11-30-2016 10:26 AM
Hi, often I'm taking a measument in a VI and displaying it in real time in my front panel. Often, the range of the measurement changes drastically in a short timespan. What I'd like is for it to display it in the simplest units. So for example, if the measurement is in volts, and it's currently 2E-8, I'd like it to say 20 nV instead. Now obviously if I wanted it to always be in nanovolts, I could just multiply the display by 10^9, but sometimes it will quickly go from nV to mV or something, and I don't want it then displaying 3E5 or something.
So what I'd really like it to do is have it automatically adjust to use the "closest" unit. I know I could do this using some logic statements or maybe a Ring, but that's kind of clunky. Is there a more efficient way to do this? thank you.
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11-30-2016 10:43 AM - edited 11-30-2016 10:45 AM
Do you know the display format properties?
Try SI- notation Format 🙂
Rigth-Click on the indicator, choose Display Format..
11-30-2016 10:43 AM
Set the display format to SI notation.
11-30-2016 10:49 AM
One addition: Add a log, fixed scale bargraph for a quick optical view! Since m,µ,n,p mix up quickly 😄
11-30-2016 11:01 AM
Awesome, exactly what I want!