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Determine if a device is primarily a thermocouple device?

This should be a simple question and I also wasn't quite sure which forum to put it in but... can anyone tell me a good way to tell if a device is primarily a thermocouple device, like a USB-9211A? A USB-9215 will cheerfully report that it can do thermocouple measurements but I want to identify devices that are intended for it.

 

I can just simply try to start a task using the built in CJC and if it errors, consider it not a TC device, but I don't love this approach; I can also just check against a list of device types, but that's not very future proof. Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated!

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Hi there, 

 

Out of curiosity, why are you wanting to do this?

 

National Instruments primary thermocouple devices have smaller voltage input ranges and CJC for higher accuracy measurements. Regarding a property that identifies it as a thermocouple device, I am not aware of one. This KB gives an example of getting device information. If you need to programmatically determine this, I would compare device information to a list of known devices.  

 

 

Clint T.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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Hi,

 

Okay, known devices approach will work fine and shouldn't really require a bunch of tweaking.

 

We've always supported -10 to 10V devices but are adding thermocouple support. In general, if our users have a device like a 9215, they *probably* want to measure voltage, and if they have a device like a 9211, they *probably* want temperature, and I want to make this as automatic as possible. This is just to avoid writing UI code as much as possible 🙂

 

Thank you,

Micah

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