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3 Pressure Transmitters read and write

Hi, I'm trying to read the pressures from 3 different pressure transmitters. Right now I have the DAQ Assistant converting the voltage input into psi and am using a write to measurement file. Should I be using the DAQ Assistant or the DAQ mx for this? 

My problem is I don't have a power supply for the pressure transmitters yet so I can't test the VI. Will the waveform graph display all three pressures? And will the write to measurement file have 3 different pressure files? 

I appreciate any examples that could help or advice, thanks. 

(I am using a USB 6221)

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Use NI MAX to configure a task for the three transducers. That way you can play with teh # samples and sample rate independent of the vi.  You can do a singe task or three independent task depending on how critical your accuracy is as you will create a scale in MAX to convert the value of the electrical signal to your desired units.  If this is a general app and a single conversion will work for all three then you can use the same scale and a single task.

 

When you do a read with a single task, you will get an array and you can keep it arrayed or split it out per transducer and then easiest to do a mean function to get an average of the samples.

 

You can set up to write any way you want, to a single file or multiple files. Best way depends on what you are trying to accomplish and what you want to do with the data once it is written.

Doug

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