Transducer connection to Universal Serial Bus

The new DataShuttle/USB brings more flexibility to data acquisition New DataShuttle/USB from Adept Scientific offers compact and portable data acquisition for the Universal Serial Bus (USB).

The new DataShuttle/USB from Adept Scientific offers compact and portable data acquisition for the Universal Serial Bus (USB), which is built into all new PCs.

It allows users to monitor thermocouples, pressure sensors and most other types of transducers via USB, making it easy to acquire, display and monitor measurement data in industrial, manufacturing and research applications.

A single USB cable provides both communication and power for the DataShuttle/USB.

Built for Adept Scientific by IOtech to complement their existing family of parallel port DataShuttles, the highly affordable DataShuttle/USB (prices start at just GBP 595 ex-VAT) has a very broad range of signal handling capability - signals from +/-20V to +/-30mV can be mixed and matched with thermocouples and frequency inputs.

It allows direct connection of transducers for temperature (thermocouples), displacement, pressure and flow, and measurement of voltage, temperature, frequency, pulse counts, duty cycle and digital I/O.

DataShuttle/USB features a high-resolution 22-bit integrating A/D convertor for low noise, and built-in cold junction compensation for direct thermocouple measurement, while 500V isolation protects.

Calibration is digital, so no potentiometers or adjustments are needed to get the system up and running - it really is a plug-in-and-go solution.

DataShuttle/USB is also highly expandable.

Snap-on PDQ expansion modules provide up to 80 channels of analogue and digital I/O; and anything up to 100 DataShuttle/USB modules can be attached to a single PC using USB hubs, for a total possible channel capacity of 8000.

DaqView software is supplied free of charge with each DataShuttle/USB.

This provides easy spreadsheet-style channel configuration, real-time indicators and charts, and data logging to disk.

Windows 95/98 drivers are included for Visual Basic, Delphi, C++, LabVIEW and DASYLab.

Many other software options are available from Adept Scientific.

The DataShuttle concept has revolutionised data acquisition in recent years, providing a flexible and portable solution that makes it easy to connect sensors and transducers to a notebook or desktop PC without needing to open up the PC or find free expansion slots and IRQs.

Transducers simply connect to screw terminals on the DataShuttle unit.

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