Hi
they say a perfect picture is an empty canvas
Maybe thats because we all see the picture as we beleive it to be composed!
With regard to your question:
1) what is your sampling speed?
2)What instrumentation are you using?
3) Windows 2000/XP/Vista?
4) Labview version?
Using 'ball park figures:
If you have 16 channels and sample at 16Khz for 60 seconds then a 3MB dat file is generated!
IF you do not write direct to disk then you have over 1GB data to transfer every 6hours
Hopefully you power supply is reliable ALso your PC is capable of the overload.
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I would suggest that you consider a real time solution, compact RIO, with the appropiate hardware.
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xseadog