Systems Synchronize for High-Performance Data Acquisition

March 20th, 2008

DATAQ Instruments DI-785 and DI-788 connect to and synchronize over an Ethernet to provide high performance and high channel density. Multiple units, separated by over 100 meters, can synchronize at samples rates as high as 180 KHz per unit by simply daisy-chaining ordinary CAT-5 cables between them. With up to 32 fully isolated channels per box, and support for as many as eight simultaneously connected boxes, no other products offer the isolated channel density and speed of these new models.

The DI-785 has two built-in 16-channel 5B module backplanes. Into these up to 32 5B-type signal conditioning modules can be installed, bringing the universe of isolated industrial measurements to the instrument, including thermocouple, voltage, strain, frequency, process current, RTD, potentiometric and RMS.

The DI-788 is supplied with two built-in 16-channel 8B module backplanes that permit up to 32 8B-type signal conditioning modules to be installed. 8B modules support virtually any isolated industrial measurement such as thermocouple, voltage, strain, frequency, process current, RTD and potentiometric. Soon to be released is a line of RMS measurement modules.

Both the DI-785 and -788 offer 14-bit resolution, programmable gains per channel of 1, 2, 4 and 8, and a maximum sample throughput rate to 180,000 samples per second.

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