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USB 6009 - Calibration of Analog Input (Mac)

Hi,

I have recently acquired a NI USB 6009. I'm using it under labview 7.1 on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
I can run the software examples and the datalogger without problems. However, the device seems
not to be properly calibrated, and I can't figure out how to do it from the manual. When I connect
pin 1&2 (analog in 0) to pin 32 and 31 (GND and 5V ref voltage) the software claims that the
measured voltage it ~3.7V (a multimeter confirms that it is in fact 5.0V). Can anyone help
trouble shooting this ?

Thank you in advance,
Niels
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A little update : After thinking some more I realized that it's because
the USB 6009 is in differential mode, and I hadn't connected one pin. Now
however, I have trouble figuring out where to change/set this. None of
the programs (e.q. Acquire One Voltage.vi) seems to define this, so where
is this defined ?

Thanks,
Niels
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hi Niels,

you configure the measurement mode of your device through the task you create in the NI-DAQmxBase Configuration Utility. there you can change between single ended and differential mode. so the mode is given by the task and not in the VI.

greets!
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