Those who design enclosures, systems, and components for military apps complete their work in a safe, clean, temperature-controlled environment. So ensuring proper operation of said technology is easy. But what happens when their deployed wares are used by soldiers in the harsh desert environments of Iraq or Afghanistan? Since humidity and temperature extremes have been known to cause technology casualties, Measurement Computing has developed its USB-502-LCD relative humidity and temperature logger to thwart Mother Nature’s ability to wreak havoc on mil electronics. How? By featuring alarms for lows and highs, as well as enabling soldiers or civilian technicians in the field to access stored and current temperature and humidity trends so they can protect temperature-sensitive computing equipment.
Capable of logging as much as a year’s worth of data, the USB-502-LCD data logger displays temperature info on its easy-to-read LCD while recording and storing nearly 16,400 each of relative humidity readings (range of 0 to 100% RH) and temperature readings (range of -35 °C to +80 °C). The sleek USB-based device can then graph, print, or export collected data to Excel. Or for in-the-field electronic app protection against temp extremes, soldiers can cycle between minimum and maximum stored values or between current humidity and temperature values. And downloads are a breeze – users can simply view data by inserting the module into the USB port of a PC using software supplied by Measurement Computing. Meanwhile, USB-502-LCD supports Windows Vista/XP/2000.