TMX®
TMX-18
Easily create and switch among
multiple setup configurations
✓ Enhanced security via Windows® 10
✓ 60X faster sampling rates with optional 50MHz Scope Card
AstroNova™ Test & Measurement recorders are the easiest to use data acquisition systems on the market. If multiple users in your group require different setups, it’s not an issue. With the TMX-18, you can easily create and switch among multiple setup configurations.
- 17″ LCD High-Resolution Touch Screen Display
- 18 Channels of Voltage & DC Bridge Inputs
- Dedicated 1 TByte Removable Data Capture Hard Drive for (Solid State Drives optional)
- 800 kHz Sample Rate/Channel (up to 96 channels) & 50 MS/s with optional 2-channel scope card
- 100 kHz Bandwidth
Precisely Synchronized Data Capture: No matter how many milliseconds, hours or days, the TMX-18 won’t miss a glitch. With its dedicated, 1 TByte hard drive for data capture, the TMX-18 is ideal for long-term trending and high-speed event detection. Each channel uses a separate 16 bit A/D for perfect data synchronization. AstroNova’s powerful BackChannel technology ensures precise synchronization of analog, audio, video and data bus inputs. We do not rely on Windows® to synchronize your data.
Embedded Scope Captures: Using the powerful embedded scope capture and intelligent triggering, the TMX-18 provides low speed trending while simultaneously monitoring and storing highly sampled time synchronized transients or events. The TMX® will time stamp and embed that important data into the trend recording, assuring that you capture all details of critical data.
Multiple Sample Rates: Up to four sample rates can be used per TMX data capture. This allows you to manage file size by assigning higher sample rates to critical signals and lower sample rates to trending signals.
Triggering: The TMX-18 contains advanced triggering capabilities that allow you to start and/or stop a recording based on changes in your input signals. The circular data buffer of the TMX-18 allows you to set and record large amounts of pre-trigger data. Window, level and slew triggering let you set up trigger conditions precisely for your application, while ensuring that you trigger only on events that are important to you.
Dedicated Hard Drive: Unlike Windows-based systems, the TMX-18 features a 1 TByte hard drive dedicated solely for capturing data. Removable drives allow your data to be easily transferred and stored securely, leaving no proprietary data on the machine.
Video: Don’t waste time and money on a separate video record of your important tests. The TMX records 30 frame per second video data, perfectly synchronizing with your analog data. Each frame is linked to a sample point giving you amazing detail of any test.
IRIG / GPS (optional): TMX-IR IRIG/GPS time option provides precise time-synchronization of data, video, and all TMX-18 inputs with other devices.
Audio Notes: Save audio annotation into your data capture giving you a verbal account of your test.
Bus Inputs (optional): The TMX CAN bus input options allow your critical bus data to be displayed and recorded with great precision along with your analog signals.
Filtering: The TMX-18 provides the most flexible data filtering options available. The raw unfiltered data is stored to the hard drive, allowing you the choice of pre- or post- data acquisition, low pass, high pass, band pass, and band stop filtering using Bessel, Butterworth or Chebyshev topologies.
Advanced DSP filtering allows you to see your real-time analog data as an RMS measurement, which is ideal for power monitoring applications. The integration and differentiation filter functions provide useful tools for acceleration and deceleration measurement applications.
Hardware Counters: The TMX analog input modules all contain hardware counters that provide Frequency to Voltage (time and cycle based), Pulse Counter, Duty Cycle, Pulse Width, Quadrature and Period Detector measurements.
DISPLAY
Real-time Viewing & Setup: The TMX-18 has a large 17″ color display which allows you to view your data in real-time and post capture. Operation of the TMX-18 is quick and easy with the intuitive touch-screen display. Interface icons and menus provide for straightforward setup and operation. There are no switches, push-buttons or other controls — complete operation is from the touch-screen. And, you can easily customize it to fit your exact needs. This means less setup time and more time for gathering data.
Meters/Gauges/Bar Graphs: The advanced channel meters provide a variety of ways to visually indicate channel activity. View your data numerically or in other visual representations such as a gauge or horizontal/vertical bar, needle and LED readouts.
Scope Mode: Scope mode acts like a digital storage oscilloscope, providing high time-base resolution for viewing high-frequency signals. Scope mode is useful for timing and synchronization analysis, transient capture, and high-speed testing. It can be used while continuously capturing data and monitoring signals on the display.
Compressed Capture: For long-term recording of data using a min/max method which keeps the file size small. It fully records the input signal amplitude at the full bandwidth of the system (glitch capture). Compressed Capture has real-time digitizing sample rates up to 800 kHz (input module dependent) and selectable capture rates for a wide variety of applications. It can be combined with Scope captures for capturing transient signals. Glitches are clearly seen when reviewing the data.
