personal user wants to get familiar

[Alexandre Binette]

Hi!

I've already got in contact with LabView and data acquisition set-up, but I'm still a novice here. I'm looking to buy some software and hardware for personal purpose, in order to get familiar with data acquisition and LabView. My question is what do I need to start (software and hardware) and can I get the hardware stuff used?

Thank you all for your precious help!

Alexandre Binette
binett00@gmc.ulaval.ca

[BrandonS]

This really depends on what you want to do. For a general data acquisition card a National Instruments E-Series card would be appropriate. I think the cheapest E-Series card is a NI 6024E. It has 16 single ended analog inputs, 2 12 ananlog output, 8 digital lines, and 2 24-bit counters. This with a copy of LabVIEW (and package, base, full, or professional) is all you should need to get started developing a data acquisition system. One additional feature that you might want would be a breakout box like a scb-68. This will allow for easier wiring to the DAQ hardware. I am not aware of any program that lets you buy used DAQ equipment. For more information on specing out a system go to http://www.ni.com/advisor/

[Shan]

If you want to try an inexpensive piece of 3rd party data acquisition hardware, check out Labjack. It's got 8 analog inputs, 2 analog outputs, and 20 digital i/o. It runs about $100 US. I bought one just out of curiosity and it works well. Comes with LabView drivers, as well as other drivers / examples.

It is not high end performance, but for simple monitoring tasks it's fine and very portable.

http://www.labjack.com/labjack_u12.html

~Tim