DashTest C
Compact End-of-Line Instrument Cluster Test
With DashTest C, Alfamation brings its engineering passion, domain experience and creativity to a new level.. This product is an off-the-shelf compact and comprehensive end-of-line tester ,designed for inspection and calibration of automotive instrument clusters, including electromechanical pointers as well as full digital displays such as LCD and VFD dashboards, HVAC control panels, radio& telematics front panels.
DashTest C is a very high performance and reliable tester offering powerful data processing technology, highly sophisticated imaging tools, analog and digital measurement resource implementation, data communication buses, and interactive test libraries
Functions and Applications
- Automatic gauges, analog inputs and clock calibration
- Display missing pixels, segments and telltales inspection
- Stand-by current reading micro-ammeter
- Cluster digital and analog I/O functional test
- Loudspeaker and buzzer audio test
- Built-in multi-protocol automotive data comm (CAN, LIN, K-line, etc.), SPI and I2C
- Switch matrix-based measurement resources routing
- Quick setup for pointers calibration, display, tell tales, analog and digital I/O and communication test
- Application independent mega-pixel vision system
- Fixture based quick changeover
- UUT variant manager handles hundreds of variants
- Test application integrated release management
- WYSIWYG graphical labels and reports template editor
- Diagnostic and calibration toolkit
- Optimized size and footprint
- Off-the-shelf
- Wide installed base shows MTBF higher than 15,000 Hrs
- Very low cost of ownership
- In-line fully automated version available
- Interactive test libraries for pointers calibration, display, tell tales, analog and digital I/O and communication test
- NI TestStand™ based test framework
- Semi-automatic UUT handling with pneumatic locking
- 42 x 4 (2 Amp) UUT switching matrix
- Very low-noise UUT power supply 0-30 V- 3 A with current and voltage read-back and output power switches
- Measuring surround fixed power supplies (+/-18 V - 2 A, +24 V - 2 A, +5 V - 0.5 A, +12 V - 0.5 A)
- N.3 embedded 5 Mpix color cameras with high performance lenses (10 Mpix option)
- N.6 independent software controlled illuminators
- N.2 independent 16 bit 0.8 MS/s arbitrary waveform generators (0-15V/50mA)
- N.2 Independent 14 bit static DAC (0-15V/50 mA)
- N.4 programmable threshold digital inputs
- N.2 independent programmable resistors (up to 1 MΩ @ 1 Ω steps)