usb 6008

[ITTallaght]

im a student doing a project on a creep appartus devive,

im using the NI USB 6008 and am finding it tricky,

all i want to do is read a voltage in and calibrate it to mm, any one any suggestions or know locations of examples,

thank you

[Dennis_Knutson]

It would help if you mentioned which language you are using to program it with. With LabVIEW, you have a large number of shipping examples that use DAQmx which is the driver for the USB-6008.

[ITTallaght]

sorry excuse me im using labview, have you any help

[Dennis_Knutson]

Like I said, there are numerous shipping examples for reading voltage. Just go to Help>Find Examples. When it's open, expnd the Hardware Input and Output>DAQmx>Analog Measurements>Voltage. A simple one to start with is Cont Acq&Graph Voltage-Int Clk. You can also use the DAQ Assistant on the NI Measurements>DAQmx - Data Acquisition palette. From the DAQ Assistant you can even scale your voltage readings into whatever you need. You can also do this in MAX or with DAQmx functions. All of this requires that you are using DAQmx and not DAQmx Base. If you don't have DAQmx, click the Support link at the top of this page and download it.