How VDAS® works

TecQuipment's Versatile Data Acquisition System is a highly effective way of collecting and using data from experiments using TecQuipment's educational teaching equipment.

The output signals from VDAS®-compatible products connect to a VDAS® interface unit. This, in turn, connects to a computer. Students then use the comprehensive range of functions in the intuitive, user-friendly VDAS software to monitor, record and analyse their experiment data.

One interface unit can service many pieces of VDAS®-compliant equipment in a laboratory. There's a choice of either a frame-mounting (VDAS-F) or a bench-top (VDAS-B) interface unit. The functionality of both types of interface unit is identical: the two presentation formats are available to provide choice and convenience.

Setting up experiments is easy and connection straightforward. Additional transducers and industrial-standard sensors can also connect to the interfaces (for example digital displacement measuring devices, pressure sensors, flow meters and so on).

The software functions include:

	Recording data automatically or with some manual input
	Display of real-time data, either in digital form or as an analogue meter
	Logging data for printing and later analysis
	Exporting data for use by other software
	Performing real-time calculations to generate user-defined data
	Creating and printing charts and data tables

       
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In addition, the high flexibility of the software enables students or lecturers to create, save and re-use their own custom layouts if required.