Bill,
in order to use these types of feedback devices you need external signal conditioning hardware that provide the appropriate sensor excitation signals and to linearize, filter and amplify the sensor signals.
National Instruments provides a wide range of signal conditioning modules but I don't think that they are a good solution for conditioning feedback signals for motion control as the connectivity and functionality of these modules is designed for the use with DAQ devices.
There are several vendors that provide channel by channel signal conditioning for the sensor types you mention. Please make sure that the output of the signal conditioning module is within the range of either 0 to 5 V, -5 to 5V, 0 to 10 V or -10 to 10 V (these are the analog input ra
nges of the 734x boards).
I hope this answers your question.
Best regards,
Jochen Klier
Applications Engineering Group Leader
National Instruments Germany GmbH
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