Koopa Universal Hardness Tester is designed and manufactured with the latest standards agreements and technology to ensure accurate and precise results. Its digital control system, high precision sensors, speed and flexibility in choosing hardness scales, and full automatic operation, make it suitable for testing of almost all metals and some plastics in industry. The user calibration menu lets the operator to calibrate all direct and indirect parameters of device. The unique Koopa closed loop electronic control system eliminates potential errors associated with deadweight testers making the Series UV1 one of the most stable and repeatable hardness tester ever designed.

   The Koopa Universal Hardness Tester is a high technology digital control system. The force application system is a closed loop stepper motor system with force sensor, stepper motor and digital control electronic which ensures load application with 0.1% accuracy. The indenter displacement in Rockwell methods is measured by a sensor with 0.1 micron accuracy. The main core of the device is a micro controller system which reads the sensors, control the motor, compute the result and other statistical, and display them on LCD.

   Every test would begin with setting the device parameters (scale, dwell time, etc.) if needed, and then pushing the start button. The whole testing process such as force application, measuring the indenter displacement and calculations is achieved automatically. The process steps are displayed visually. If an error occurred during measurement an error message which identify the error would be displayed.

   All operations of the device is controlled with 6 menus: main menu (main operation of the device), set menu (adjusting the device parameters), memory menu (display of memory data), printer menu (sending the memory data to printer or computer), calculator menu (for calculation of Brinell and Vickers formulas), calibration menu (user can calibrate the tester). Users, who requires documentation and data storage in personal computers, can use the USB port to transfer the data to a flash memory.