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The Icrons came in and they worked great. They come with their own 5VDC 1.5 A supply and it must plug into the DAQ end of the cable not the PC end. This caused another issue since the DAQ device is inside an electrical box stuffed full of other electrical equipment. I have lots of room on the PC end of the cable and it would be nice if you could connect the power supply to either end. But after cramming 2 more wall warts into the electrical box we fired it up and everything work. We are running tests overnight to make sure it will be reliable over the long term. I think for the final implementation where the cable needs to be 300ft form the DAQ device we will move to a ENET carrier. Thanks everyone for your input. Mark

Emoticons damn it! Emoticons!

I know he was But I was kind a hoping he would feel guilty and go back and click on a few posts

Hi Q, maybe the function 'Number To Boolean Array' in the 'Boolean' palette could be of interest for you, too. Regards, Frank

Another tip. If you store the folders/files with the names in a "year-month-day" format (e.g 2008-10-02), then when you browse the folders they will be sorted chronologically. If you do it day-month-year they will be all over the place.

I think it was dead anyway Indeed. I believe LV OOP was invented to give C++ programmers a warm fuzzy feeling and entice them to use Labview. The advantage for beginners that Labview brings is that they are able think in a sequential manner to start with and lay down code in the same order as their thought process when analysing problems. This means that they learn the environment a capabilities of LV quickly whilst still producing tangible results (i.e code that works) without being encumbered by how it works. Once they get used to using LV as a symbolic "scratchpad", they quickly move on to more complex subjects as a natural progression. They also don't have to worry about pointers, memory management and all the other obnoxious stuff that makes other languages so flexible so their time is spent on the problem rather than managing code. However, if you sit them down and explain that you have to spend 3 weeks writing code with (from their point of view) no discernible benefit apart from being able to make other code work. They quickly get confused, frustrated and bored. If they can sit down and in 10 minutes turn a light on and off, or make the computer beep every time they walk past it.....then you have an audience This is true. But when it doesn't give you what you were expecting, then you do! Just because a program contains objects (C++ .net or anything) doesn't mean it is an object orientated program. Non OOP programmers view these objects as "functions" to extract whatever data they need. They (I? ) mainly view them as a container with specialised features not dissimilar to a vi with a case statement that enables selection of a series of sub vis. This view is far less abstract and easier to digest for virgin programmers.

A while ago I was faffing around with mobile phones and knocked this up. Should be a good guide to what you want to do.

I knocked up a quick version of what I was talking about earlier about creating "views" of logged data. If you were to use it you would still need to figure out how to get "Month" data in properly and slide the scale (don't want to do all your work ) But should give you an idea.