Data Acquisition & Monitoring · Industrial Data Loggers
Paperless Data Recorder
Panel-mount paperless recorders in four model ranges, from 6 to 48 input channels, accepting current, voltage, resistance thermometer and thermocouple signals directly and storing the record in internal flash memory.
MIK-R200T (4 models) ·
Key specifications
- Model ranges
- MIK-R200T, MIK-R5000C, MIK-R6000C and MIK-RN3000
- Input channels
- 1 to 6 on MIK-R200T, 1 to 12 on MIK-R5000C, 1 to 48 on MIK-R6000C, 1 to 18 on MIK-RN3000
- Sampling period
- 1 s, one sample per channel every second
- Input types
- Current, millivolt, voltage, resistance thermometer, thermocouple and linear resistance, by model
- Display
- 4 inch colour screen on MIK-R200T, a 7 inch class large screen on MIK-R5000C and MIK-R6000C, and a 3.5 inch TFT full-view screen on MIK-RN3000
- Views
- Numeric, trend curve and bar graph, with multiple channels on one screen and one-key switching
- Storage
- Internal flash memory, 64 MB on the large-screen models, 128 Mb quoted on MIK-R200T, and 64 MB on MIK-RN3000 with 96 MB and 128 MB optional
- Communication
- RS232 and RS485 on the first three models; one RS-485 interface on MIK-RN3000
- Isolation
- Full channel isolation, so one channel's signal does not disturb another; on MIK-R200T the material lists this as a custom item rather than standard
- External transfer
- USB flash drive on MIK-RN3000
A paperless recorder replaces the chart recorder that used to sit in the same panel cut-out, and it changes what the record is for. A paper chart was read while it was running and thrown away afterwards. A recorder with memory holds the whole period and can produce it again later, which means the questions asked of it are different: not what is happening now, but what happened during the shift in which the batch went out of specification.
What it records
The range covers the signals a process panel normally carries: temperature from resistance thermometers and thermocouples, pressure and level and flow from 4-20 mA transmitters, humidity, and current and voltage where energy is being monitored. Up to 48 channels on the largest model, sampled once a second each and stored against a time stamp. The material’s own examples show the pattern - cooling water flow on a furnace, temperature in an oven, flow at a wastewater plant, current and voltage for a load study, and level with high and low alarms on a tank.
How the recording works
Every channel is read on the sampling period and converted into an engineering value according to the signal type it has been set to. The value is written to internal flash memory with its time stamp. Three figures multiply into how long the record can run: the number of channels, the interval and the capacity. A short interval captures brief events and fills memory quickly; a longer one covers more calendar time with less detail, and the model ranges offer intervals from one second to five minutes so that trade can be made deliberately.
Two details decide whether the stored numbers are worth anything. The inputs have to match the signals actually present, since a channel read outside its configured range produces a figure that looks like a measurement. And the time stamp has to be a common reference across the plant, because correlating a temperature excursion with a flow change is impossible if the two channels are recorded on clocks that disagree.
The four models and how they differ
The channel count separates them first - up to 6, 12, 18 and 48 inputs across the four. Beyond that, the differences are in what the instrument can do besides record. The two large-screen models provide transmitter outputs, 6 and 12 respectively, and make relay alarm outputs available on every point; the other two do not. Record intervals differ, storage differs in how it is quoted, and the supplies differ, with DC input available on three of the four. The compact true colour model is the only one for which the material gives an operating temperature and humidity at all.
One structural point is worth knowing before a panel is cut. The two large-screen models share the same cut-out, so an installation that may grow from 12 points to 48 does not have to change its panel to do so.
Inputs and what they accept
Current from 0-10 mA to 4-20 mA, with square-root extraction for flow where the signal is a differential pressure; millivolt and voltage ranges; resistance thermometers including Pt100, Cu50 and Cu53, with Cu100, BA1, BA2 and Pt1000 appearing on some models; and thermocouples across the common letter codes with the tungsten-rhenium types included on most. The large-screen models add 0-400 Ω of linear resistance.
