Astro-Med Dash MX portable data acqusition

Astro-Med has introduced a lightweight and compact portable data acquisition system.

Designated the Dash MX, the full-featured high speed multi-channel system is design engineered for capturing high frequency data and transient signals as well as long-term trending.

The standard device records up to eight channels of isolated voltage inputs to an internal 320 GB hard drive at sample rates up to 200 KHz per channel. High frequency data captures can be saved directly to a hard drive for review and post analysis and it includes support for IRIG time codes A, B & E.

Equipped with a 12 ″ colour display for touch-screen control as well as real-time viewing and analysis, the graphical user interface is optimised for ease of use.

Operating on 100 to 264 VAC, the system includes an internal rechargeable battery for power backup and up to 30 minutes operation.

It is supplied with isolated single-ended inputs that accept up to 250 VRMS and the MX-H version is equipped with high voltage modules that can measure up to 1000 VRMS. Other signal input modules include thermocouple, bridge, piezoelectric and universal.

The digital signal processing provides a wide variety of capabilities including: low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and band-stop filtering; derived channels (calculated channels based on user-defined equations), variable sample rate during capture and up to four sample rates per capture.