Excel enabled data logger

Hey everyone, one of my customers wants to build a gauge certification unit for 0-15,000 psi gauges. I am thinking of incorporating a dead weight tester as well as a digital data logger to record data and create the reports. He would like it to be laptop(pc) based. And I am thinking if I could have the pressure data displayed in Excel. I also thought a camera would be helpful to take shots of the gauge and compare it to the digital data.

Now does anyone have any good ideas on DAC hardware to use, I would like something above 12 bit.

Thanks for any help.

I ment ADC not DAC.

How fast will it need to sample the data?

Not fast at all Archie, even one a second will be fast enough.

Since you don't need high speed sampling, I would consider something that communicates via Modbus, such as this:

http://www.advantech.com/products/d...4017/mod_10fd9e9c-8e8a-42f2-b749-a395f8426262

You could do either ModbusRTU over RS232 or ModbusTCP over Ethernet.