Anything outside those ranges has to be converted by a transmitter first. Full channel isolation is the other half of the same decision: a signal arriving from a plant may sit on a different ground potential from the recorder, and an isolated channel keeps that difference out of the reading. The material describes the symptom of getting this wrong plainly - numbers that jump - and it also notes that full isolation is a custom item on the smallest model rather than a standard feature there, which is worth settling before a mixed signal installation is designed around it.
Retrieving and using the data
Records can be exported to Excel and historical curves printed, and the range reported can be bounded by a start and an end time. The compact true colour model also writes to a USB flash drive on a standard interface, which matters where the panel is not near a computer: a record that has to be collected over a network or by hand is a record somebody has to visit, and one that can be carried away is one that gets examined.
The optional host software reads the live picture and transfers stored data. Online firmware upgrade is available on the compact model; the material states that the colour screen model supports remote upgrade only, which is a distinction worth knowing if the instrument is in a place that is awkward to reach.
Measurement limitations and selection considerations
The significant gap on this page is that the material gives no accuracy figure for the range as a whole. Only the compact true colour model comes with input errors, of 0.1 %FS on current and 0.2 %FS on millivolt ranges, and those are published as that model’s own figures rather than applied to the others. Operating temperature and humidity are given for that model alone. Nothing is inferred to fill the rest.
Four conflicts are carried rather than settled, and each of them is a question someone will ask during commissioning. The communication interface on the compact model is given as one RS-485 port in the model table and as RS485 with RS232 in the interface table of the same document. The supply on the colour screen model is given as 100-240 V with 24 VDC in one table and as 220 V in another. Full channel isolation is listed as a range feature in the general specification and as a custom item on the colour screen model in the document’s own note. And the storage on that model is quoted as 128 Mb and described in words as ten thousand records, which cannot be converted into a period without the channel count and the interval it will be run at. The material also states that the terminal arrangement follows the drawing for each model and must not be interchanged, which is worth passing on to whoever wires it.
Ordering
The items that fix the answer are the point list with the signal type for each point, the interval the process needs recorded at, the period the record has to cover before it is read, whether the installation has to drive anything as well as record it, whether the panel size is fixed or free, the supply available at the panel and whether it includes DC, and how the data will be retrieved. State the point list rather than only a model, because the channel count is what chooses the model rather than the other way round. Quantity, destination port and required delivery date complete the enquiry.
Features
- Between 6 and 48 input channels across the range, so the channel count is chosen from the point list rather than the model being stretched to fit it
- Universal inputs on the colour screen model and analogue inputs accepting current, voltage, resistance thermometer and thermocouple signals on the others, so the common process sensors connect without a separate conditioner for each
- Full channel isolation, which the material explains as the difference between steady readings and numbers that jump when an isolated channel is added
- Three views of the same record - numeric, trend curve and bar graph - with several channels on one screen and one-key switching between them
- Internal flash storage with a user-set record interval from one second to five minutes, so the period covered is traded against how much detail is kept
- Export to Excel and printed historical curves, with a USB flash drive on the true colour model for carrying the record away without a computer at the panel
Technical specifications
Every value below is taken from source documentation. Where a parameter is not stated in the available material it is marked as information required rather than estimated.
