Yokogawa DL750 ScopeCorder

2008 Test of Time winner

The DL750 ScopeCorder from Yokogawa represents an equally impressive packaging job in an instrument that is also a useful measurement tool. The ScopeCorder allows users to trigger and capture instantaneous electrical events or make prolonged trend measurements of physical sensors such as thermocouples or strain gages. It is popular with engineers who make automotive, aerospace, electrical power, and electromechanical measurements. In recognition of the instrument’s reliability and versatility,

the editors of Test & Measurement World have named it the winner of the 2008 Test of Time award. The annual Test of Time award honors a product that continues to provide state-of-the art performance for at least five years after its introduction The DL750 packs a large display on the front, a hard drive inside, and a printer on top. Three USB ports, an Ethernet port, a SCSI port, a video port, a GPIB port, 16 digital inputs, and a ZIP drive, floppy drive, or PC Card drive populate the unit’s left side panel, with space for the power plug. On the right side, the DL750 has room for 8 two-channel input modules. It even has a voice recorder for documentation. In between the inputs and communications ports, the 22-lb DL750 has up to 1 Gsample of memory. You can allocate the memory to any channel or combination of channels. The instrument has all the input modules you’d expect— temperature, strain, acceleration, and voltage. It packs speeds of up to 10 Msamples/s with 12-bit resolution and 1 Msample/s at 16-bit resolution.