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April 2010            Circulation 16,000+ World-wide                Edition # 104


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At a Quick Glance

  • Wireless - One World Router Product
  • Embedded - Everything in one Chip
  • Automation - PLC/Embedded with Linux or CE
  • Instruments - Powerful Portable Scope
  • UPS - Tripplite expands medical products
  • Power Conditioning - From Buildings to CNC and more
  • DAQ Software - A look at the new MCC Multi Core LV Driver
  • New DAQ - A complete new set of DAQ products
  • Encore Software - A new way to make DAQ systems





Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all fine and well and happy also busy.

Straight into the products this month.

Since we are covering heaps we are returning to the Little Bites format.



 

" Little Bites eNewsletter "
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Wireless

 Embedded

 Automation

One World Router Product

 Everything in one Chip

 PLC/Embedded with Linux or CE

A one world 3G cellular router, solving many technical issues

Uses Qualcomms Gobi Technology

This year Q3 you will be able to ship one 3G router worldwide and it will work on almost all telco systems.

It even has programmability, an integrated Wifi access point, Ethernet switch(4), GPS (option) , USB, Serial, Telemetry and more

Advanced security and Firewall rounds it out nicely.

Read more
Read more

Do not start spinning your own system for embedding until you look at this

The first chip with Micro (200MHz), ethernet, Wifi

and a heap of comms and I/O

This year Rabbit will release this chip in several core modules for easy development

Expect a development kit soon

This is making development of very advanced products a snap.

Read more

Many projects that require complex comms and I/O with web ability etc are now using CE or Linux Embedded computers as powerful PLCs.

A PLC/Embedded Computer- many Comms and I/O options

Use high-level, object-oriented .NET Compact Framework (CF) device interface

Use Windows CE 6.0 BSP binary

Use this base as an ODM in your next project

Read more
Read more

Instruments

 UPS

Power Conditioning

 Powerful Portable Scope

 Tripplite expands Medical products

From Buildings to CNC and more

The most powerful portable digital oscilloscope at present

The ADS1000 series

Intuitive logical and convenient user interface

Attractive price - very affordable

4 Models 25, 60, 100 and 150MHZ bandwidth

Sampling 1Gs/S - Equiv 50Gs/S

USB interfacing for simple connection

Read more

Read about spectrum analysers also

Medical Grade UPss

Omni and Smart Range

Isolation Transformers and a Faraday Cage.

350 to 1200 VA units

Excellent prices for Medical Grade

Some have expandable runtimes for critical sites

CE/IEC 60601-1 compliant UPS provides ultimate safety and reliability for patient point of care solutions

Read more

Serious Conditioning right up to 700KVA +

TST Series for CNC machines or robots etc

This electronic voltage regulator series has 4 three-phase models ranging from 6 to 24 kVA.

They are the best solution for feeding CNC machine tools, robots and telecommunication systems.

Thanks to a delta-star isolation transformer they create a "real neutral" on the output lines while using a three-phase input mains without neutral.

This is an excellent website to get educated on Power conditioning

Read more

DAQ Software

New DAQ Products

Encore Software

MCC new LV Driver

 A complete new set of DAQ product

A new way to make DAQ systems

This Universal Library Extensions (ULx) runs with LV 8.2.1 or later

The ULx library syntax is consistent with LabVIEW DAQmx VIs.

The ULx library is task-based.

Every measurement or output operation performed in a DAQ operation, such as analog input, digital output, etc., is a separate task.

Each task is associated with one hardware device and one or more channels of the same type.

Read more

MCC purchased IOTech sometime back

Have a quick look on the drop down

IOTech product can be very useful for many applications

A very large range of specific sensor based DAQ
Also a new range of USB DAQ

Some excellent Rack and Laboratory DAQ

Even Vibration System and a powerful loggers

Contact Loyal for prices

Interactive measurement software for Out-of-the-Box setup, acquisition, display, logging, analysis, and reporting

Included with 6000 Series Ethernet-based data acquisition modules

Advanced feature set with no programming required
Drag-and-drop functionality
Easy-to-use set-up wizards
Ability to drag data directly to Excel®
Included data analysis tools

Playback mode
Sophisticated test report capability

Read more




MasTec Staff Contacts :-

 

 

 MasTec Ltd  

 General Manager

 loyal.noronha@mastecnz.co.nz

 Administration -- Accounting, logistics, freight, AR, AP, GST, PAYE etc

 michelle.hicks@mastecnz.co.nz

   

 OEM -- Automation - Instrumentation - Embedded - Wireless etc

 loyal.noronha@mastecnz.co.nz

 OEM -- AC and DC Power & LED Lighting Systems

 taran.singh@mastecnz.co.nz

   

Automation - Instrumentation - Embedded - Wireless etc

 loyal.noronha@mastecnz.co.nz

AC and DC Power,  Alternative , Marine and Mobile & LED Lighting Sales

 taran.singh@mastecnz.co.nz

 Power Dealers

 taran.singh@mastecnz.co.nz

   
Alpha, PowerCom & others + Low Cost UPSs   
 AC~DC Power Ltd  

General Sales & Dealers

 voltage@acdcpower.co.nz

Administration

 power@acdcpower.co.nz

Please send MasTec any updates on company details, any new staff members etc

Please contact our staff for any products, Loyal, Taran are always pleased to help.


New Web Sites

MasTec is lauching two E Commerce Website in 2010.

Watch for

www.mastecnz.co.nz

This site will be a portal for buying commodity items, such as OPTO 22 parts, power packs, KVM, small PLCs, Rabbit and Digit Kits, Common comms products, IP Power switches, PDUs, batteries etc.

All the very common products every is using.

Also a new AC~DC Power E commerce site

www.acdcpower.co.nz

This site will contain all of the AC~DC product line, which is extensive.

Both will be hosted in house and Taran will be upgrading and managing these two sites.


Wireless Primer

Now the guys at B&B are pretty switched on cookies and they just released this excellent info on wirless, I believe should be available to all. It is public domain ut still I want to acknowledge them as the writers and authors to the public domain.

They have blogged it -- so happy reading and using.

The link for the Blog

Just scroll down a bit and you will hit this excellent work.

 

Some other important or useful links

Rabbit Forum - Rabbit
Rabbit Appnotes - Rabbit
Rabbit Webinars - Rabbit
Rabbit White Papers - Rabbit
Rabbit Documentation - Rabbit
Rabbit Ask Larry Column - Rabbit
Rabbit New Downloads and C math code examples etc - Rabbit  



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