How can I count time with labview7?

[baumettes]

Hi
How can I count time with labview 7 and NI-DAQmx like I did with labview 6.1 and "count time-easy.vi" (count event or Time.vi).
I have a 6025E and labview 7.0
Thanks

[Ray.R]

I am not sure what you want to do or why..

... but here goes (some suggestions)

If you want to count the time between two events, you have a choice, you may use the Tick Count. Inisitalize it first by getting a timestamp and then do a difference within a loop. The difference will give you the time elapsed in ms.

You can also use the Get Date/Time String or Get Date / Time in seconds and once again take a snapshot when a first even occurs and another snapshot at the next even (at a point where you want to measure elasped time). This method is particularly useful if you want to timestamp an event.

If I didn't answer your question, can you elaborate what you mean by "How can I count time".

Best of luck..

JLV

[baumettes]

Thank you for your answer. Yes I can use the tick count to measure the time elapsed between two events on two different digital inputs but I thank it was more precise to measure it with a counter of the 6025e board. With labview6 and traditional NI DAQ I used
event or time counter config.vi
counter start.vi
counter stop.vi
to do that, but I cant do the same thing with labview7 and NIDAQmx (I dont know how to do)
regards
Baumettes

[waldemar.hersacher]

Hi baumettes,

if you do not need DAQmx for some other reason you can use the traditional DAQ VIs with LV 7 and NI-DAQ 7. It could be you have not installed them if they are not in the palette.

Waldemar

[Ray.R]

I agree with Waldemar..

it should still work in LV7

[baumettes]

Hi, you were wright, it was not fully installed, now I have traditional DAQ on the palette, thank you for your help
Regards

[seb123456]

Hi guys,

more than 5 years later, I have kind of the same problem:

I am working with LabView 8.5 and have to renew some VIs. I can`t just use the traditionalDAQ methods, because for Motion control I had to use DAQmx vi`s. .....

So I am working with a counter source from the PXI6025E and want to reprogram the block the chain

"Event or time counter config - Counter start - Counter Read" 

with DAQmx but somehow just don`t figure it out, would be happy about any kind of help. Thanks in advance!

[RavensFan]

Look for examples in the Example Finder in LabVIEW.