Mensurasoft-LZ is a free software of measurement and
experimentation per computer, being able to function under Windows or
Linux, and functioning with various measuring devices and actuators.
Why this name Mensurasoft-LZ?
“Mensurasoft”
means that it functions with the system "Mensurasoft" of drivers of
measuring devices. These drivers are dynamic libraries (.dll of
Windows, .so of Linux), rather easy to program with various compiled
languages (BASIC, C/C++, Pascal). Each measuring device must have its
driver.
“LZ” means that it was programmed in FreePascal language with the
Lazarus environment.
Precautions for use
Mensurasoft-LZ
is intended for the scientific experimentation, and not for the control
of industrial factories. It can control binary and analog outputs, but
normally, they are devices of low power, not endangering the human
life, like the lighting of LED or the tuning of the position
of a
servo-motor.It should not be used
for installations of strong power, requiring important safety devices,
like the adjustment of the temperature of a steam-cracker of oil
refinery, or the opening of the valves of a hydro-electric dam.
Main features:
-
Mensurasoft-LZ can make mesures on 3 different channels (possibly on 3
different devices, corresponding to 3 different drivers). These three
channels are called Xp (“primary”), Xa (“auxiliary”), and Xs
(“supplementary”); time is called after Xt.
- It is specialized in
“slow measurements”, for example a measurement every second, or every
minute. If you want to make “fast measures”, for example every
millisecond or every microsecond, it is better to take another
software (oscilloscope-like).
- One can transform the signals
received by transformation function, for example to convert millivolts
into units pH, or milliamperes in concentration of molecules, etc
-
During the realization of measurements, one can vary a variable by the
function “variable analog output”, which can control a temperature, or
to make square signals, or others. This analog output is programmable
by a transforming function
- The data from measurements are
exportable towards the spreadsheet packages and numerical
software, either by the clipboard, or by text-files, with or the comma
or the point as decimal separator.
- Independently of a series of measurements, one can fix values
of binary outputs and analog outputs.
- Several languages are possible, thanks to language-files.