Humboldt Digital MasterLoader

Triaxial Permeability Soil Testing

The HM-3000 Digital MasterLoader is the most versatile load frame available. Stand-alone or computer-driven, the HM-3000 can handle it all – automating your lab and increasing your productivity.

Designed for applications requiring multi-purpose loading systems, the HM-3000 is ideal for just about any application from road construction to high-volume commercial and educational laboratories. The HM-3000 MasterLoader provides fully-automatic test performance allowing unattended operation while controlling motor start/stop, speed selection and test data acquisition. Its modular design allows the machine to be custom configured to handle any test necessary. You can buy the machine to handle any specific test needs and add on to its capabilities at a later time. This way you only pay for what you need, but you are never faced with an obsolete system.

The HM-3000 will function as a standalone device or can be interfaced with a computer using Humboldt's HMTS software. It also provides an analog output port if you need to utilize an XYt chart recorder. The HM-3000 is specifically designed for soil testing labs conducting multiple testing operations including: UU, CU and CD triaxials, UC, CBR and LBR. With its built-in four-channel data logger, the HM-3000 can acquire data from load, strain, pore pressure and volume transducers. The data acquisition can be automated by setting trigger conditions to start and stop logging. Tests can be initiated or terminated automatically increasing lab productivity.

Features include:

  • Four channels with real-time data acquisition
  • Backlit LCD display
  • RS232 interface for computer or printer
  • Nonvolatile test data storage and instrument calibration
  • Battery-backed real-time clock
  • Auto conversation of instrument calibration between English or Imperial units and SI or metric units
  • Test setup and selection via keypad
  • Automatic triggering of test logging data
  • View logged test data via the LCD display
  • Logging rate as fast as 0.1 second/reading
  • Humboldt HMTS, Basic, User-Defined Level software included for data acquisition

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