Model EL-EnviroPad-TC (Discontinued)

Model EL-EnviroPad-TC is a temperature measurement instrument designed to work with a connected thermocouple. It integrates a touch-sensitive display, rechargeable battery, and a huge non-volatile memory to offer a truly portable temperature measurement instrument for a variety of manual and automatic measurements. The EL-EnviroPad unit easily fits in the palm of your hand, and the supplied K-type thermocouple probe tethers to it using a coiled lead wire that can easily stretch over 4 feet (1.2 meters) from probe tip to connector.

EL-EnviroPad-TC allows two temperature measurement modes: Spot checks where a single temperature measurement is acquired and recorded to flash memory with the date and time of acquisition; Long-term data logging where the instrument is configured to acquire temperature data at one of six programmable sampling intervals ranging from once per second to once every 12 hours. Like the spot check mode, time and date information is logged to flash memory with every temperature measurement.

Both data logger and spot check modes display minimum and maximum values acquired during any given session. The data logger mode allows programmable high and low temperature limits. When an enabled limit is breached, the EL-EnviroPad will sound an audible alarm and its real time display flashes red. The audible alarm will persist, even after measured temperatures return to normal levels, until a virtual button is pressed to reset it. Pressing another virtual button mutes the audible alarm. Recorded measurements display in real time, and their background color changes to indicate alarm states. A grey background color indicates readings within defined limits, while values that breach the upper and lower limits display with a red and blue background color respectively. Data logging sessions may begin immediately, or at a programmable date and time in the future.

Finally, data files recorded to the device may be reviewed directly on the EL-EnviroPad display in either a tabular or graphical format with time and date information. A single virtual button push displays summary stats that indicate the number of high and low limit breaches, and absolute minimum and maximum measurement values for the entire file. To support more detailed analysis, EL-EnviroPadacquired data are stored as delimited text files on the device. These may be accessed as any USB flash memory by simply plugging the EL-EnviroPad into the USB port of any computer running any operating system that can access a USB thumb drive memory device. Popular examples are Windows, Linux, and OS X for Macs. When accessed from a Windows platform, software provided with the ELEnviroPad allows cursor-based measurement review and instant export to Microsoft Excel®.