Tainlab Equipment Catalogue - Electricity, Electronics & Physics

Catalogue Number: US107

Price: $135 (excluding GST), $148.5 (including GST)

The USB Mini CRO interface has 2 input channels with an input range of 0-5V. Sampling Rate up to 20,000 samples per second. Power is supplied via the USB cable. Requires Windows 98SE or later.

For use with either the Victorian VCE Physics U3-2 Electronics Kit, with the PC Digital CRO amplifier or standalone with 0-5V input signal.

Includes Tainlab Digital CRO software, USB cable and two signal input cables.

Power Monitor

Catalogue Number: EE101

Price: $95 (excluding GST), $104.5 (including GST)

Switch selectable ranges for Current (1A, 10A) and Voltage (1V, 15V).

Voltage Amplifier

Catalogue Number: EE102

Price: $65 (excluding GST), $71.5 (including GST)

Measure from millivolts to volts with this amplifier. Gain: x0.1, x0.2, x0.5, x1, x2, x5, x10 and x100.

Electronics Panel - with experiment booklet

Catalogue Number: EE103

Price: $120 (excluding GST), $132 (including GST)

Within seconds display voltage and current characteristics for Diodes, LED's, Op Amps, Comparators, and more. No additional power supplies or tedious wiring of circuit boards are required…simply connect your test device, adjust the Voltage knob and watch the V-I curve appear on the computer screen. Voltage range is -1V to +3V, and current range is ±25 mA. A separate stage with convenient screw terminals is included for op-amp experiments.

Voltage Input Cable

Catalogue Number: EE104

Price: $20 (excluding GST), $22 (including GST)

Measure an external 0 to 5 V signal, eg. solar panel measurements, electrodes in fruit, etc.
Has alligator clip connectors.

Shock Sensor

Catalogue Number: MT112

Price: $20 (excluding GST), $22 (including GST)

This piezoelectric sensor comes with a protective plastic coating, and allows peak force measurements. Novel applications include comparing shock absorption by different types of footwear and forces on starting blocks.

Impulse Trigger

Catalogue Number: MT113

Price: $65 (excluding GST), $71.5 (including GST)

This highly sensitive piezoelectric element comes with an adaptor and operates as a shock-sensitive timing trigger to detect footsteps and bouncing balls etc. on a surface.
Additional impulse trigger elements are also available (Cat. No. AC103).

PC Digital CRO Amplifier

Catalogue Number: EE108

Price: $160 (excluding GST), $176 (including GST)

Convert your PC into a dual trace (chopped) storage oscilloscope.

Requires either a TecMaster, Fielder or USB Mini CRO interface.

The maximum sampling rate is 20000Hz (USB Mini CRO) or 11520Hz (TecMaster, Fielder).

Display sound waves, capture rectified wave forms, explore RC circuits, etc.

Results can be filed, retrieved, exported and printed.

Includes Tainlab Digital CRO software.

Computer requirements: Pentium 1GHz (or faster) computer, Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

Magnetic Field Sensor

Catalogue Number: EE106

Price: $96 (excluding GST), $105.6 (including GST)

This Hall-effect sensor has an adjustable tip to allow students to measure the magnetic flux density around permanent magnets and solenoids. The range can be set to ±10 mT or ±100 mT.

Geiger Counter Cable

Catalogue Number: EE107

Price: $20 (excluding GST), $22 (including GST)

Monitor and store counts from radioactive sources over periods of minutes, hours or days. This cable connects the speaker output of the IEC Geiger counter to any Tainlab interface. Like almost all data collected with Tainlab, results can easily be exported to a spreadsheet for statistical analysis.

Force Sensor

Catalogue Number: MT111

Price: $170 (excluding GST), $187 (including GST)

The force sensor module operates in both compression and tension with a range of ±20 Newton. Applications include measuring tension in strings, static forces in structures, forces on a pendulum and friction.