| Sampling period | 1 s, one sample per channel every secondStandard |
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| Power distribution output | One channel of 24 V, for powering a transmitter on the loopStandard |
| Power failure protection | Fitted, so data is not lost when the supply dropsStandard |
| Channel isolation | Full channel isolation, so channels do not interfere with one another and the readings do not jump; the material notes that full isolation is a custom item on MIK-R200T rather than a standard featureStandard |
| Processor | 32 bitStandard |
| Views | Numeric, trend curve and bar graph, multiple channels on one screenStandard |
| Export and reporting | Excel export, historical curve printing, data statistics, and a settable start and end time for the range reportedStandard |
| Installation | Panel mounting through a cut-outStandard |
| Host software | Optional, for reading the live picture and transferring stored dataOptional |
| Measurement accuracy | Not stated for the range as a whole; MIK-RN3000 is given input errors of 0.1 %FS on current and 0.2 %FS on millivolt rangesInformation required |
| Ingress protection | Not stated in the materialInformation required |
| Certification | Not supplied in the materialInformation required |
| Input channels | 1 to 6, universal inputStandard |
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| Display | 4 inch high resolution colour screenStandard |
| Communication | RS232 and RS485; the material also lists an RJ45 Ethernet port and a print outputStandard |
| Alarm outputs | 4 relay outputsStandard |
| Record interval | 1, 2, 5, 10, 15 or 30 s, and 1, 2 or 5 minutesStandard |
| Storage | 128 Mb, described in the material as ten thousand recordsStandard |
| Supply | 100-240 V, and 24 VDC ±10 %Standard |
| Dimensions | 160 × 80 mm, cut-out 152 × 76 mmStandard |
| Operating temperature and humidity | Not stated in the materialInformation required |
| Full channel isolation | Listed in the material as a custom item on this model, not standardMade to order |
| Input channels | 1 to 12, analogue inputsStandard |
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| Display | Large screen, 7 inch classStandard |
| Communication | RS232 and RS485Standard |
| Alarm outputs | 1 to 12, optionalOptional |
| Transmitter outputs | 6Standard |
| Record interval | 1, 2, 4, 6, 15 or 30 s, and 1, 2 or 4 minutesStandard |
| Storage | Internal flash, 64 MBStandard |
| Supply | AC 85-264 V, 50/60 HzStandard |
| Dimensions | 185 × 154 mm, cut-out 138 × 138 mmStandard |
| Operating temperature and humidity | Not stated in the materialInformation required |
| Input channels | 1 to 48, analogue inputsStandard |
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| Display | Large screen, 7 inch classStandard |
| Communication | RS232 and RS485Standard |
| Alarm outputs | 1 to 18, optionalOptional |
| Transmitter outputs | 12Standard |
| Record interval | 1, 2, 4, 6, 15, 30 or 60 s, and 1, 2 or 4 minutesStandard |
| Storage | Internal flash, 64 MBStandard |
| Supply | AC 85-264 V, and DC 12-36 VStandard |
| Dimensions | 185 × 154 mm, cut-out 138 × 138 mmStandard |
| Operating temperature and humidity | Not stated in the materialInformation required |
| Input channels | 1 to 18Standard |
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| Display | 3.5 inch TFT true colour full-view screenStandard |
| Communication | The model table gives one RS-485 interface; the interface table in the same document lists RS485 and RS232. The two are not reconciledInformation required |
| Storage | 64 MB flash, with 96 MB and 128 MB optionalStandard |
| Supply | AC 85-264 V, 47-63 Hz, and DC 24 V ±10 %Standard |
| Power consumption | 10 W maximumStandard |
| Operating humidity | 10 to 85 %RH, without condensationStandard |
| Operating temperature | 0 to 50 °CStandard |
| External transfer | USB flash drive on a standard USB 2.0 interfaceStandard |
| Firmware | Online firmware upgrade supported on this model; the material states that the colour screen model supports remote upgrade onlyStandard |
| Screen capture and boot screen | Screen capture supported, and the start-up screen can be written with customer contentStandard |
| Dimensions | Approximately 96.5 × 100.5 mm, with 90.5 mm depthStandard |
| Current | 0-20 mA, 0-10 mA and 4-20 mA, with square-root extractors for the 0-10 mA and 4-20 mA ranges on the large-screen models; MIK-R200T adds 4-20 mA square root; MIK-RN3000 accepts 4-20, 0-20 and 0-10 mA with a maximum permitted error of 0.1 %FSStandard |
