Kinder Scientific’s StartleMonitor products are the industry standard for precision and reliability in data collection. Our Load Cell Sensing Technology, which we pioneered, provides both increased resolution and, perhaps more importantly, the ability to produce results that have a recognized scientific basis (e.g., the response is measured in Newtons!). As a result, StartleMonitor products are trusted and exclusively used by every major drug discovery and drug safety testing organization worldwide.
Features Descriptions
Classic Measures:
- Peak Response (calibrated and in Newtons!)
- Average Response
- Latency to Peak
Additional features:
- Base Line Activity (Up to 250ms of subject activity prior to the record window)
- Latency to Onset – this is in addition to the latency to peak.
- Frequency of Response
- Both Negative and Positive Peaks and their accompanying latencies
- RMS Average – expanding on simple average to help provide a better understanding of the power of each response
- Rise Time of Response
Computer Requirements
Virtually any “modern” PC will easily run the software for the StartleMonitor System but here are specific PC requirements:
- Type of PC: The software may be run on either desktop or laptop PCs.
- Minimum Processor Requirements: i5 processors or later.
- Hard Drive Type/Minimum Hard Drive Capacity: 250GB or larger.
- Minimum RAM Requirements: Minimum 8 GB.
- OS: Windows 7 Pro, Windows 10 Pro or Windows 11 Pro versions. We STRONGLY recommend the Pro version.
- Other Hardware requirements (specific ports to connect to hardware, PCIe cards, second network port, etc.): A RS232 port or, if running two or fewer stations, a USB to RS232 adapter.
- General PC requirements (certain power mode selected, avoiding auto A/V scans, avoid auto Windows updates, avoid screen savers, etc). We recommend:
NOT doing Windows OS updates during a trial due to the very real possibility that one of these updates could cause a conflict with the back-and-forth between the PC and the BSC with potentially catastrophic consequences.
NOT using programs or apps that do remote status checks of the host PC or the PC network.
NOT using screen savers or power setting controllers that cause the PC to ever pause, sleep or hibernate.
Recommend using uninterrupted power supplies to power the BSC and ideally also the PC.
If there is any chance of RF interference from either other nearby equipment or from the power lines themselves, using the RF choke beads as is well understood will eliminate this problem.