Both the Advanced and Logger models have a battery level status feature. To ensure accuracy, the power status feature accounts for the number of sensors that are connected. The loggers are designed to survive a four-foot drop onto a hard surface. The EasySense range has just been launched and nearly 20 sensors are already available. Within a year the number of available sensors should grow to about 40.
Students can learn how to collect data remotely within a minute.
To learn all the remote features of the Advanced system will take about an hour. For real-time data collection there is very little that the student needs to know about the data logger. Both systems can store data from multiple recording sessions. The maximum storage capacity will depend on the number of sensors used and the average size of the data sets. By the summer we should have a Vernier adaptor available and most likely by 2001 we'll have a Pasco adaptor.