No PC needed for temperature storage

Modules store temperature measurement on compact flash card - one logs data from thermocouples, RTDs, thermistors and semiconductor sensors while the other logs data from thermocouples only.

The USB-5201 and USB-5203 modules from Measurement Computing provide temperature measurement flexibility and convenience, allowing installation wherever temperature measurement is needed - without the need for a dedicated PC or laptop.

The USB-5203 logs data from thermocouples, RTDs, thermistors and semiconductor temperature sensors, while the USB-5201 logs data from thermocouples only.

Both units log data to compact flash (CF) cards.

These modules are for remote or stand-alone applications requiring temperature measurement where the use of a dedicated PC or laptop is not feasible.

Both provide user configurable temperature alarms for control of eight digital output lines.

They come with a 64Mbyte CF card, which can store about 2,350,000 time-stamped temperature values from one channel.

CF cards up to 2Gbyte are supported.

Data can be retrieved either by connecting the device to a computer via a standard USB cable (provided), or by placing the removable CF card into any standard CF card reader.

The devices are also bundled with a power supply and the following software: Tracerdaq provides easy data management and analysis, and converts and saves temperature and alarm data to standard, comma-delimited.CSV or text files, and plots and analyses real-time data or historical temperature files; Instacal is an all-in-one installation, logger setup, calibration and test application that makes setting up and retrieving data from the logger as simple as a few mouse clicks; and Universal Library and UL for Labview are language interfaces that let users write programs in all of the popular programming languages using easy-to-understand, high-level command syntax.

Marc Marini, Measurement Computing's General Manager, said: "Customers purchasing our USB-Temp and USB-TC devices tell us that they love the performance of the product, but in some situations could not dedicate a computer to the measurement".

"These devices offer the same live temperature monitoring capabilities as the USB-Temp and TC products, but can record the data to a removable CF card".

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