VDAS® mkII (Bench Mounted Version)
Model Number: VDAS-B (mkII)
Bench-top data acquisition hardware and software for real-time experiment display, recording, charting, and export.
Overview
TecQuipment’s modern, cost-effective and accurate Versatile Data Acquisition System (VDAS®) improves laboratory teaching. It works with a growing list of over 90 TecQuipment products, enabling real-time display and capture of experiment data. For both individual student use or for lecturers demonstrating experiments to a whole class, VDAS® gives real-time calculation, recording and charting with fast data export. This makes efficient, productive and effective use of time for both students and lecturers.
For VDAS® compatible products either VDAS®-F or VDAS®-B is required. The hardware offers a choice of either a frame-mounting interface (VDAS®-F) or a bench-top interface (VDAS®-B). Both interface units work the same but the choice gives more convenience to the user.
Features
- Works with existing TecQuipment VDAS®-compatible products
- Records data manually or automatically
- Data capture set by time or intervals
- Displays real-time data in digital form or as an analogue meter
- Shows real-time traces of analogue signals
- Logs data for printing and later analysis
- Exports data for use by other software
- Performs real-time calculations to generate user-defined data
- Creates and prints charts and data tables
- Customisable layouts
Specifications
- Configuration: Bench-top interface (VDAS®-B)
- Compatibility: Works with over 90 TecQuipment products
- Inputs: Non-specific digital inputs for direct connection to instrumentation on suitable TecQuipment products
- Analogue inputs: 2 analogue inputs
- Analogue use: Suitable for fast-moving (transient) signals, transducers, and sensors such as displacement or pressure measuring sensors and flow meters
- Computer connection: USB
- Software: VDAS® Version 2 software, free to download
- Display functions: Real-time digital display, analogue meter display, and real-time analogue signal traces
- Signal tools: Derivative traces, reference traces, filtering, smoothing, and trace scaling
- Electrical noise performance: Mostly digital communications circuits for greater resistance to electrical noise than purely analogue systems
Requirements
- Suitable computer required (not supplied)
- For use with TecQuipment VDAS®-compatible products