Handheld DAQ Instrument features color touchscreen.
Press Release Summary:
MeasuringPAD(TM) collects, monitors, and displays multiple sensor inputs and is suited for troubleshooting, process tuning, fault recording, and trend analysis. Configured and operated through graphical interface, unit continuously scans all active inputs, digitizing with 16-bit A/D while checking for limit-violation triggers and refreshing memory buffer at 10 kHz/input. MeasuringPAD provides live readout of up to 16 differential analog inputs and 8 logic-level digital inputs.
Original Press Release:
Daytronic Introduces New Portable Data Acquisition Instrument
Versatile 16-Channel Tool Features Color Touchscreen and Automated Setup
Dayton, OH-April 6, 2005-Daytronic Corporation today announced the release of MeasuringPAD(TM) to the worldwide market. This rugged hand-held instrument can be used in a wide range of manufacturing, laboratory, plant operations, and quality control applications. Rapidly collecting, monitoring, and displaying multiple sensor inputs, it is ideal for troubleshooting, maintenance, process tuning, fault recording, trend analysis, and much more. Configured and operated through an easy-to-use graphical interface, MeasuringPAD continuously scans all active inputs, digitizing with 16-bit A/D while checking for limit-violation triggers and refreshing its memory buffer at 10 kHz per input.
"Our customers have been asking for a small but powerful data acquisition instrument that can be used throughout a facility for maintenance, troubleshooting, and even energy cost-reduction programs," said Matt Vagedes, Daytronic's General Manager. "MeasuringPAD provides that versatility in an affordable four-pound unit equipped with a color touchscreen, automated setup system with self-identifying input pods, and a range of interchangeable memory cards. In short, we've designed this new unit so that even the novice user can immediately begin collecting and evaluating high-speed data."
MeasuringPAD provides live readout of up to sixteen differential analog inputs and up to eight logic-level digital inputs. As numerical measurements are monitored for exact conformance to user-entered setpoints, the vivid color-coded status display lets the operator size up the test or process at a glance. To ensure true "finished-answer" readability, analog signals are easily scalable to desired engineering units. Convenient input "pods" allow fast and easy hookup of machine- or process-dedicated sensors-including DC/AC Low and High Voltage sources, DC/AC Low Current sources, and most Thermocouple types. Standard TTL-level digital signals may be used to trigger the logging of data, to perform programmable counting and timing operations, and to monitor frequency and quadrature. Up to eight internal cross-channel math calculations can also be set up to display and monitor additional process variables such as horsepower, efficiency, and corrected flow-plus signal max/min and average values. Multichannel display options include bargraphs, trend plots, oscilloscope view, and discrete Fourier transform for harmonic analysis.
Instantly stored on a standard CF memory card in a simple and universally compatible ASCII text format, data records are both time- and trigger-stamped, and may be directly imported by all kinds of third-party programs for post-analysis and report generation, without the need for special drivers or version-dependent operating systems.
Since its founding in 1954, Daytronic Corporation has been in the business of solving unique, challenging measurement and control problems. A recognized leader in sensor-based signal conditioning, Daytronic is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of today's fast-changing digital world using the proven capabilities of analog measurement technology. Daytronic is a subsidiary of WPT, located in Edison, NJ.
