The VTG Tornado touchscreen cap torque tester is packed full with advanced functions and features, which sets it apart from other closure torque meters. Featuring a 5" colour touchscreen dual-zone display.
The touchscreen's upper zone clearly showing the peak readings in N.cm, lbf.in and other common units of measurement.
The touchscreen's lower zone provides a live graphical plot of the torque applied, so critical events such as release torque, bridge-breaking of a TE band, and strip torque can be easily identified. The lower zone can be switched allocated to a statistical overview, calculating Max, Min, Average and Standard Deviation from the peak readings captured and stored in the VTG Tornado's memory.
A configurable first-peak function, coupled with the standard maximum reading, ensures that both the initial slip torque and also the bridge-breaking torque are captured. This is particularly valuable when measuring the performance of plastic and metal tamper-evident closures (eg ROPP), where a maximum reading alone is insufficient to determine both characteristics.
Individual results can be transmitted immediately via RS232 to a PC or printer for analysis, otherwise an onboard memory of over 500 peak results is also available for mass storage when batch testing and subsequent download to a printer or PC. An external SD memory card captures all the individual data-points for each test in .csv format so that they can be exported to Excel and other software packages.