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Controlling and synchronizing experimental equipment can be tedious.
Researchers are regularly forced to build controls from scratch
or to piece together systems from the limited tools on the market.
For every hour of true research, a hundred hours are lost to tracking
loose cables, taming noisy signals, adjusting quirky timing and
other aggravating chores.
LabSmith designed the LC880 to coordinate, integrate and synchronize
complicated physical experiments, simply and affordably. With eight
timing channels, logic integration, unique timing modes and 10 ns
resolution, the LC880 outperforms a rack full of digtal delay generators,
gates, timers, filters and cables, all for the price of a single
delay.
The LC880 consists of both ground-breaking software and a programmable
hardware controller. Trigger(tm) experimental design software makes
it easy to create sophisticated control schemes from a PC, with
a built-in compiler that can accept C-style assignments and operations.
The LC880 hardware controller can function as part of a computer-based
control system using Trigger or LabView, or it can operate in stand-alone
mode. With the LC880 linked to your computer, you'll quickly program,
refine and expand experiments. Using stand-alone mode, you can store
and recall up to 64 complete settings, then trigger and monitor
an experiment from the LC880 front panel. You'll have the flexibility
to design experiments offline, then to embed the controller in your
test environment for "set and forget" operation. The new
Drift Compensation mode offers automatic, closed loop timing
compensation for maintaining extremely high laser accuracy, run
after run.
With a single LC880 you can synchronize cameras, lasers, shutters,
choppers, solenoids, igniters, etc. Each of the eight logic channel
can operate as a clock, digital delay, delayed trigger, counter,
and more, all with 10 ns resolution and programmable trigger logic.
What's more, the LC880 brings you functions that are simply not
available elsewhere. "Dynamic delay triggering" lets you
reliably capture elusive phenomena, basing its delay time on a real-time
measurement. This unique mode lets you control uncertain timing
situations, such as synchronizing a flash to a passing projectile,
or timing the spark in a cyclic combustion system. Another mode,
false-trigger suppression, helps tame noisy signals and prevents
unwanted triggering in sub-optimal environments. You can even employ
safety interlocks and switches to toggle between operating modes
(free-run, single-shot, calibration), all without jumper cables
or external logic.
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The LC880 goes far beyond the functions of a digital delay generator,
pulse generator, logic delay or logic controller, integrating all
of these functions and more in a single unit. The LC880 is field
proven daily in gas dynamics, fluid flow, and material science experiments
at national research facilities and major universities worldwide.
In applications from gas dynamics to fracture mechanics, the LC880
is earning its place among function generators, oscilloscopes and
power supplies as an indispensable lab tool.
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