Adelaide Testing Machines

I was wondering if anybody had any experience with Adelaide Testing Machines (ATM's). We have a TTS Series ATM

and recently purchased the FC-100 software, which is their load control software closely related to their TC-100 software that was provided initially with the machine.

We installed the software and it seems to run correctly, however we are having problems with some of its features. First of all, testing waveform is setup to only run in tension, which does not work for our application. Additionally, we ran some trial tension tests to see if the load control was functioning properly, however there was not way to save the data at the conclusion of the test. Obviously, these problems limit us greatly when trying to perform our testing.

If anyone has any knowledge of the FC-100 or TC-100 software that could possibly help us get past this problem it would be greatly appreciated. Or if anyone knows of any other software available or has tried to write their own software for an ATM machine we would love your input.

Since it seems that there is very little information related to ATM testing machines available we will post all responses that we receive (here or otherwise) in a summary posting.

Thanks, Kevin Bell Ferguson Laboratory