SiS Sensoren Instrumente Systeme GmbH

Softsal Interface

The SOFTSAL package is a comfortable add on for AUTOSAL users who want to acquire salinity data from the salinometer by personal computer. During salinometry the PC receives specific information on what you are doing. The system checks for data quality (standard deviations, freak value elimination, sufficient flushing of the cell), inconsistent input (double occurrence of bottle numbers within same box) or instability of electronics (monitors the transferred value of the cell equivalent network which is switched instead of the cell to the electronics during STANDBY). If you don't want the software to decide on your data, you may switch off the automatism and decide which 2 Rt should be used for calculation of salinity by pressing down the DATALOG push-button. Besides data acquisition there is a second part within the package, that is the data postprocessing. If you have generated control data sets during measuring by taking samples of well known salinity, e.g. samples from standard water ampoules or from prepared substandard, you can eliminate zero order drift of the salinometer. With the SOFTSAL data management packages comes the necessary hardware, that are cables, connectors and an opto-isolated interface box for connecting the BCD port of the AUTOSAL to a PC COM port.

Specifications

Size of interface box	150 x 85 x 30 mm (w x h x d)
Weight of interface box	190 g
AUTOSAL cable	Flat ribbon cable with 50-pin male and female SubD connectors
Serial cable	Standard serial cable with 9-pin male and female SubD connectors
Max. serial cable length	5 m
Isolation	Opto-isolated data lines, transformer isolated power lines
Power supply	Via serial interface of PC (3.9 to 25 V); no external power supply required
Current consumption (typ..)	4 mA @ 13 V, 10 mA @ 5 V, 11.5 mA @ 4 V
Operating temperature	0 to +40 °C
Storage temperature	-10 to +70 °C

System requirements

AUTOSAL	Guildline AUTOSAL Model 8400x with BCD interface option
System	IBM® compatible PC
Operating System	MS-DOS® 3.10 or higher
Serial ports	One serial interface according to EIA 232

Extent of supply

SOFTSAL interface box
50-pin flat ribbon cable, length 1 m
Standard serial cable, length 2 m
SubD 9-pin male to 25-pin female adapter (XT serial adapter)
3.5 ", 1.44 MB diskette with SOFTSAL software
SOFTSAL User Manual

Additional Information

Brochure, manual as PDF file, software

SiS GmbH reserves the right to change specifications without prior notice.