How You Can Use BTU Measurements to Document Energy Efficiency

Performance Verification Proves Savings to Customers and Financiers BTUs (British thermal units) are a widely-used metric for energy production and in solar HVAC system financing. From HVAC installers to schools seeking system performance verification for energy grants, technicians in every industry are monitoring this value in their facilities. BTU data can therefore represent significant savings … Continued

Basic Techniques of Vibration Measurement and Diagnosis

HOW TO MEASURE VIBRATION FOR MACHINE MONITORING AND FAULT DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS Vibration measurements are very useful for condition monitoring of machines that employ rotating parts and for fault diagnosis of motors, transmissions, generators, blowers, and turbines. Key components of a vibration measurement system are the sensors, typically accelerometers or displacement transducers with associated signal conditioning … Continued

What Is the Best Way to Retrieve Your Data?

Standalone vs PC-Dependent Data Loggers When selecting a data logger there are a few factors to consider to make sure you’re getting the recording and storage capabilities you need. Ultimately you have to retrieve the data from the data logger, so do you want to keep the logger hooked up to your PC or do … Continued

How to Increase the Internal Memory of Squirrel Data Loggers

Using Grant SQ2010/2020/2040 Data Loggers If you’re working on a data acquisition project requiring extended data collection, Grant Squirrel series data loggers allow users to increase their internal memories if necessary. Grant and its North American distributor CAS DataLoggers show you how it’s done in this brief Technical Article. You can also watch Grant’s YouTube … Continued

How to Connect Pressure Sensors to a Grant SQ2010 Data Logger

Grant SQ2010 Portable Universal Input Data Logger This article will explain how to connect pressure transducers and data loggers–specifically, transducers with an analog current signal (4-20ma), and the popular Grant Instruments SQ2010 portable universal input dataloggers. Required items for this project include a 2-wire pressure transducer with a 4-20ma signal; a 24V DC power supply, … Continued

Startup Process for the Accsense B1-06 Wireless Gateway

Cloud-Based Monitoring of Almost Any Parameter Gateway Startup Process: When users first connect an Accsense B1-06 wireless gateway to the network and power it up, it will go through the following process as it connects to the Acccsense server via the network: First the gateway will perform its Power On self-test. When this test is … Continued

Troubleshooting the Accsense A2-05 LAN-Wired Pod

No Blue Conn Light/Illuminated Stat1 Light If you’re having issues connecting your Accsense A2-05 LAN-Wired pod, this brief walkthrough from CAS DataLoggers should soon help you resolve the problem. You can also view ourYouTube video detailing this process at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xBbOwtmQE4. Troubleshooting Issue: No Blue Conn Light When connecting the Accsense A2-05 LAN-Wired pod for the … Continued

What are Solid-State Temperature Sensors?

Monitor Your Product or Process Reliably Temperature measurements are among the most common data logging applications found across a broad variety of industries including cold chain integrity, medical monitoring, machine/equipment monitoring, environmental monitoring, and in practically every other field. Since temperature monitoring devices are designed for such a wide variety of needs, it’s important that … Continued