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hahahahaahahahah ohhh what a twist of fate this is. I go from it complaining that the one from NI is too new, to this one which is too old to convert. I however found a version on the site for labview 5 that does work. It looks a bit too complex for me (i'm just a high school student with almost no programming experience!). I might drop back to my fallback plan which is to switch my GPS to text mode, where it dumps out the time, lat and long only in ascii format, and from there have it parse the output. I'll probably have a bunch of questions since i'm starting from nowhere, but at least this is a start! Again, thanks a lot for the help. The site of our fuel cell car project is DHS Fuel Cell Project

Did some quick poking around, looks like there isn't much reason why 7.0 wont support it. Anyone mind re-saving it for me as 7.0 compatible? Worst-case, I set my GPS to output to text, and parse the output as a string.

Its from NI. Here's the link to the page about it. I'm running 7.0 Student Edition on Windows XP

I'm doing a project for school, and I need a library that can read a NEMA stream coming from my GPS. Theres one on the NI site, but its for Labview 7.1 and I def. can't afford to upgrade to that.

thanks, I'll try that when the order comes in.

oh I know about the shunt. We use one for the ammeter on the panel we have now. My question is what I would use to measure the flow accross the shunt and get that info into labview

Yeah, its a DC Current i've got to measure. The fuel cell will output 1200 watts of DC current, and it will max out at 50 amps at 24 volts. I don't need anything precise, just something that will say 'hey, you're at 49 amps. slow down!'. It'll have to be an off-the-shelf solution, b/c i need to have someone to complain to when it doesn't work. I'm using the USB 4-analog input (I think 12-bit), since thats what we can afford at this point

Okay, here goes. I'm the head of IT for the fuel cell car project at our school (you can see our work at the site that I run for it: DHS Fuel Cell Project). The software supplied w/ the fuel cell itself was created in Labview, however it was packaged in an executable, so I can't add my own modules into it. For the second phase of the project, I intend to design and implement a digital dashboard, with all of the variables and vital statistics that the driver needs to know about. Since the software that came with the fuel cell was Labview, I decided to go with that. In the past week, the electrical engineering group has decided to implement a hybrid power system, with the fuel cell charging the battery for an extra push. Although the fuel cell has voltage and amperage draw sensors on board, they only sense the current that its generating. I need to monitor the current being drawn from the battery bank and input it into labview, however I can't seem to find the sensors that I need. Because of size/cost concerns, we're going with the $415 USB interface with 4 analog inputs, and I would like to know what sensors I would need to use with that. Anyone's help will be GREATLY appreciated.