RE: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-16 Thread Uwe Frenz
Hi all, thank you all soo much for that overwhelming response. Can't answer all responders individually! There have been some very interesting hints among them - I'll check it out soon. As to the Ebay-posters: Have tried to get some interesting parts two or three times but with no success.

Peak detection (was: 60MS/sec- is this possible?)

2004-02-16 Thread Uwe Frenz
Hi, E. Blasberg wrote on Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:52:11 +0200: ... Well, they're expecting very large peaks on the order of microseconds and they were afraid that too low a sampling rate would miss the true peak. Acquiring analog signals always inherits the risk of 'missing' the peak (in the

Max OS X Snooping on Serial comms

2004-02-16 Thread Joe
Hi, I'm looking for a software for snooping on serial port for max os X. Any Idea ? Thank you. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

Re: Some Problems with LabVIEW and Matlab DLLs

2004-02-16 Thread spj
Hello Colin, Though I hoped for an answer that showed me a way that did not make necessary to relink the DLL each time I rebuild it, at least it is good to know that I was not doing something wrong. Thanks for your comment, spj

May be someone has example code for using ICQ ActiveX

2004-02-16 Thread AlexKatz
I can't use the ActiveX of ICQ program may be someone can send me examples for using this ActiveX. Thank you.

Remote panel question

2004-02-16 Thread jackolim
Hi, I have read the remote panel from the NI development/labview. The problem now i face is maybe i am too new to labview. I have create a simple VI and also sign for a free web host under www.bravenet.com . How can i create a remote panel(a html file) of my simple VI and load it my homepage so

how to invoke the .exe files of other language same as vc++, vfp, ppt in lv 6.1?

2004-02-16 Thread pyj
how to invoke the .exe files of other language same as vc++,vfp,ppt in lv 6.1? who can tell me ,hope you can attech a example vi! thanks!

Re: A GPIB remote panel question

2004-02-16 Thread nayisoe
The easiest way of doing this is using web publishing tool. Check the user manual for more detail. Also you can use VI server, datasocket to accomplish this. You can find several example regarding VI server and datasocket that ship with labview. Good Luck.

A GPIB remote panel question

2004-02-16 Thread jackolim
Hi all, I have created a VI that make use of GPIB to control some of my lab equipment. The problem now i face is how can i set this VI as a remote panel for internet. I have a free website under www.bravenet.com . How can I do such a remote panel thing? thanks

how to invoke the .exe files of other language same as vc++, vfp, ppt in lv 6.1?

2004-02-16 Thread pyj
how to invoke the .exe files of other language ( for example vc++,vfp,ppt) in lv 6.1? who can tell me ,hope you can attech a example vi! thanks!

Re: Problem with array processing !!!

2004-02-16 Thread Chris_de
If you don't have to treat an existing array, I would recommend uisng out indexing here anyway. Its way faster than any array handling.

Re: eje X con incremento variable, no a escala

2004-02-16 Thread bego
Santiago, much=EDsimas gracias por tu ayuda, es justo lo que necesitaba, un saludo, BEGO

Re: Using button to control subVI.

2004-02-16 Thread lihui
Thank you very much, Chris. May i ask u if there is anyway to disable the button first until certain execution is executed, before releasing it to the user? Im actually working on a project that manipulate data across gpib. If the user press the button to early, certain data will not be received.

I need a Program or a Driver for the NV 40/1CL

2004-02-16 Thread germannubie
unfortunately I have only LV5 but I hope that anybody can help me

Re: Instrument I/O assistant doesn't show terminals

2004-02-16 Thread TommyTestBoy
The Instrument I/O Assistant and its necessary files are installed by the Driver CD - not the LabVIEW installer CD. Did you reinstall the drivers from the Driver CD when you did the LabVIEW re-installation? I would like to reproduce this issue you are seeing - It looks like you installed LV 7.0

Re: 3D surface plots with intensity value to overlay at each point?

