Woah. The Corestar (the company my work gets its equipment from) development team are going hard this year.
September will see the release of the OMNI-200 tester which seems waaay better than the 100 series. It now sports high-speed analogue-to-digital converters (reducing the signal lag between the tester and the laptop), dynamic gain (no more shitty saturated signals! Yay!), and best of all (in my opinion) - they removed the need for a reference probe. What that means is that to perform Magnetic Bias you now only need one probe instead of two (which is a pain in the ass). I'm wondering what the price tag is on those babies. Probably $15,000+, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
They also released an update to EddyVision (the software we use to read the data). Besides improved technical mumbo-jumbo, it now supports USB dongles and XP SP2, which means we can finally get rid of our outdated MS2000 lappies and those huge serial port dongles.
Plus a bunch of new probes, including one we helped design (sort of).
PS: Oracle, you're probably one of the few who can understand what I'm talking about - the MAD on the Aurora is essentially a gigantic version of some of the probes we use, except it works in reverse (looking for a disturbance in a ferromagnetic environment, rather than looking for a large metal object in the ocean).
September will see the release of the OMNI-200 tester which seems waaay better than the 100 series. It now sports high-speed analogue-to-digital converters (reducing the signal lag between the tester and the laptop), dynamic gain (no more shitty saturated signals! Yay!), and best of all (in my opinion) - they removed the need for a reference probe. What that means is that to perform Magnetic Bias you now only need one probe instead of two (which is a pain in the ass). I'm wondering what the price tag is on those babies. Probably $15,000+, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
They also released an update to EddyVision (the software we use to read the data). Besides improved technical mumbo-jumbo, it now supports USB dongles and XP SP2, which means we can finally get rid of our outdated MS2000 lappies and those huge serial port dongles.
Plus a bunch of new probes, including one we helped design (sort of).
PS: Oracle, you're probably one of the few who can understand what I'm talking about - the MAD on the Aurora is essentially a gigantic version of some of the probes we use, except it works in reverse (looking for a disturbance in a ferromagnetic environment, rather than looking for a large metal object in the ocean).
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cyriaca:
Holy the only words I think that I understood in that were the first one...the last PS sentance and the odd word liek september..... 
tickletrunk:
ahaha... dongles.