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reducing no of data saving to excel file

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hello everyone,

i am reading and saving 6 sensor output from an instrument using labview. rs485 communication is using here. normally its saving 2 samples per second in to excel file. i need to reduce this no of data saving. eg: instead of one reading per second i want to save one reading per minute or 10 minutes etc..so for getting that what logic i need to use or any special function is available in labview?

please help

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I would use the Elasped Time function and a case structure.


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@Krishna_kp wrote:

hello everyone,

i am reading and saving 6 sensor output from an instrument using labview. rs485 communication is using here. normally its saving 2 samples per second in to excel file. i need to reduce this no of data saving. eg: instead of one reading per second i want to save one reading per minute or 10 minutes etc..so for getting that what logic i need to use or any special function is available in labview?

please help


If you have a while loop, and you want to execute a certain task at a certain frequency, I would just use a modulo devision:

 

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