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| Millivolt | 0-20 mV and 0-100 mV; plus ±20 mV and ±100 mV on the large-screen models; MIK-RN3000 accepts 0-100 mV, -20 to 20 mV and 0-20 mV with a maximum permitted error of 0.2 %FSStandard |
| Voltage | 0-5 V, 0-10 V and 1-5 V; the large-screen models add a square-root extractor on the 0-5 V and 1-5 V ranges; MIK-R6000C adds ±5 VStandard |
| Resistance thermometer | Pt100, Cu50 and Cu53 as standard; Cu100 on MIK-R200T, MIK-R5000C and MIK-R6000C; BA1 and BA2 additionally on the two large-screen models; Pt1000 on MIK-RN3000, with special types available to orderStandard |
| Thermocouple | K, S, B, J, R, N, T and E on MIK-R200T, with WRe3-25, WRe5-26, F1 and F2 added; the other models cover B, S, K, E, T, J, R, N and the tungsten-rhenium types, with F2 on the large-screen modelsStandard |
| Linear resistance | 0-400 Ω on MIK-R5000C and MIK-R6000CStandard |
| Scope | Additional forms supplied in November 2026 for this product type. Figures below are from that batch; where they differ from the rows above, both are recorded rather than merged.Standard |
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| Input | 4-20 mA, 0-10 V, RTD and thermocoupleStandard |
| Accuracy | 0.2 classStandard |
| Communication | RS-485/ModbusStandard |
| Supply | 24 V DC and 220 V ACStandard |
Available models
| Model | Configuration | Key ranges | Availability |
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| MIK-R200T | Colour screen model. 1 to 6 universal inputs, 4 inch colour screen, RS232 and RS485, 4 relay outputs, 160 × 80 mm with a 152 × 76 mm cut-out, supplied from 100-240 V or 24 VDC | Record interval 1 to 30 s and 1 to 5 minutes; 128 Mb storage; the widest range of thermocouple types in the family, including WRe3-25, WRe5-26 and F1 | The model for a small point count. The material lists full channel isolation as a custom item on this model rather than standard, and gives it no operating temperature or humidity figures |
| MIK-R5000C | Large screen basic model. 1 to 12 analogue inputs, 7 inch class screen, RS232 and RS485, 1 to 12 optional alarm outputs, 6 transmitter outputs, 185 × 154 mm with a 138 × 138 mm cut-out, AC 85-264 V | Record interval 1 to 30 s and 1 to 4 minutes; internal flash 64 MB; 0-400 Ω linear resistance input and BA1 and BA2 resistance thermometers | The first model with transmitter outputs and with optional alarm outputs on every point, so it can drive as well as record |
| MIK-R6000C | Large screen flagship model. 1 to 48 analogue inputs, 7 inch class screen, RS232 and RS485, 1 to 18 optional alarm outputs, 12 transmitter outputs, 185 × 154 mm with a 138 × 138 mm cut-out, AC 85-264 V or DC 12-36 V | Record interval 1 to 60 s and 1 to 4 minutes; internal flash 64 MB; adds ±5 V to the voltage ranges | The model for a dense installation. Its channel count and its cut-out are the same size as MIK-R5000C, so the larger point count does not cost more panel space |
| MIK-RN3000 | True colour liquid crystal model. 1 to 18 channels, 3.5 inch TFT full-view screen, 96.5 × 100.5 mm with 90.5 mm depth, 10 W maximum, AC 85-264 V or DC 24 V, USB flash drive transfer | 0 to 50 °C operating temperature and 10 to 85 %RH non-condensing, the only model in the family for which the material gives either figure; 64 MB storage with 96 MB and 128 MB optional; input errors of 0.1 %FS on current and 0.2 %FS on millivolt ranges | The most compact model, and the only one with a published operating environment. Also the only one with online firmware upgrade, screen capture and a writable start-up screen |
Customization
- Channel count within each model's range, which is the first decision: the point list is settled before the model, and the model is chosen to cover it
- Relay alarm outputs, optional on MIK-R5000C and MIK-R6000C, and transmitter outputs, which the same two models provide for driving a signal out rather than only recording it
- Storage capacity on MIK-RN3000, which can be taken from 64 MB to 96 MB or 128 MB where a longer period has to be held at the chosen interval
- Recording interval, from one second to five minutes by model, which trades the detail of the record against the period it covers
Certification and compliance
Certification documents not yet supplied
Certifications are only published once a certificate copy can be produced, so this section is deliberately empty rather than populated with assumed approvals. Tell us which approvals your application requires and we will confirm what is available for this instrument.
