Hi folks,
Beginner user, I'm trying to figure out if it's worth my time to try DAQExpress for my application or just buy Labview and get more functionality.
My application: ~15 x digital 4-20mA inputs are coming into two DAQ modules I've purchased. These are a combination of temperature, pressure, and flowrate sensors. I want to hit "start" to simultaneously start recording all of these values, and write them to an excel file. If I have 5 samples a second (or even 1/s), that's fine. I do not need to control anything. I want also to develop my basic panel to display live readings of these values during the experiment, and also do a kind of visual/audio alarm if values are out of a specified range during the experiment (but not interrupt anything).
This is a basic research system, and I want to be as time-saving as possible so if getting labview saves me 2 full days of time it would be worth it. Also want to consider that we'll want to upgrade to more complex capabilities or even controls in the months/years to come.
Thanks!