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Choosing an SD Memory Card

Data Logger > Products  SD memory cards are not created equal.  Because an SD memory card works in your digital camera, doesn’t necessarily mean that it will work with your stand-alone data logger. When used in a digital camera, the rate at which data is written to the SD card isn’t critically important. Sure, if Read More

Event Versus Analog Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition > Event, State, Count Customers always know what problem they need to solve. Often don’t know how to find the best solution, which sometimes leads to cramming square pegs into round holes. A recurring example is the attempt to use an analog data logger to record counts or times of an electromechanical process. Read More

What’s the Difference between Data Loggers and Data Acquisition?

Data Acquisition > Products or Data Logger > Products In two words: Not much. But it was not always so. There was a time not long ago when significant differences existed between these two basic system types. Consider the following typical data logger features versus its data acquisition cousin: Data loggers were battery powered. Data Read More

A Simple Humidity Verification Test

Data Logger > Temperature and Humidity Since we sell many data logger products that can measure temperature and humidity customers often ask us how they can verify accurate humidity measurements. That’s a good question. Verifying temperature is easy, but humidity is an entirely different matter. Fortunately, ordinary salt possesses a valuable characteristic that we can Read More

Create an Excel Macro to Add Seconds to DI-160 Event Data Logger Files

Data Acquisition > Event, State, Count > DI-160 Microsoft Excel automatically assigns a date/time format to files generated by the DI-160 Event, State and Count data logger that does not include seconds (mm/dd/yyyy, hh:mm). As a result, events that occur more often than once a second appear in the data file with the same date/time Read More