12-23-2005 09:45 AM
12-27-2005 11:50 AM
Hi Gogy-
Which O/S are you using? If you are using Windows XP/2000 you should upgrade to Traditional NI-DAQ 7.4 so you can use MAX to create and edit channels. Windows 98/Me are supported by Traditional NI-DAQ 7.1.
Those drivers will install examples for VB6 that show how to perform programmatic channel creation in lieu of using MAX or the Channel Wizard. These examples install in the "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI-DAQ\Examples\VBasic" folder of your hard drive.
Hopefully this helps-
12-27-2005 04:23 PM
12-28-2005 05:19 AM - edited 12-28-2005 05:19 AM
Message Edited by Gogy on 12-28-2005 05:21 AM
12-28-2005 10:19 AM - edited 12-28-2005 10:19 AM
Hi Gogy-
The MAX (aka channel wizard for NI-DAQ 7.1) utility often runs slowly on older computers. It may seem to freeze for some time, but will usually finish its task and become functional again if you let it run to completion. Otherwise, since it runs correctly on another older machine, it sounds like your test machine may need to have its disk defragmented or performance otherwise optimized.
To test your card with the NI-DAQ 7.1 driver with programmatic channel creation (i.e. without relying on MAX) you can check out the examples in "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI-DAQ\Examples\VBasic\Ai"
EDIT: for spelling
Hopefully this helps-
Message Edited by Tom W [DE] on 12-28-2005 10:19 AM
12-30-2005 03:13 AM
12-30-2005 04:24 PM
Hi Gogy-
It sounds like one of your signal pins is floating with regard to the measurement system. Are you sure that your example program specifies the correct input terminal configuration? Make sure that if you are using RSE (referenced single-ended) that you connect your positive signal pin to the aiN input and the negative pin to aignd. You may need to change the input terminal configuration specification in the example you're running. How exactly do you have the hardware connected now?
Thanks-