 volts; 5 watts |
| Maximum Current Draw at 12 volts | |
| - operational - sleep mode |
200 mA 3 mA |
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Documentation & Tech Notes
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• Datasheet
• User Manual
• Quick Start Guide
• Optical Specification Guide
• Cable Guide
• Battery Life Calculator
• Effects of Antifouling Copper Tape on Bio-Fouling
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• Datasheet
• User Manual
• Quick Start Guide
• Optical Specification Guide
• Cable Guide
• Battery Life Calculator
• Effects of Antifouling Copper Tape on Bio-Fouling
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Presentations
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• SMART Protocol
• Turner Designs' Fluorometric Integrated Nautical Mapping System (C-FINS) - Presented at CERF 2011
• C-FINS Fluorometric Integrated Nautical Mapping System Presentation - Presented at Ocean Business 2011
• C3 Submersible Fluorometer Presentation
• Using Turner Designs' C3 Submersible or PhytoFlash Active Fluorometers for In Vivo Monitoring of Algal Fluorescence
• In Situ Measurements Versatility of the C3 Submersible Fluorometer
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Case Studies
Documents are in PDF format, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer or in your browser to view these downloads. Click here to download Adobe Reader for free.
• SMART Protocol
• Turner Designs' Fluorometric Integrated Nautical Mapping System (C-FINS) - Presented at CERF 2011
• C-FINS Fluorometric Integrated Nautical Mapping System Presentation - Presented at Ocean Business 2011
• C3 Submersible Fluorometer Presentation
• Using Turner Designs' C3 Submersible or PhytoFlash Active Fluorometers for In Vivo Monitoring of Algal Fluorescence
• In Situ Measurements Versatility of the C3 Submersible Fluorometer
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Case Studies
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C3s travel from San Francisco to Australia
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A personal watercraft-based system for coastal open mapping
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Fluorescent Dye Tracer Tests and Hydrogeology near the Malad Gorge State Park
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In Situ Fluorometry and SMART Protocol
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Water Column Characterization Using a C3 Submersible Fluorometer
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Accessories & Spare Parts
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C3 Submersible Fluorometer News
Turner Designs News – March 2013
Another 6 months have flown by and it’s time to touch base with you, our wonderful customers. It’s always amazing how quickly time passes and a challenge to pick the highlights to tell you. Posting news on our Web pages, Facebook & Twitter reaches many of you, but for others our newsletter is when you hear our updates. Hopefully you’ll find the news we’re sharing to be useful. We like ...
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Press Release: Cyclops Fluorometers easily integrated into AUVs, Gliders and Floats
Turner Designs’ new Cyclops Integrator enables easy system integration of our popular Cyclops Submersible Fluorometers and Turbidimeter into AUVs, gliders, floats and other platforms. One, two, or three optical sensors with configurations ranging from deep UV to IR along with the Cyclops Integrator electronics can be fastened to an optical head defined by the customer and ready for integration. ...
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Article: A personal watercraft-based system for coastal open mapping
Learn how Bret Webb, University of South Alabama, is using the Turner Designs C3 Submersible Fluorometer with CDOM/FDOM, refined fuels and crude oil optics as part of a personal watercraft-based system for coastal open mapping. - Download article published in Journal of Ocean Technology
Turner Designs C3 Fluorometer spots Chlorophyll Bloom in the Equatorial Pacific
Turner Designs C3 Fluorometers are installed on the Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders presently traveling from Hawaii to Australia. On June 20th, the leading glider encountered an increase in chlorophyll and on June 26th, the trailing glider confirmed it. Distance traveled since the initial response shows the bloom to be over 300 miles. For more information on the data from the PacX journey visit the ...
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Press Release: Antifouling Copper Tape now available for C3 Submersible Fluorometers
Copper is highly effective for minimizing bio-fouling of substrates. Turner Designs now offers Antifouling Copper Tape pieces designed for optimal coverage of our C3 Submersible Fluorometer optical heads to reduce bio-fouling on and around the sensors. The combination of the antifouling copper tape used together with our 3-brush mechanical wiper provides the most efficient reduction in ...
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Press Release: UV Solid Secondary Standards now available for C3 Submersible Fluorometers
We now have UV Solid Secondary Standards for our C3 Submersible Fluorometers. Instrumentation configured for UV analyses typically rely on the use of liquid standards, such as Quinine Sulfate, for ensuring instrument integrity. However, transporting and preparing liquid standards can be tedious and sometimes hazardous. The UV Solid Secondary Standard is compact, light weight, and safe to use ...
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Real-time Mapping and Data Integration with the C3 Submersible Fluorometer
Whether you’re involved with a dye, algal, or coastal contamination study, data mapping is a powerful way to present and analyze your data. Quick and efficient visual indications of fluorescence, position and depth enable researchers to make real-time adjustments allowing for more precise, focused field-work and data collection. In order to facilitate real-time data collection, Turner Designs re ...
