# Datalogger recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692 "2011-12-02T17:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaepark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@jaepark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jaepark)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692/1 "2011-12-02T17:17:14Z")
I would like to get a recommendation on a datalogger that Ignition can access. We currently use a AB CompactLogix to gather Thermocouple and 4-20 current. It is overkill, and was going to consider using a Micrologix 1400, but even that seems too much. Having the ability for the unit to save the data internally or to an ftp site would also be useful. ---
**Author:** ![Greg.Buehler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg.Buehler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Greg.Buehler)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692/2 "2011-12-02T17:23:56Z")
I’ve seen some Yokogawa units in the field that seemed to work well for low speed applications. The MW100 line looks like it would also meet your FTP requirements. [tmi.yokogawa.com/products/data-a … tion-unit/](http://tmi.yokogawa.com/products/data-acquisition-equipment/low-speed-daq-industrial-recorders/mw100-data-acquisition-unit/) ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692/3 "2011-12-02T17:38:04Z")
I’ve been using items from [EZAutomation](http://flash.ezautomation.net/) ---
**Author:** ![jsham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jsham](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jsham)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692/4 "2011-12-02T19:49:26Z")
We love the ioLogik E-series units from Moxa. Dead simple to configure and cheap Modbus/TCP units… Don’t do internal logging, but we use them coupled with transaction groups in the scenario you’ve described. They even have some simple if/then logic capabilities for simple tasks. [Link](http://www.moxa.com/product/Micro_RTU_Controller.htm) ---
**Author:** ![tailfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tailfire](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tailfire)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692/5 "2012-07-09T20:13:19Z")
[www.controlbyweb.com](http://www.controlbyweb.com) I haven’t used any of these with Ignition yet but they look promising. The analog unit has 8 channels. ---
**Author:** ![tailfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tailfire](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tailfire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datalogger-recommendations/3692/6 "2012-07-15T07:04:01Z")
It sure looks like I will be trying to use as many of the ezautomation products as I can. Not being biased… its nice to see some U.S.A manufacturing with very affordable prices! ![:thumb_right:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/2026e28c0c425034352c1b75807edf956adc75f4.gif ":thumb\_right:")