Parameters still to be confirmed
The following are required for a complete specification but are not stated in the documentation supplied to us. They are listed rather than estimated:
- What the model prefix denotes. The same prefix appears in material for two other products in this programme, and a photograph supplied with one of them carries a third-party manufacturer name matching that prefix. If it is confirmed to identify a third party, the model field and the primary keyword both change
- The measurement accuracy of the range as a whole, which the material does not give; only MIK-RN3000 is accompanied by input errors, of 0.1 %FS on current and 0.2 %FS on millivolt ranges
- The communication interface on MIK-RN3000, where the model table gives one RS-485 port and the interface table in the same document lists RS485 and RS232
- Whether full channel isolation is standard or a custom item on MIK-R200T, since the general specification lists it as a range feature while the material's own note says it is a custom item on that model
- Operating temperature and humidity for MIK-R200T, MIK-R5000C and MIK-R6000C, which the material does not state
- The storage figure on MIK-R200T, quoted as 128 Mb and described in words as ten thousand records, which needs to be expressed as a period at a stated interval
- The supply arrangement on MIK-R200T, given as 100-240 V with 24 VDC in the model table and as 220 V in the wiring table
- Net weight of each model
- Ingress protection, and whether a panel seal is included
- The version and licensing of the optional host software, and whether a driver is needed
- Certification and test reports, which were removed from the material at source
- The terminal arrangement of each model, since the material states that wiring must follow the drawing for that model and must not be interchanged
- Warranty period and the terms that apply
- An English-language datasheet and a single table comparing all four models
- Packaging dimensions and gross weight for freight calculation
Frequently asked questions
How do I choose between the four models?
The point count decides it first, because the channel range of each model is fixed: up to 6 inputs on MIK-R200T, up to 12 on MIK-R5000C, up to 18 on MIK-RN3000 and up to 48 on MIK-R6000C. The second question is whether the installation has to drive anything as well as record it, since transmitter outputs and optional alarm outputs on every point appear only on the two large-screen models. The third is the panel: MIK-R5000C and MIK-R6000C share the same 138 × 138 mm cut-out, so a plant that may grow from 12 points to 48 does not have to change its panel to do it, while MIK-RN3000 is the compact option at roughly 96.5 × 100.5 mm.
How long a record can it hold?
That follows from three figures multiplied together: the channel count, the record interval and the storage capacity. The interval is selectable from one second to five minutes depending on the model, and 64 MB of internal flash is the standard capacity, with 96 MB and 128 MB optional on the compact model. The trade is direct - a shorter interval captures brief events and fills memory faster, and a longer one covers more calendar time with less detail. Because the interval options differ between the four models, the arithmetic should be done against the model under consideration rather than against the range as a whole.
What signals can be connected directly?
Current from 0-10 mA to 4-20 mA, including square-root extraction for flow; millivolt and voltage ranges; resistance thermometers including Pt100, Cu50, Cu53 and on some models BA1, BA2 and Pt1000; and thermocouples including K, S, B, J, R, N, T and E, with tungsten-rhenium types on most models. The large-screen models also accept 0-400 Ω of linear resistance. A signal outside the supported ranges has to be converted by a transmitter first, and where a sensor sits on a different ground potential from the recorder, channel isolation is what stops that difference appearing in the reading.
What is stored if the power fails?
Power failure protection is listed as a feature of the whole range, so the stored record survives a supply interruption. That is a separate question from whether the recording continues, which depends on whether a DC supply is available on the model: MIK-R200T accepts 24 VDC, MIK-R6000C accepts DC 12-36 V and MIK-RN3000 accepts DC 24 V, while MIK-R5000C is given as mains only in the material. Where an installation has to keep recording through a mains failure rather than merely keep its history, the DC supply arrangement is the item to settle.
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