Saturday, March 23, 2013

Data Logger

Data Logger - a Wonderful Device

In this era of hard or neck ache competition between different companies increase the pressure over the industry. Everybody wants to be the best in their respective field and to be the best they need accurate results for better analysis of their manufactured products. This gives origin to the need of this device.

What are data loggers?
The term “data” means numerical digits or statistics collected together for analysis and other word “logger” states that it is an device which stores events, observations or measurements in a systematic manner.
These gadgets are the stand alone device means you don't need the help of any external machine to make it work. It stores the collected data in its internal memory. Although Micro sd cards or computer memory are used to increase its storage capacity.

What are the important parameters to choose a perfect data logger?

Most type of them is only designed to take certain or one type of input. So purchase only that type of loggers which have the multiple input options.

It is available in market in both the forms (single and multiple channels type design).It gives the freedom to data recorder to receive hundreds of input. Some of the loggers have 400 channels.

The size of this machine also matters a lot because in many cases the applications have less space and this will create a critical problem. There are many types of logger’s available in market now a day’s with Variety in diverse sizes.

These machines have low data storage capacity due to low sample rate this happens due to the fact that all the data is stored in its internal memory and it is very less. While purchasing data loggers don’t forget to check its sample rate and sample duration first because these are the two key points which can increase the memory power and speed of calculating data in this gadget.

Computer friendly Data Logger have the capacity to show the calculated results on computer.

What are the good points about data loggers?
They are more economical and affordable.

They are more flexible and available in market with various types of input signals.

At a cheap price you can get an additional benefit that is you can connect Data Logger  to your
       personal computers and this can help you in easy transportation of data. Although this feature is
also present in other recorders but you have to pay more money to buy them.

It comes in various sizes and shapes and has high sample rates also.

It can itself collect the data there is no need of external help.
These are the battery powered devices and you can also use external power for help if you want.
This device use non- volatile memory for data storage so it would not delete the data if the battery fails.

It’s a wonderful gadget to use so don’t waste time and buy it as soon as possible.

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