AMETEK Land recently announced a number of enhancements to its Lancom 4 portable gas analyzer to improve usability and provide attractive features as standard. Now available as a free download, Lancom 4’s data acquisition software, Insight, is a tool that allows users to interface their analyzer with a PC for remote control and data logging. Insight reportedly offers graphing and analysis tools for data visualization and reporting purposes, providing easier access to data. Communications between Insight and the user’s PC requires a USB-RS232 interface converter, which is now supplied with every Lancom 4 for easy set up. In addition, Lancom 4 now includes standard Wake and Sleep functions, allowing measurements and data logs to be recorded over an extended period, as well as a rugged carry case, ensuring that the instrument is protected at all times when in use.

Upgrading to Lancom 4 also has reportedly been made much easier. Hardware items, such as external printers or analog output modules, reportedly can be plugged in with no firmware configuration needed. This means that these items can be fitted in the field, avoiding the need to return the instrument to the factory.

Lancom 4 is a portable flue gas analyzer for checking or testing a boiler system or pollutant process. It has the capability to monitor up to nine different gases, a total of 17 measurement parameters with one instrument, as well as the ability to data log up to 250,000 records. Lancom 4 has fully built-in data capture and storage of measurement data, plus a USB connection to download the data to a PC, along with free-to-download Insight data acquisition and analysis software for on-site record keeping, analysis, and reporting.

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