Elsys Instruments, a leading manufacturer of custom and standard, fast, high-precision data acquisition systems, has recently announced that its 64 Channel Transient Recorder System has been deployed by TraNET EPC. Elsys’ latest addition is a fully transient recorder system that provides up to 64 channels in one system, which combines high channel density with high precision measurements. Scaling up to 64 channels enables the use of TraNET EPC in a wide range of industrial and scientific applications.
Elsys’ new recorder system combines Elsys' family of high-speed LAN-controlled instruments which include multiple acquisition modes with a series of robust industrial computers, specifically designed for high-precision measurements in industrial environments. TraNET EPC’s enables flexible configurations which have been designed to cater to the users' unique measurement needs. The flexible configurations are ideal for a diverse range of power measurement applications including verification and testing of electrical engine control systems, inverters, frequency converters, as well as power plant maintenance and particle accelerator control.
Elsys’ recorder system is available in 8, 16, 24, 32, 48 and 64 channel versions, and when combined with the scalable TraNET EPC, the resulting solution can be synchronized for clock and triggered with the unique Sync-Link Box for up to 512 parallel channels. The Elsys powered TraNET family of transient recorders include several data acquisition modes. The data acquisition modes are scope mode, continuous mode, block mode, and ECR mode. The event controlled recording (ECR) mode is ideal for troubleshooting and long term monitoring applications. The ECR mode requires a trigger event, however it eliminates the dead time between triggers using an overlapping technique of adjacent acquisitions.
TraNET EPC, powered by Elsys' powerful TransAS 3 software, enables both quick configuration of acquisition channels, a post-processing analysis of complex waveforms as well as two independent instrument functions which run on a single EPC backplane using TransAS 3. TraNET EPC is equipped Elsys' TPCX PCI (News - Alert)-compatible digitizer modules. Up to 16 of the modules can be included and they feature unique measurement precision which are typically plus or minus 0.03 percent, with sample rates up to 240 MS/s at a vertical resolution of 14 bits that is up to 30 MS/s at 16 bits and acquisition memories up to 128 Mpoints per channel. Specialized applications of the TraNET EPC include connector pin resistance testing, ballistics, explosive testing and preventive seismic and structural health testing, and the unit's LAN connectivity enables standalone operation for a reliable deployment of TraNET EPC in mobile and remote environments as well.
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