I'll attach the VI at the end. This seems to be working very well overall as far as functionality, but the timing is getting funky. I've tried to use a Wait and Wait for next ms multiple to prevent these loops from running at the same time and causing hardware conflicts. It seems like I'm really messing up the loop counts, though, as I've got indicators on the loop iterations which are telling me that some of the loops are running a lot faster than the others. I got this idea for Wait For Next Ms Multiple on here in a search and it seems to work great on my simple two-loop program on my other system, but isn't working out well with this many loops. Basically, I'd like for these 7 or 8 loops to each run every 10 seconds or so, but NOT start all at the same time so that they aren't trying to access the same DAQ and causing hardware conflicts. Other than that, I know my code isn't pretty and I've abused local variables like crazy, but it's basically doing what I want. Just not WHEN I want. What's the secret to this loop timing? Thanks in advance!

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So I have a lot of while loops that need to not run concurrently.

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And could someone give me an example of a part of my code that could be converted into a subvi? I really want to get into that stuff.

I reorganized a couple things and added error out/error in to the counter DAQ assistants on the left hand side. That seems to be staggering their execution so that they don't step on each other's feet. None of my other DAQ assistants seem to be conflicting with each other, and I now have one large file write that has all the cases wired for refnum and error. I believe this will do what I need it to, but I'm trying to constantly improve my ability here and would love some more input on what would be the next logical improvement!

Also, my output file seems a bit weird. If you notice on the left I've got several constants and tabs at the 'open file' which serve as my column headers in the output file. For some reason, as soon as it gets to 'OPress1' through 'Hpress2' it is adding an extra tab between those fields! It's making my output file difficult to read and I'm unsure as to what to do about it.

Message Edited by Ralph@NES on 08-13-2007 12:10 PM

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