and p 2 directly to the fittings the processor unit is powered by six rechargeable 2100mah 1 2 volt nickel metal hydride nimh batteries or other power source as would be known to one skilled in the art in the processor unit conditioned 0 5 vdc signals from the sensors transducers are converted from analog form to digital form via a general purpose 16 bit multi channel analog to digital convertor adc or other type of convertor as would be known to one skilled in the art with unipolar single ended inputs with an external reference voltage mounted on a printed circuit board pcb comprising a bus header a field header and digital logic circuitry with an octal 16 bit adc where the field header connects to the signals and the bus header interfaces to the central processing unit cpu the adc sequentially converts each analog sensor signal from the native zero to reference voltage dc range to a binary value v sensor v reference 65536 to support mathematical manipulation by drivers and program code executed by the cpu the cpu package of the preferred embodiment consists of either a 25 mhz freescale mc9s12a512 16 bit flash microprocessor or a 16 mhz motorola 68hc11f1 microprocessor 1 mb flash and 512k ram and 320 bytes of eeprom with connections via a synchronous spi serial interface and dual rs232 485 ports alternatively other architecture microprocessors with various flash ram and or eeprom configurations be utilized to execute standard c or other program code language as would be known to one skilled in the art the cpu accepts user input via a keypad for data entry and display selection as needed or alternatively from an ieee 802 11 b g touch screen device or other.