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Santa brought me an early Christmas present in mid-December and I’ve been having fun learning how to use it.
It’s an EasyLog EL-USB-3 data logger. It’s one of a series of data loggers made by Lascar Electronics, this one designed to collect DC voltage measurements in the 0-30 volt range.
The ‘USB’ in the name refers to the USB connector inside the hardware unit. That’s how you connect it to your Windows PC to set it up for a data run. Once you do that, you remove the unit from the PC’s USB port and add a plastic cap which has wires and alligator clips for connecting it to the load. After you collect the data, pull off the wired cap and once again plug the unit in to your PC to read and plot the collected data. You can also export the data in several formats.
It has storage space for 32,510 voltage readings. If I set the sample rate at 1 second, it fills up in about 9 hours. At a 2-second sample rate, it lasts 18 hours. Sample rates are 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 seconds, those same increments of minutes or 1, 6, and 12 hours per sample.
Online sales listings for the device say it works in Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 and 8. Santa told me he almost passed on it because the listings don’t show Windows 10 support but then found that Lascar’s tech support page says the latest version of the software does indeed work with Windows 10.
Installation was easy on my Windows 10 system but I did have a small glitch. After the software installed I received a warning message that scanning had failed (I assume this is scanning of the USB ports) but right after that the driver installation ran and I was in business.
Here's a data sheet for it with more info. I believe Santa paid about $75 for it on Amazon.
I’ll show some logging runs in my next few posts.
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It’s an EasyLog EL-USB-3 data logger. It’s one of a series of data loggers made by Lascar Electronics, this one designed to collect DC voltage measurements in the 0-30 volt range.
The ‘USB’ in the name refers to the USB connector inside the hardware unit. That’s how you connect it to your Windows PC to set it up for a data run. Once you do that, you remove the unit from the PC’s USB port and add a plastic cap which has wires and alligator clips for connecting it to the load. After you collect the data, pull off the wired cap and once again plug the unit in to your PC to read and plot the collected data. You can also export the data in several formats.
It has storage space for 32,510 voltage readings. If I set the sample rate at 1 second, it fills up in about 9 hours. At a 2-second sample rate, it lasts 18 hours. Sample rates are 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 seconds, those same increments of minutes or 1, 6, and 12 hours per sample.
Online sales listings for the device say it works in Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 and 8. Santa told me he almost passed on it because the listings don’t show Windows 10 support but then found that Lascar’s tech support page says the latest version of the software does indeed work with Windows 10.
Installation was easy on my Windows 10 system but I did have a small glitch. After the software installed I received a warning message that scanning had failed (I assume this is scanning of the USB ports) but right after that the driver installation ran and I was in business.
Here's a data sheet for it with more info. I believe Santa paid about $75 for it on Amazon.
I’ll show some logging runs in my next few posts.
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