2004-02-16 Thread Joe Guo
You probably can use the cursor property of the 3D surface graph. Joe

Re: how can i determine the sampling rate of my board

2004-02-16 Thread Shan
The user manual is the best place to determine the specifications of your board. The a href=http://www.ni.com;datasheet for the PCI-6014/a says the maximum sampling rate is 200,000 samples / second. Try searching the shipping examples for analog input examples. I suggest trying Cont AcqGraph

RE: 4 stroke engine Rpm sensor

2004-02-16 Thread Ross, Michael
All you really need to acquire the spark signal is a bunch of thin wire wrapped around the spark lead. The pickups of a timing light are only fancy so you can take them on an off with ease. The changing voltage in the spark lead will be induced in the coil. You can read that with a DAQ card and

Re: Remote panel question

2004-02-16 Thread BJD1613
The first thing that you need to do is to open the web publishing tool. This is located under the tools menu. This will allow you to create a html file of your vi. The one stipulation is that the html file is placed in the LV directory named www. This will also allow you to test the html file

levenberg marquardt slower in LV7

2004-02-16 Thread Ruud
I wrote this LV application using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. In LV6.1 it worked perfectly, but after converting it to a LV7 program, it runs much slower (maybe 10x slower) Does someone know this problem (and a solution??)

Re: For the wish list

2004-02-16 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
David Ferster wrote: ...I must be a bad designer because I do just what you are saying is a no-no, which is to leave a small amount of real estate blank. The error indicators stay invisible until an error condition occurs, so that the panel is not cluttered with indicators for rarely occurring

RE: 60MS/sec- is this possible?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
E. Blasberg wrote: ... they're expecting very large peaks on the order of microseconds and they were afraid that too low a sampling rate would miss the true peak. An analog sample-and-hold can be configured to capture transient peaks accurately and greatly reduce the load on the computer. --

Re: How to save data in a 4D array and make partial plots in real time?

2004-02-16 Thread chutla
Greetings! You can use any of the 3D display vi's to show your main 3d data, and then use color to represent your fourth dimension. This can be accessed via the property node. You will have to set thresholds for each color you use, which is quite simple using the comparison

Re: I need a Program or a Driver for the NV 40/1CL

2004-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear germannubie, what is NV 40/1CL ??? Pls enlighten a german-oldie regards wha

Re: Main VI stops when using control references.

2004-02-16 Thread mkdcs
Thanks, Nothing like have an example to explain an idea. Thanks for all the help. Hope someday I can do the same for others. Mike

Re: Finding the generated html via www in a LAN?

2004-02-16 Thread Joe Guo
This is a network setup issure and not related to labview. Please post your questions to other newsgroup. However, I'll elabrate just a little bit on this topic from my limited knowledge. Other people may have better answers than mine. Basically, the router restricts your access to the

RE: low level device drivers

2004-02-16 Thread Howard, John
Somehow I thought you might have some good advice Rolf. :) Since there are a lot of functions I need to implement, I'll be looking for a simpler alternative. (Either using another companies hardware or getting one of our C++ programmers to write a DLL.) You always seem to have the answers

how to test for cold soldering?

2004-02-16 Thread trout00
this may be off topics. Does anybody has a good test/check for cold soldering, visual inspection is not good enough? Any idea is appreciated.

Re: Use symbol in plotting

2004-02-16 Thread fenny
I'm using plot multi-xy.vi to plot, and I use draw text at point.vi to label my plot, not xy- graph.

RE: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-16 Thread Scott Serlin
Uwe, You stated: allmost all others use some of those last-second-bet-tools. Can you elaborate on what you meant by this? Do you mean that the sellers are using some sort of autoprogram to bid up the auction at the last minute or that people like me are waiting to the last minute to bid and

Wonderware and Labview?

2004-02-16 Thread Hamid_Yazdi
Hi; May I ask the list: 1- Has anybody tried to integrate a Labview code with wonderware? 2- How is it possible to communicate with wonderware? Basically, I want to have an application in Labview and the client wants the results of the test to be shown in wonderware front panel. I don't know

Re: 3D surface plots with intensity value to overlay at each point?

2004-02-16 Thread FraserD
Joe if i do this, i think i need to manually enter the values, and there are several thousand. It's not really practical. Perhaps i have missed a way that it is possible; what did you have in mind? thanks Fraser

Re: Finding the generated html via www in a LAN?

2004-02-16 Thread shoneill
This won't work without changing the router settings, which I think the school won't like doing. I'd try to find a different way to do this if possible. Do you have the possibility to upload to a shared directory somewhere in the school, from which you can access outside the school? Ask the

[off-topic] e-aby bidding

2004-02-16 Thread Jim Henry
There are last-second bid services like http://www.bidnapper.com/ They are called bid snipers. JIM Scott Serlin wrote: Uwe, You stated: allmost all others use some of those last-second-bet-tools. Can you elaborate on what you meant by this? Do you mean that the sellers are using some sort

Re: Wonderware and Labview?

