Acquisition CompactDaq with 4 cards ??

[Krafter37]

Hi,

I have a big problem with LabView, and I'm totally a beginner on this soft, plus it's hard for me to understand english so I didn't manage to resolve my problem with things I found online.

So I'm using a CompactDaq-9138 with 4 cards : (9232, 9213, 9223 and 9203). And i'm on LabView 2012 (12.0). When I started my work The vi was already made for 3 cards and it work fine.

Now I need to use the 4 cards that I have. But when I try that I have an error : "- 200022 occured at DAQmx Start Task.vi : 4. Ressource requested by this task has already been reserved by a different task".

And I tried with only 3 cards, no matter which cards it was it worked, it's just when I have the 4 cards simultaneously. I always have this error on the "start.vi" of the fourth channel. I join my VI to this message, so it always occur at the "start vi" after the "start digital edge".

I already read some similar topics on the forum, about the clock of channels, things like that... But I'm really a beginner on LabView it's really hard for me to understand. (Plus I am french and the technical explanation in english on a soft that you don't know is complicated ^^").

So if someone know why I have this error and can explain it to me it would be really nice, because I've tried multiple things and don't know what to do now...

Thanks a lot

[crossrulz]

Your problem is that the cDAQ-9138 only has 3 analog sample clocks.  This means you can only have 3 AI tasks.  What you need to do is put all of your analog input channels into a single task.  This will greatly simplify your code and make it more scalable.

[Krafter37]

Thanks for your fast answer.

Ok too bad it can't have 4 tasks ^^".

Would it be possible that you explain to me how I can have 1 task for everything? I don't know if you opened the vi but I need all the acquisition to start at the same time.

So I don't know how to have everything start together with one analog sample clock, can you detail it to me a little or make a really simplified vi of that? I'm sorry again I barely understand what is a "task" it's the first time I use LabView and I'm alone on it without formation so I have trouble to understand how it work ^^"

[crossrulz]

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Krafter37 wrote: I barely understand what is a "task" it's the first time I use LabView and I'm alone on it without formation so I have trouble to understand how it work ^^"

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In that case, start here:

Getting Started with NI-DAQmx

Learn 10 Functions in NI-DAQmx and Handle 80 Percent of Your Data Acquisition Applications

[Eloise]

Hello,

When you read the documents given by crossrulz, you can find an exemple with multiple tasks:

NI-DAQmx: Creating an Analog Input Task with Multiple Measurement Types in LabVIEW
http://www.ni.com/example/25899/en/

Have a good day

[Krafter37]

Hello,

Thanks for the documentation and thanks Eloise for the focus on that part that helped me a lot ^^

Just something that bother me : with the example all the channels have the same rate of acquisition if I understand right?

For me I need to have a different acquisition rate (again sorry for my english) for each channel (temperature, current, voltage, ...). Is it possible if I use only one analog sample clocks to have 4 differents rates?

Good day to you too

[Eloise]

Hi,

NI cDAQ-9138 chassis provide three timing engines for analog input. So you can't create more than 3 tasks with different timing :

How Many Different Tasks Can Concurrently Run on a CompactDAQ Chassis Gen II?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/5E0B829E50ADE1BC86257AC50062B2D2