Our department has decided to expand our DAQ system. We currently use KineticSystems V200 boards and DAQ Director to control our DAQ system. However, we are purchasing quite a few PXI-1045 Chasses and loading them up to expand our DAQ system. However, we still want to be able to use our Kinetics V200 boards, so we purchased a MXI-2 board and are able to connect. We are using Windows XP to communicate by the way.
When we first put in the card and installed the KineticSystems drivers and VIs we were fine. I am able to take data and everything. However, once in a while, the V200 board will disappear from MAX when we run the Resource manager. Then sometimes it will think it's made by another manufacture (AMP, Inc.) then will disappear on the next run of Resource Manager. To bring the board back, the only way I have found to work is to manually power cycle our VXI crate for sometimes up to 30 minutes! This is DEFINITELY not going to cut it, especially since we will be using 3 fully loaded VXI crates. Does anyone else have any ideas why this could be happening or what I can do about this?
Thanks,
Michael