Hi,
There's another example called High Speed Data Logger.vi that comes shipped with LabVIEW. This is a more efficient datalogging example than simple data logger.vi. The major difference between the two is that Simple data logger continuously opens and closes the file reference in the while loop and writes in ASCII. High speed data logger.vi only opens the file reference once, and then continuously writes binary data to the file until you tell it to stop. After it stops, it then closes the reference. This is how to efficiently do it without incurring any excess overhead. Hope this helps!
PS - You can find the example in the NI Example Finder. Go to Help >> Find Examples, and then go to the Search Tab and enter "data
logging" as the keyword.
Jeremy L.
National Instruments
Jeremy L.
National Instruments