2004-02-16 Thread Khalid . Ansari
There are a few ways you can integrate Wonderware and LabVIEW: 1. OPC -- Wonderware supports OPC. You could either use LabVIEW-DSC which is both an OPC Server and a Client. Or, use DataSocket to talk OPC. 2. DDE -- Wonderware originally used DDE for IO communication. They still

RE: registering a labview built dll

2004-02-16 Thread Jim Kring
DLLs built with LabVIEW are not ActiveX/COM DLLs and, therefore, can not be registered with the OS using regsvr32. From what I was able to Google on the subject, you can't call standard DLLs from ASP. You will need to create a COM wrapper around the standard DLL, and call the COM wrapper from

Re: Project update from Labview 6.02 to 7.0 caused cpu usage...

2004-02-16 Thread Sean C.
Hello Yurong, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. There is no known CPU usage problem when updating from LabVIEW 6.02 to 7.0. Try reading the following knowledge base concerning CPU usage. http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/8638139D6236D42086256A340073554A?OpenDocument If

Re: Modbus communnication using labview???

2004-02-16 Thread Russell
Additionally, we have the following Knowledge Base article on the subject: a href=http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/2CD034F223C650E9862569570041995C?OpenDocumen;Do LabVIEW and LabVIEW Real-Time Support Modbus?/a You might be able to sidestep doing any modbus programming by using an

Re: 3D surface plots with intensity value to overlay at each point?

2004-02-16 Thread Joe Guo
The 3D Surface VI has a reference out, wire a property node to it and select Cursors, wire a method mode to this Cursors reference, and you should be able to add cursors with coords. Joe

Re: setting up position of front panel objects using input from file

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew C
Hello mymandarin, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. Shan is correct. You can use property nodes to programmatically set the values of your controls on the front panel. Those values can be drawn from a file and wired into their respective property nodes. By position of your

Re: Finding the generated html via www in a LAN?

2004-02-16 Thread Joe Guo
If you just want to see the updated frontpanel image, then it is much easier because you can save it to an image and put the image (copy or ftp) into your public html site at a regular interval. Of course, you have to write a webpage to display the image and some other data. If you want to

Re: ELV M232 Problems

2004-02-16 Thread Sean C.
Hello Christoph, I=92ve now managed to send the correct command to the ADC.. and the ADC responses with 13B1#06 for example. But i still get the timeout errot - the I/O assistant doesnt seem to recognize the answer from the device. How are you getting the 13B1#06 response from your device? If

Re: levenberg marquardt slower in LV7

2004-02-16 Thread Jonnie 5
During the conversion, were the L-M vi's converted to LV7 or fully replaced? There appear to be a few changes between 6.1 7 LM vis... several of the lower level subvi's go changed to CIN's, vs pure LV. You may want to see if it's just LV 7 running slower (LV 7 uses more resources than 6 in

Re: How AI Hardware Config.vi into AcquireProc N Scans - Trig.vi amplify gain?

2004-02-16 Thread Jonnie 5
If you aren't using virtual channels... Using the original AcquireProc example program, you can set the gain by putting values into the Input Limits. Labview will automatically scale the results. So if your signal is 0-10V, put 0 as the minimum limit, and 10 as the maximum limit. Typically,

Re: setting up position of front panel objects using input from file

2004-02-16 Thread mymandarin
hey thanks matthew and shan for your reply ~~By position of your controls, I am assuming you mean their values (i.e. turning a knob), as opposed to actually moving its location on the front panel. yes you guessed it right. how can i use the property node,is there any sample vi.

Re: Finding the generated html via www in a LAN?

2004-02-16 Thread Joe Guo
When the labview server is running, you can go to to the menu to configure it, it should tell you what port is used. Or, Broswe in the NI's program directory, there is also a configuration file that can tell you which port it uses. For VI server port, you can check the preference setting from

Re: Time error between two waveforms

2004-02-16 Thread Sean C.
Hello C. Allen Weekley, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. Will you please elaborate on what you mean by RMS error calculation for the time axis? Are you looking for the phase shift? When you subtract two waveforms, you are calculating the difference between two amplitudes at a

Re: LV 6.1, 3D Surface Graph sometimes collapses (doesn't work...

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew C
Hello mjoler, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. The following example will show you how to plot multiple 3D plots on a single 3D graph. Modeling your VI after the example may also alleviate the instability that you have been experiencing.

Re: Problem with DAQMX on a 6025E !!

