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1 - the "looking" PC has to have the runtime engine installed.

2 - your "publishing" PC has to upload it via an open port (in Europe, 80 is blocked)

3 - the "looking" pc has to be able to look at the same port (where I work, only 80 is possible)

1) Sorry, for looking it's not needed, but for controlling a control or knob I definitly needed it.

2) Is so. Arguments of "surfing the web" are irrelevant. I don't know (exacly) why it is blocked

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If I understand right, the pcmcia-usb on 95/98 only will support the most mainstream things.

Is it then so, that WinXp also does only this, but is more upgradable? Or comes it by default with everything?

Thanks for the explanation, kudo is sent.

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I had the same problem.

Including excel files to read, coming from different pc's (some "." other ",")

Then communicating with different RS232 devices, some read both "," and ".", some not.

What they write was for some ".", for others ","

I made 2 subvi's: commatopoint.vi and pointtocomma.vi, with strings as in-and output.

Strings because that's the way RS232 speaks and listens, and it's the in-output of the excel files.

I made them myself (don't know if they exist) to better handle exceptions.

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The way I did it: ( I don't understand Xcontrols )

Image of the clock on the frontpanel without Pendulum

Pendulum in a gif file.

My 1st vi rotates the pendulum.gif 360 times one degree, these 360 images are saved in an image array.

The 2nd vi just uses this image array. Depending on the value (ex43), it shows the 43d element (picture) of the array.

Border of the array is made transparent, background of pendulum.gif also.

Because with the USB interface in your computer you are possibly not even halfway done. You need the driver too. Maybe the device installs itself as USB-COMM device which modern computers will install as virtual RS-232. But I'm really not sure USB was that major and far along when Windows 98 was released so even if the device is a USB-COMM class device the Windows 98 computer may not recognize and install it as Windows serial port device.

If it is not an USB-COMM class device then you would need the according system drivers for Windows 98 (.vxd which are different than the drivers needed for NT based Windows systems such as 2000, XP and newer) and then also create a Modula2 module to access that driver.

But manufacturing a device that is produced in 200 pieces a year at 40 $ each does not sound like a good business to me either.

Sorry, I don't understand anything of it, because I dont' have the right knowledge level.

I just plugged an PCMCIA-USB card in an old win 95 Laptop, so I could share my pictures on an usb stick.

Later on, I did that with a PCI-USB card on a win2000 desktop. Both worked directly, after installing the driver from CD

I understood he just wanted usb on an old PC, no?

From LV 8.5 to 2009, I also have this problem.

Sometimes very slow to save

Sometimes very slow to load

Sometimes very slow to run

Sometimes very slow to close

Sometimes not

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The basic things, like in the examples, worked. Other things not every time.

The I upgraded (LV 8.0 to 8.2 or 8.2 to 8.5, don't know anymore) and everything stopped working.

I like my Labview generated HTML code much more and there are no surprises.

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Me also, I had tons of trouble with the Excel reporting.

After a few days I quit.

Now I save to csv (raw data) and jpg (export of graphs) and later on, I create a nice HTML document.

At least the HTML code is "open", and reads +-the same way in all browsers.

The HTML page links to pictures, text, numbers, colors, layout, all generated by the VI.

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Some things to keep in mind:

1 - the "looking" PC has to have the runtime engine installed.

2 - your "publishing" PC has to upload it via an open port (in Europe, 80 is blocked)

3 - the "looking" pc has to be able to look at the same port (where I work, only 80 is possible)

the combination of 2 and 3 make it impossible for me to do that.

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What you want, is not smoothing, but filtering.

In filtering, many theories exist. With or without Mathematics, depends on your study.

Please learn more about filtering, decide what and how you want to filter in or out.

Then ask the specific question on how to do this specific filtering in LV.

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I connected a 30eur Logitech webcam to Labview, using some free drivers I found on these boards.

I made 3 things with it:

-Height check and control of a cam profile.

-Home alarm saving an image when the IR detector commands.

-3D scanner from a form on a rotating table.

Max speed was +-20Hz, far good enough for my experiments

Results were depending of the same as high-end 10K eur cameras for machine vision:

Everything depends of the light.

