04-09-2021 04:52 PM
FIRST, the NEW QUESTION with preamble:
NOW we see issues short Q:
Has anyone successfully used an external PCIe extension chassis, such as Star Tech and other Mfg offer, WITH USB-C (not Thunderbolt 3 as PC not Apple/MAC and TB3 proprietary to Apple) with DAQmx PCIe cards like X series DAQ PCIe-6323? If so please comment on any issues and performance. Laptops have zero card slots but newer ones USB-C. I'm sure some of my developer fiends have done this before. I do not see that NI has a USB-C PCIe extension box guaranteed compliant with their X series boards. But if reading, NI engineers, please let me know if you do. NI Blog supervisors, I know PXI is for this but we don't want to spend over $20 K now. Thank you very much for your responses.
Community Fiends: Sorry about the larger font above but my eyes old and fuzzy. Q must be made with no obvious errors. Many helpful answers found on this board, thank you all and I need to follow up with kudos for previous help.
Background: We have 20 NI PCIe-6323 X series DAQ cards, 2 per production PC and 8 or so PCI-8430/4, /8 and PCIe-8430/4, /8, /16 RS232 cards about for our numerous mass flow controllers. We cannot use USB2 or 3 UART COM Ports for gas mass flow controllers as many toxic and is very bad to mix oxidizers and reducers improperly... Well, we 'could' but would be incredibly unwise and I'm a Senior ChE in charge of these safety issues. NO2, NO or O3 and Ethanol/H2/CH4/other fuels BOOM!!! USB COM Ports can be anywhere as we know if jacks moved. Best a fixed RS232 card on motherboard for toxic gas flows. NI cards have a nice means of ALIAS and all other backup through NI-MAX if the database ever gets corrupted. Fast and easy to restore system. Kudos NI and NI-MAX!