tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468402402472834032024-03-13T10:21:50.923-07:00Tempcon BlogArticles covering new products and innovative uses of instrumentation and sensors for measurement, control and data logging of temperature, humidity, pressure, energy and environmental conditions.Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-9629706390553930632012-03-20T04:21:00.001-07:002012-03-20T05:23:44.819-07:00Some great underwater pictures from Antarctica<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-2272-29641/310-413/Jen+diving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-2272-29641/310-413/Jen+diving.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>You may remember that back in January we told you about Jennifer Loxton's trip to the Antarctic to study environmental conditions beneath the waves using <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/hobo-u24-002-conductivity-logger-salt-water-u24?filter_name=u24&filter_description=true" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">HOBO U24-002 Data Loggers</a>.</span><br />
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Well, she's back (Despite what her blog says!). Be sure to check out some of the fantastic photo's on her blog <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/jenloxton?fromGateway=true">here.</a>Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-48404001352880506422012-02-03T06:30:00.001-08:002012-03-20T05:23:12.503-07:00New Nanodac™ V3 Launched<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're very excited about the new nanodac™ recorder/controller from Eurotherm. With exceptional graphical recording and combining PID control, the compact ¼ DIN panel mount unit offers up to eight high accuracy universal inputs for data recording and PID control. This secure data recording device with accurate control is enhanced with the addition of a dual-channel set point programmer and a full complement of digital communications options.</span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secure data recording</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 PID control loops</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dual programmer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High accuracy universal inputs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">USB removable data storage facility</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compact design</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">50MB flash memory</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ethernet communications</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.5" TFT VGA crystal clear display</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30 virtual channels</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steriliser Application Block</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Relative Humidity Application</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Block</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Multiple I/O options</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cascade with auto-tune</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Multi-language support (French, German, Italian and Spanish)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/chart-recorders/nanodac-data-recorder-v3-nanodac-v3">click here</a>:</span>Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-24813151052354508112012-02-01T05:33:00.001-08:002012-03-20T05:22:53.400-07:00New HOBO® Event State Data Loggers launched<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2yqaNg9-PLw/Tyk-Xsxk45I/AAAAAAAAADM/WiaibmWc1Yo/s1600/ux90_family.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2yqaNg9-PLw/Tyk-Xsxk45I/AAAAAAAAADM/WiaibmWc1Yo/s320/ux90_family.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">We're delighted to announce the new <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/data-loggers/hobo-data-loggers/hobo-ux90-event-state-data-loggers">HOBO® UX90 Series of data loggers</a>. With the introduction of the UX90 range of HOBO data loggers, Onset can now boast the industry’s lowest-cost, most comprehensive family of “time-of-use” data loggers. The new toolbox suite includes LCD-display data loggers for measuring motor on/off status, electronic pulses, state changes, and occupancy and light use patterns.</span><br />
<ul style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 2em; text-align: -webkit-left;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">LCD displays On-time or % On, providing instant feedback</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">84k or 346k measurement capacity enables longer deployments with fewer site visits</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Flexible logger Start and Stop options</li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s3Ur4R-iWpg/Tx2UzMCFSpI/AAAAAAAAADE/-dxUqQYKArY/s1600/Jen_Loxton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s3Ur4R-iWpg/Tx2UzMCFSpI/AAAAAAAAADE/-dxUqQYKArY/s320/Jen_Loxton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thankfully, we don’t have to brave the extreme conditions that Jennifer Loxton, of Heriot-Watt University, will be facing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jennifer has been awarded funding from British Antarctic Survey, NERC and the Heriot Watt Alumni Fund to support a project investigating the effects of climate change in Antarctica. The project is collaboration between scientists from Heriot-Watt University, the Natural History Museum (NHM), and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jennifer will join scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, to spend 6 weeks in Jan/Feb 2012 SCUBA diving in one of the most extreme diving locations on the planet. During this time she will be examining and collecting bryozoans, small colony forming marine invertebrates, in order to understand the effects of ocean acidification and climate change on their calcium carbonate skeletons.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Animals such as bryozoans, with their small size and fragile skeletons, are best retrieved from the seabed by hand. However, diving in the waters of the Southern Sea is not something to be taken lightly. Antarctic diving poses many interesting challenges because the sea surface freezes and the water temperature at Rothera is below -1 °C most of the year and rarely reaches +1 °C. Weather, such as high wind speeds, icebergs scouring the seabed, leopard seals and killer whales also mean much care is required as well as specialised training and kit.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> The marine invertebrates chosen for this study are tiny marine animals called bryozoans; these filter feeders live together in colonies and build intricate and chemically complex calcium carbonate skeletons. Bryozoans are of interest to scientists studying climate change as they are able to vary the composition of the calcium carbonate as a response to changing conditions in the water they live in. Jennifer will be analysing the skeletons of three of the most common Antarctic species in order to understand the patterns of this variation and therefore gauge the actual effects of climate change on Antarctic animals.