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Everything depends on your budget, and specifications needed.

Do I understand right that you already have a function generator?

What are it's in- and outputs? Can it be tweaked?

For me, 2 solutions:

1) High budget and expectations: Buy some expensive NI-card

2) Low Budget and expectations: Do the communications DC-Voltage-based.

With the very cheap USB-6008 card you have 12-bit precision, so 4096 steps between 0 and 5 V

Use only signals between 1 and 4 volt, so you still have 2457 steps (0.04%)

0 to 40 KHZ is now possible in steps of 16Hz. 1,5 Volt gives you 6.66kHz

Of course, you need to have a DC-interface, or build one. Sometimes, the big knob in front is just a potentiometer.

Same thing for the feedback.

Take care of ground loops and signal filtering

Success !!

Hi,

I have a USB 6009. I'm trying to trigger a pump by outputting 5 volts over a GND and DIO channel. I only seem to be getting 1.9V (measured by voltmeter)

Is it possible to increase the voltage output on a DIO on a USB 6009 in Max? Is there a hardware work around?

Thanks.

This device gives max 5 Volt. When it doesn't, it's broken, or you need more current.

The hardware workaround is a power transistor. Many configurations and models exist, depending on what you want. It's very cheap.

When you're in a college, ask the specialised professor, when not, look at specialised sites. Too hard to explain in 5 words here.

http://www.google.be/search?q=transistor+amplifier

The way you ask your question doesn't tell me what you already know/have.

Try these words in Google:

-Ni USB Daq 6008

-H-bridge

-Diodes

-Voltage source

-Transistor Current amplification

Success !!

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Why not PCI to Usb, or in the case of an old laptop, a PCMCIA to USB converter?

RS232 has too little possibilities to decently drive all USB devices,

where PCI and PCMCIA have less problems with it.

Costs 10 to 40 eur

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QUOTE (shoneill @ Apr 13 2009, 02:24 PM)

But it's not, I'm pretty sure it's C, thus adding to the confusion.

So many interpretations....

I think a linguistics degree should be ...

My CLAD result is only 58%, where i am totally sure to know really enough to get easily 90%

While doing the test, my major problem was understanding some terms,

and trying to understand the real difference between some answers.

English is only my 3rd language, most of it I know from songs and movies.

I'm curious to see how much CLA architects would succeed the CLAD in their 3rd language...

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In the Open office version of Word, there is a "create PDF" button.

I didn't check, but I think it must be there in their Excel version too.

a free, simple, quick solution, without logo (some free pdf converters include a logo or watermark)

I don't know if there is any automatisation possible, easy or difficult, it's only a tip.

Nice to have such a direct way.

We do the same, connect a PC to an Omron PLC with usb, but with a workaround.

OPC server works as the dataserver, both Labview and PLC are clients for datasharing, using global variables.

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You can even do it for free.

The soundcard, parallel and serial port are accessible in Labview, and can be used as I/O.

For example, with the microphone input you can measure AC signals, like the speed af a car using the tacho signal

Your problem makes me think of the different settings: Differtial or RSI (? Don't know exact name.)

When you put it to differential, 2 inputs are used as input one.

If you want to initialise the second input, without knowing it's already used, labview shows: already used.

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I work for a long time with the 6008.

I don't see any usb device as industrial relyable. It's more for rapidly connecting unsynchronised data.

For testing etc it's perfect.

Go for some PCI or com device.

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On the way you ask your question, and the question itself,

I see you absolutely don't have the basics of electricity, like AC/DC, power, safety etc.

This will surely lead to dangerous situations.

For me, the best way to go for you, is:

Install a remote controlled dimmer, or let it install, following the included instructions.

http://www.ryness.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=2074

Also buy the controller for such a dimmer:

http://www.ryness.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=3806

Now you can experiment on the controller, it's the safe site.

You can open the remote control, as it's battery operated, it's low voltage.

Here you can replace a switch with a contact of your USB-DAQ module.

You will have an expense of +-30 dollars. Depending of your age this can be a lot of money,

but compare it to the value of a burned house, where the insurance refuses payment, or a death.

Succes with your projects !

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