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Happy Birthday, Turner Designs
Turner Designs is celebrating our 40th anniversary on February 18, 2012. We feel proud knowing we continue to offer great instruments and supportive service to a wonderful customer base after 40 years of business. Thank you to all our customers for keeping us strong after all these years together.
General Announcement: Free Ground Shipping Offer Extended
We're happy to announce that we will continue to offer free ground shipping on all orders >$500 within the continental US through 2012.
New Student Travel Stipend Awards Program
Turner Designs is excited to announce we are now granting travel stipend awards to students who present a paper or poster referencing their use of Turner Designs equipment. This opportunity is separate from our instrument donation program which will continue to award AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer/Turbidimeters biannually in July and December.
Press Release: Liquid Robotics PacX Challenge
On November 17th, 2011, in San Francisco, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave Gliders that will travel the longest distance at sea ever completed by an unmanned marine vehicle. The robots will travel together to Hawaii and then take separate routes across the Pacific, one pair arriving in Japan and the other in Australia. While at sea, the Wave Gliders will be routed across regions never before rem ...
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Article: A slick solution for tracking oil spills
Oil spill tracking and dispersant monitoring have been a concern for many years, but they come to the forefront of attention when there is a major occurrence such as the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Spill. Fluorometry has been used for years as a tool to aid in oil spill tracking and during the incident several government agencies, universities, and consulting groups relied upon fluorometers t ...
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Press Release: Introducing C-FINS for real-time mapping of C3 Submersible Fluorometer data
C-FINS (Fluorometric Integrated Nautical Mapping System), integrating the C3 Submersible Fluorometer’s digital output with GPS data for data mapping. A simple software module enables C-FINS and ArcGIS® to work together allowing for real-time mapping of fluorescence, temperature, depth, and turbidity. The ability to capture and integrate these data reliably using the C-FINS package is an excitin ...
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Press Release: Turner Designs and VideoRay LLC Integrate Fluorometer and VideoRay Micro-ROV
Fluorometer and ROV combination gives researchers important new tool for Oil Spill Analysis
In response to rapidly growing demand for highly portable and adaptable methods for measuring water quality and oil pollution – particularly in conjunction with the impact of oil spills on marine habitats – VideoRay and Turner Designs announce the integration of the industry-standard Turner Designs C3 ...
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An FOSC’s Guide to NOAA Scientific Support
This “FOSC’s Guide to NOAA Scientific Support” provides a quick reference to the range of scientific support services available through NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration, Emergency Response Division (ERD, commonly called “NOAA Hazmat”).
Web link: http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/FOSC_Guide.pdf
Video: U.S. Coast Guard SMART Team
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Kurt Stricklen and crew, members of a Coast Guard Special Monitoring of Applied Response Technologies (SMART) team, collect oiled water samples in the Gulf of Mexico using the C3 Submersible Fluorometer. The team of specialists in oil-spill and hazardous substance monitoring use state-of-the-art technology to gather samples and field data which help environmenta ...
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Article: Seakeepers Society Using the C3 Multi-Sensor Platform to Track the Gulf Spill
The Seakeepers Society has integrated our C3 Submersible Fluorometer configured with oil optics with their SeaKeeper 1000 oceanographic and atmospheric data acquisition system to track the Gulf Spill. Read the article "USA Seakeepers' detection technology embraced for Gulf crisis" published on BYM Marine Environment News.
Press Release: New Refined Fuels Submersible Fluorometers
Turner Designs now offers Deep UV Optical sensors for detection of Refined Fuels and Oils. Recent developments in LED technology allow for excitation wavelengths down to 260nm. Using BTEX as the standard, the sensors are able to detect as low as 0.1ppm and have a dynamic range of 0 -2500 ppm. Both the Cyclops-7 and C3 Submersible Fluorometers can be purchased with Deep UV optics offering some of t ...
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Video: C3 Submersible Fluorometer Feature on NBC News
Our C3 Submersible Fluorometer was featured on the 6 o'clock news on NBC last week.
Watch the video
Silicon Valley Tech Tracking Gulf Oil Spill - NBC News
They look like tools your plumber might be using, or maybe someone coming to check your energy meter. Instead, these small devices could very well play a role in the biggest oil spill disaster we've ever seen.
Press Release: Free Shipping and Handling Offer
We're offering FREE ground shipping and handling on all orders >$500 shipping within the continental US though 2010. Request a quote
Press Release: Fluorometers Specifically Configured to Detect Crude Oil for Tracking the Gulf Oil Spill
Turner Designs is providing in situ and Laboratory Fluorometers specifically configured to detect Crude Oil for tracking the Gulf Oil spill. Equipment being deployed includes the C3 Submersible Fluorometer, as specified in the USCG SMART protocol; the Cyclops-7 Submersible Crude Oil sensor with the DataBank, our handheld datalogger; and the Trilogy Laboratory Fluorometer for discr ...
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Turner Designs is on Facebook!
We’ll be posting new product announcements and hope to see lots of comments from all our friends. We included a museum of instrumentation showing 38 years of our fluorometers in use -- please upload your photos showing our instruments in action. Under Discussions, we encourage your input on additional applications or future instrumentation you’d like us to provide. Please find us on Facebook t ...
