Software upgrade enhances data loggers' performance

5th March 2018

Mick Elliott

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The ADC‑10 was Pico Technology’s first data logger product. It was launched in 1991 with a simple scope and logging software package for MS-DOS, so that users could achieve the three fundamental purposes of logging software: set up the logger, view the graphed data and save the capture to disk. These packages later became known as the PicoScope and PicoLog software.

While not much has changed with the three fundamental logging software functions in 27 years, computing and technology have moved on considerably, allowing faster setup, more advanced ways to review the capture and almost unlimited storage capability.

Designed from the ground up to be intuitive from the outset, PicoLog 6 allows the user to set up the logger and start recording with just a few clicks of the mouse, whatever your level of data logging experience.

Features include real-time data collection and display, access to Windows, macOS and Linux, virtually unlimited logging capacity to PC and a robust database format that minimises data loss and corruption.

It also offers simple and complex programmable alarms and up to four independent graph displays. Channels and graphs can be scaled using lookup tables or equations and data can be exported as CSV, clipboard image or PDF. It supports multiple different Pico Technology data loggers on the same PC

PicoLog 6 software is designed for use with all current Pico Technology data loggers.

These include the TC‑08 8-channel thermocouple logger, with high resolution and a wide temperature measurement range, the PT‑104 precision RTD temperature logger which is able to measure down to 0.015 °C accuracy, the PicoLog CM3 3-channel AC current logger for long-term energy use and mains current monitoring and the the ADC‑20 and ADC‑24 high-resolution multi-channel voltage loggers, supporting single-ended and differential sensor measurements.

Also covered are Pico’s PicoLog 1012 and PicoLog 1216 multi-channel voltage loggers which work as loggers with PicoLog 6 and as 100 kS/s scopes using PicoScope 6.