Alarms: Alarms provide a visual indicator when signals extend below or above specified boundaries. These boundaries are defined by setting up low and high alarm levels. The utility / DIO port provides an alarm output pin that can be used to trigger an external process when alarm conditions for selected signals occur.
Automation & Stimulation: Test stimulation and automation is possible with the analog outputs, digital outputs, relays and counters found on the DIOC-16 when coupled with a background program running on the TMX. Quick creation of temporary or unique test cells and even report files is possible with programs as simple as script files and as large as third party graphical programming packages.
REVIEW & POST PROCESSING
QuickLook: The innovative QuickLook feature calculates compression and expansion factors while recording data allowing you to review GB of data in seconds and scan through large data files quickly and easily.
LookBack: The TMX-18’s unique LookBack feature allows you to review data during a capture and also allows the user to transfer previously recorded data without interruption to the active trend capture –an immense time saving benefit.
Exporting Data: The TMX-18 offers a number of ways to archive and export captured data. Data can be exported in our packed binary format, minimizing file size, or a generic ASCII format which is compatible with most analysis packages. The TMX-18 provides eight USB 2.0 ports that open up a world of possibilities. TMX-18 also has an integral 1000BaseT Ethernet port. Simply connect the TMX-18 to a network and upload only the data of interest. The Ethernet connection also provides the capability to control a TMX from a remote location using a suite of host commands.
SOFTWARE
AstroVIEW® X: Each TMX includes free AstroVIEW X PC based data review and analysis program. AstroVIEW X runs on any Windows PC and lets you upload and review data captured on your recorder. AstroVIEW X has built-in analysis and easily converts data into ASCII, Excel®, Mathcad®, DADiSP® and other popular formats.
TMX Offline: With the TMX Offline software, you have the ability to create setups as well as review data on your PC. Running under Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7, the TMX Offline software gives you all the tools necessary to quickly configure the system, transfer files, review and analyze your data.
LabVIEW®: With the capacity to support LabVIEW graphical programming software via the latest version of its device drivers, the TMX will allow engineers, scientists and other test developers to increase their productivity by communicating host control commands via LabVIEW for test cells and automated development platforms.
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
The TMX-18 is designed to go anywhere your testing sends you. The tough, MIL-STD-810 tested industrial grade package gives you the freedom to bring it onto the production floor or out to a remote site.
INPUT MODULES
 | IBRM-6 6 Isolated Differential Input Module • Simultaneous sampling at up to 800 kS/s/ch • Full 16-bit resolution across selected range • Software-selectable bridge completion • 250 VRMS or DC, Cat II isolation • Supports 120, 350, and 1000 Ohm bridge resistances • High Accuracy (+/- 0.07% of selected range) • Built-in counter and timer functions • TEDS compatible |
 | IEPE-6 6-Channel Voltage Input Module • Per-channel selectable voltage or IEPE inputs with excitation • Simultaneous sampling at up to 800kS/s/ch • 16-bit resolution • 250Vrms or DC, Cat II isolation • Three user-selectable measurement ranges to maximize resolution • Built-in frequency counter • Insulated BNC connections • Support for Transducer Electronic Data Sheets (TEDS) |
 | ITCU-12 Universal Thermocouple Input Module • 12 thermocouple inputs • Supports all common thermocouple types • Direct connectivity with standard Type U Mini-TC connectors • High accuracy (<1 deg C J-Type) • 16-bit resolution • 250 Vrms or DC Cat II rated isolation • 50/60 Hz noise rejection • Cold junction compensation |
 | IHVM-6 Isolated High Voltage Input Module • 6 high voltage inputs • Maximum 1,000 V input range • 3 input ranges to maximize measurement resolution • Simultaneous sampling at up to 800 kS/s/ch • 16-bit resolution • Built-in counter and timer functions |
 | NIDV-16 Non-Isolated Differential Voltage Input Module • 16 voltage inputs (30 Vrms or 50 V DC max) • Simultaneous sampling at up to 200kS/s/ch • 16-bit resolution • 9 input ranges to maximize measurement resolution • Built-in counter and timer functions including quadrature event counter • Screw terminal or BNC connections with adaptor |
 | UNIV-6 Universal Input Module • 6 voltage or strain/bridge inputs • Simultaneous sampling at up to 800kS/s/ch • 16-bit resolution • 5 measurement ranges to maximize resolution • Built-in counter and timer functions • 250 VRMS or DC Cat II isolation |