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Press Release: Deep UV Optics now available for C3 Submersible Fluorometer
Turner Designs now offers a Deep UV Optical Kit for their C3 Submersible Fluorometer which enables detection of Refined Oils and Fuels. Recent developments in LED technology allow for excitation wavelengths down to 260nm. Using BTEX as the standard, the C3 is able to detect as low as 0.1ppm over a dynamic range >2500ppm.
The C3 Submersible Fluorometer is designed to incorporate up to three opt ...
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Press Release: C3 Submersible Fluorometer now has Analog Output
The Turner Designs C3 Submersible Fluorometer is now available with an Analog Output Adapter which outputs a 0-5 VDC signal for 1, 2, or 3 channels depending on the C3 configuration. The adapter enables integration with CTDs or any dataloggers that accept a 0-5 VDC signal. It plugs directly into the C3 and is securely held in place by the battery bracket. The C-Soft Windows-based user interface al ...
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Press Release: Submersible Fluorometer Trade-In Program
Effective December 1, 2008 we obsoleted our SCUFA Submersible Fluorometer. Although there was a solid customer base, over the years we had received numerous requests for product enhancements which were too costly to make on the SCUFA. Accordingly, in July 2008 we introduced a new Submersible Fluorometer, the C3. ...
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Press Release: New C3 Submersible Fluorometer for in situ Optical Characterization of Water Samples
Announcing the new C3 Submersible Fluorometer designed to incorporate up to three optical sensors, temperature and depth. Sensors can be selected to detect in vivo Chlorophyll a, blue green algae, rhodamine WT dye, crude oil, CDOM, optical brighteners as well as turbidity. The C3 can be used in freshwater, coastal and open ocean applications. The versatility of the C3 allows cust ...
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Purchase a C3 Submersible Fluorometer and/or Accessories
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• How to Order
• Trade-in Program
• International Distributors
• Request a Quote
• Request Accessory Pricing
• How to Order
• Trade-in Program
What preventative maintenance or care should always be done before deploying my C3?
Where can I purchase turbidity standards for the C3?
Why can't I enable ASCII data output from my C3?
How do I enable ASCII data output from my C3?
I am having trouble getting C-Soft to initialize when opening it, what should I do?
I am planning on deploying my C3 with the submersible battery. How many readings will I get?
I purchased a pigtail cable with my C3, how does it need to be wired?
Where can I find instructions on how to use the Solid Secondary Standard with my C3?
Do I need to do anything special to the C3 cables and connectors?
Mysteries of the Solid Secondary Standard Revealed
What are the advantages of fluorescence measurement?
I have heard that fluorescence is temperature sensitive. Can I correct my data to compensate for this?
I am conducting a stream study and I need a Dye Injection Pump. Does Turner Designs sell these?
What variables will effect the linearity of a sample?
How does photochemical decay effect fluorescence?
What factors influence in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence?
What is the Max acid ratio (FM) and why is it important?
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Videos
U.S. Coast Guard SMART Team
GULF OF MEXICO - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Kurt Stricklen and crew, members of a Coast Guard Special Monitoring of Applied Response Technologies (SMART) team, collect oiled water samples in the Gulf of Mexico, May 27, 2010. The team of specialists in oil-spill and hazardous substance monitoring, use state-of-the-art technology to gather samples and field data, which help environmental scientists determine the effectiveness of dispersants used to break down oil in the water. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Luke Pinneo
U.S. Coast Guard SMART Team
GULF OF MEXICO - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Kurt Stricklen and crew, members of a Coast Guard Special Monitoring of Applied Response Technologies (SMART) team, collect oiled water samples in the Gulf of Mexico, May 27, 2010. The team of specialists in oil-spill and hazardous substance monitoring, use state-of-the-art technology to gather samples and field data, which help environmental scientists determine the effectiveness of dispersants used to break down oil in the water. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Luke Pinneo
C3 Submersible Fluorometer Software & Firmware
Optical Options
(choose up to 3 per unit)
• Blue-Green Algae (Cyanobacteria)
- Phycocyanin (Freshwater)
- Phycoerythrin (Marine)
• CDOM/FDOM
• Chlorophyll In Vivo
• Fluorescent Dye Tracing
- Fluorescein
- PTSA
- Rhodamine WT
• Hydrocarbons
- Crude Oil
- Refined Fuels
• Turbidity
• Wastewater Monitoring
- Optical Brighteners
- Tryptophan
• Custom optics
(choose up to 3 per unit)
• Blue-Green Algae (Cyanobacteria)
- Phycocyanin (Freshwater)
- Phycoerythrin (Marine)
• CDOM/FDOM
• Chlorophyll In Vivo
• Fluorescent Dye Tracing
- Fluorescein
- PTSA
- Rhodamine WT
• Hydrocarbons
- Crude Oil
- Refined Fuels
• Turbidity
• Wastewater Monitoring
- Optical Brighteners
- Tryptophan
• Custom optics