Is there a function for delay?

[cloudies]

We used Labview to control the current injecting into the resistor and using Keithley multimeter (2000) to measure the voltage across the resistor. We would like to detect the voltage across the resistor after we've injected the current, however the program that we've written can't measure the correct voltage across the resistor. We are thinking of delaying the measurement of the voltage across the resistor so that it will only measure the voltage after a current is passed. What can we do to our existing program to accommodate this function?

[Randy_H]

cloudies,

I would suggest one of two things.
1. Use sequence structures to do the following:
a) Set up both instruments
b) Inject current
c) Measure voltage
2. Create a State Machine that has the same sequence as suggestion 1. The advantage of the state machine is that you can jump around in it. This is good if an error occurs and you need to restart the experiment. I would implement this suggestion.

Randy Hoskin
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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