Problems with 6602 device

[cschinnerling]

I have to trigger two timers with the output signal of another timer. To realise this, I connected (by help of a SCB-68) the output of timer2 (Pin32) to the gates of timer3 (Pin 64) an timer4 (Pin 61). By doing this, I'm only getting an output signal of about 2V out of all three timers instead of the needed 5V. What may I do to receive 5V output signals?

[gus]

It seems strange to me that you would only be getting 2V out of the three timers. I would suggest you try routing the signals internally to the other counters' gates. If you're using traditional daq, you might take a look at this example:

http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.DISPLAY_EPD4?p_guid=B45EACE3ECF556A4E034080020E74861&p_node=DZ52327&p_submitted=N&p_rank=&p_answer=&p_source=External

It shows how to route the output of two counters to the GATE and SOURCE of another. You can use this same code to have the output of 'timer2' go to a RTSI line and then set the GATE of the other timers to be the RTSI line.

In DAQmx, this step is much easier. You can simply specify the output of 'timer2' as the trigger source for the other two counters.

Hope th
is helps.
gus....