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We’re always excited to learn where our data loggers end up and, as Jennifer is planning to use <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=u24&product_id=21">HOBO U24-002 Conductivity/salinity Data Loggers</a> supplied by us, we’ll be keeping an eye on <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/jenloxton">Jennifer’s blog</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/jenloxton">tweets</a>. I suggest you do as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-20032828899548164592012-01-03T07:46:00.001-08:002012-03-20T05:21:51.795-07:00Hobo U24 Data Logger in actionA few weeks ago, we told you about the new <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=u24&product_id=21">HOBO U24 data loggers</a>. These data loggers are ideal for tracking and monitoring water temperature changes in both salt and freshwater conditions.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20111227%2FNEWS%2F112270328" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px;">Cape Cod Times/Merrily Cassidy</a> </div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', Arial, Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 12px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=CC&Date=20111227&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=112270328&Ref=AR&MaxW=570&MaxH=370&title=1&border=0&cb=20111227004000" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=CC&Date=20111227&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=112270328&Ref=AR&MaxW=570&MaxH=370&title=1&border=0&cb=20111227004000" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Just last week, a colleague pointed them out being used in:<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="line-height: 1.35em;">Sandwich, </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">Massachusetts by</span><span style="line-height: 1.35em;"> Jo Ann Muramoto (S</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">enior scientist from the Association to Preserve Cape Cod)</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> as part of a Statewide Project to gauge the impact of global warming on river herring.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.35em;">You can read the full article </span><a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20111227%2FNEWS%2F112270328" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.35em;">here:</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.35em;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.35em;">It's always great to see advances in technology leading to practical experiments and analysis that weren't feasible before.</span></div></div>Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-87068526105010877682011-12-14T03:02:00.001-08:002012-03-20T05:21:21.115-07:00New HOBO Conductivity and Salinity Data Loggers<div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="141" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2N0VcqahFNs/TuiDLjLevLI/AAAAAAAAACU/EB7uFgcceHs/s200/Conductivity%2Blogger.jpg" width="200" /></div><br />
We've had great feedback about Onset's new HOBO Conductivity and Salinity Data Loggers<br />
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There are two models to choose from for fresh and salt water deployments. Both provide easy access to the sensor for cleaning and shedding air bubbles. HOBOware Pro software enables start/end-point calibration to compensate for any fouling and provides easy conversion to specific conductance and salinity.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=u24&product_id=408">Hobo Conductivity Data Logger - U24-001</a><br />
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Supported Measurements: Conductivity, Temperature<br />
Ideal for streams, lakes, and other freshwater sources<br />
Non-contact sensor reduces sensor drift<br />
Conductivity range from 0 to 10,000 µS/cm<br />
Easy access to sensor for cleaning<br />
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<a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=u24&product_id=21">HOBO Conductivity Data Logger - U24-002</a><br />
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Supported Measurements: Conductivity, Salinity, Temperature<br />
Ideal for saltwater environments such as bays and estuaries<br />
Conductivity range from 100 to 65,000 µS/cm<br />
Non-contact sensor reduces sensor drift<br />
Easy access to sensor for cleaningTempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-80588108460824857222011-12-10T02:11:00.002-08:002012-03-20T05:20:57.294-07:00Track Energy Consumption EasilyOnset's new 4-channel energy data logger combines the functionality of four separate data loggers into one compact unit. <br />
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Enabling energy management professionals to track energy consumption, equipment runtimes, and water and gas flow rates.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=ux120&product_id=73">UX120</a> Simultaneously measures and records pulse signals, events, state changes, and runtimes<br />
With onboard storage of over 4 million measurements you can now deploy for longer with fewer site visits needed.<br />
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The range of start/stop options, logger status LEDs, and high-speed USB 2.0 data offload enable you to deploy the unit much more easily.Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446840240247283403.post-58693704979268263122011-12-10T02:10:00.002-08:002012-03-20T05:20:26.679-07:00Access USB data loggers over the networkWe're really excited to tell you about a technology that allows you to connect your existing USB or Serial dataloggers to your computer using an Ethernet connection.<br />
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Basically, your dataloggers can be accessed from a computer anywhere across your company network.<br />
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Depending on what logger you have and what software you're running, you can monitor all environmental and process measurements remotely!<br />
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If you're using software, like <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=hoboware&product_id=231">HOBOware</a>, you can use the 'remote' computer to send data across the Internet using ftp or email.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=sx-3000&product_id=477">SX-3000GB</a> allows you to connect up to 15 USB devices! So one computer can monitor 15 dataloggers from anywhere on your company's network. <br />
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Connect a <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=u12&product_id=228">U12</a> with 4 channels and monitor 60 channels remotely! (Contact me to find out about connecting non-usb products).<br />
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Silex products are used worldwide; we've tested the <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=sx-3000&product_id=477">SX-3000GB</a> with Onset HOBO's (<a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=1_25">U10, U12, U14, U30</a>) , Dickson's TM320 and <a href="http://www.tempcon.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=squirrel&product_id=368">Squirrel SQ2010's</a> and been very impressed with the results. You can even connect other USB devices such as: storage devices or usb monitors and connect remotely to them as well.<br />
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From just £105, you can put your existing equipment to even better use and get even more out of it.Tempconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566612610077465437noreply@blogger.com0