2004-02-16 Thread RL
Perhaps this will help. I had a similar problem because my configuration was incomplete. I had to Configure the Scc-2345 Accessory in the NI_DAQmx Devices. In Data Neighbourhood configure your NI-DAQmx Global Channels then do your NI-DAQmx Tasks. I believe that your tests only confirmed that

Re: conflicts between property nodes

2004-02-16 Thread Julie S
Try exchanging the two sets of properties (zoom and center x,y) - property nodes execute from top to bottom. You will also want to make sure that the error cluster is connected so that the property node does not execute until the image has been acquired. Hope this helps- Julie S Applications

Re: cont: Serial port 8bit ADC circuit

2004-02-16 Thread Bupe
hello Jeremy am back as i said I would. I need some help because I got confused on how I should implement this section of the code in labVIEW... for count:=0 to 7 Do Begin{ do the bit value eading 7 times } **value:=value SHL 1;{ value=2*value } Port[LCR]:=64;

dde example

2004-02-16 Thread tomsch1
ok i need to use DDE to talk to myapp.exe, i need to send the app 2 peices of data and then retrieve the result. i see stuff about server/client but i don't find anything really good at explaining what each is/does. i need an example that doesn't involve loading a file in addition to executeing

Re: I2C Bus and PCI-DIO-96

2004-02-16 Thread rgharrison
Duplicate Link: http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101RPAGEID=137HOID=5065000500345A0100HTHREAD=88628UCATEGORY_0=_31_%24_12_UCATEGORY_S=0

Re: How to write a square wave to an output pin and vary its frequency?

2004-02-16 Thread rgharrison
Hi St Augustine, This depends on the precision of your square wave and the frequency of the square wave. If the frequency and precision is low, then you can use the digital I/O on the board and control it directly through the NI-DAQ driver. If you require precision and high frequency, you can

Re: Value (Signaling) property and programmatically generate value change event?

2004-02-16 Thread Frans Verbeyst
Matthew, thanks for your feedback. Looking forward to the ActiveX equivalent of setting a Value (Signaling) Property. Would be great if NI decides to provide this event-driven power soon. Regards. Frans.

Re: Using a thermocouple, how do I get measurements with reference to time?

2004-02-16 Thread Dennis Knutson
It sounds like you're not correctly updating the array of x values that contain the time. Unless your acquisition time is not constant, then it's usually easier to use a graph or chart for plotting something versus time. It's pretty automatic then instead of having to do some coding. Could you

How do I read the TDS 210 scope and have it show on Labview

2004-02-16 Thread JonnyF
I am using a TDS 210 and I am trying to read the signal from the oscilloscope to labview. I tried using the Getting Started 2.vi option, but this does not work. This vi just resets everything on the TDS 210 and then takes data. All I want is to read the data on the TDS 210 without doing

Re: how to test for cold soldering?

2004-02-16 Thread chutla
The DMM test is good, if you can wiggle or stress the connection while measuring the resistance. It's always best to avoid cold solder connections in the first place. Never never EVER blow on a solder connection to cool it off faster. This is a surefire guarantee of a cold connection. Also,

Re: Instrument I/O assistant doesn't show terminals

2004-02-16 Thread TommyTestBoy
I tried to reproduce your problem but everything worked on my machine. When you ran the Driver CD after installing LabVIEW - did you do a typical install (which would install DAQ)? Or did you deselect DAQ and only install Instrument Control pieces?

Re: Time error between two waveforms

2004-02-16 Thread C. Allen Weekley
Sean, Thank you for the reply. I should go back to my client to see if they can give me a more specific definition, but the approach I thought of was as you described, subtracting the difference in times at the same amplitude. But, one problem is that there could be many places where the

Program for webcam, not camera. (workable program)

2004-02-16 Thread huh
I receive some site but they can't work. Therefore, I was wondering is there any good program or site that can use LabView with the webcam that can publish it online. Thanks

Re: maximum input frequency of the PCI-6014?

2004-02-16 Thread St Augustine
Ron that was extemely useful information, however for this application i am using digital inputs and reconstructing the waveform in labview. i guess this would make the problem i am having more clear. can i vary the sampling rate for digital inputs in measurements and explorer?

Re: Question about slow rs232 equipment

2004-02-16 Thread shoneill
It's quite easy. You split the string you want to send into an array of characters, and then using a for-loop write each character one at a time, followed by a small wait (whatever your instrument requires). Regards Shane

Re: maximum input frequency of the PCI-6014?

2004-02-16 Thread waldemar.hersacher
Dear St Augustine, a 6014 has not the abability to do HW timed digital input sampling. The timing is always a SW timing and therefore its accuracy decreses with increasing frequncy of the sampling rate. If you need exact timing of the digital sampling you must use a 653x card. You cannot set the