Hi!
I am not affiliated in this products by any means, but I thought that I’d share with you, and also you could help me out a bit.
It ’s quite a new item on Aliexpress, sold by only 2 stores right now, and few reviews.
Seems to be a nice tool to measure battery discharge graphs, driver circuits, chargers, etc, and has more performance than the EBD-M5 type that many of you have here.
I have one on order for 2 weeks, so it should come within a week or two.
I’ll try to test it out using my moderate equipment once it arrives.
ATORCH Store DL24
HiDANCE Store DL24
The key Specs that caught my attention:
-Max. 200V
-Max. 20A
–150W and 180W versions, with only the fan seemingly different
- digital control of current
-CC CV CR CP modes, which is a huge upgrade from the generic 180W analog ones offering only CC.
-digital communication with wired and bluetooth means, datalogging
-protections for over-everything
-all types of usb on-board
- PC and smartphone apps
The main reason I am showing this product to you is that if you are interested in this programmable load, and thinking of ordering one, we should push the sellers to release the logging software source codes for bigger sales, or at least parts of the protocol it uses to transmit data to the PC. I am sure it is not rocket science, and could be reverse-engineered anyway. It is universal across their Atorch USB and other power meters.
I wrote to them through Aliexpress, but given it is a new product with about 50 orderings, they were not super helpful.
There is a smartphone app included, and it is very limited. It does not auto-resize itself, and on a modern smartphone with bigger than fullHD screens, it has an ugly empty bar under the application window.
It also includes a Windows app, which seems to be working and installed OK (without the meter of course), but is also does not support window resizing, and the bottom part is missing from my older, 1366x768 notebook screen.
They include also a NI Labview application, which can be made very versatile with measurement and logging capabilities, but unfortunately it is made in chinese LabView, and it will not run correctly on machines with Roman characters. It is compiled, and non-editable. In one review describing this problem, the seller advises to download a locale-editor app, and changing the localization of the PC or the Labview Runtime software, but neither of those work actually.
If they would share the sources with us, the software could be upgraded to half-decent at least, making a very nice budget lab/flashlight power meter.
If you are thinking of buying one and have a minute, please leave a message on Aliexpress to the seller to correct/release the software.
I’ll leave a reply on this post once it arrives.