Hello fellow ACS members. I'm looking for a model of digital timer that displays in seconds only, and at least to the tenth/sec. The only product I have found is the defunct Lab-Line(r) Kwik-Set Lab-Chron No. 1405- and while it may be a fine timer, it would be nice to have something NIST traceable and quiet (this is electro-mechanical). This would mainly be used for capillary viscosity testing. I remember using an alternative to the Lab-Chron that was made specifically for the petroleum industry, and in Texas (I believe)- seems like they were around $600 US/ea!!! I assume with the right materials I could probably make my own...Oh, and the reason for displaying seconds only is that this (if it exists) is a fix to a problem my company is having with production quality testers forgetting to change 1.52.28 to 112.28sec from stopwatch to viscosity formula.
Any ideas?
And Thanks in advance,
Chris Slone
What about an electronic stopwatch? A quick web search brings up several "seconds only" stopwatches, for much less than $600. See, for example, Control Company http://www.control3.com/index.htm. Theywould seem to have NIST traceable stopwatches for what your looking for, and they specifically mention viscosity measurements.
-Bryan