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If NI already has the product, please let me know. I need it in my project. If otherwise, I would like to suggest NI to develope one based its NI-9234 and WLS-9163. It can be readily developed by just remove three channels of the NI-9234 and make a smaller version of WLS-9163 for one channel. I would like the product be one unit to achieve a small size. The one channel wireless data aquisition module will have two imporatnt advantages: 1) much smaller size, therefore can be fit into difficult locations; 2) much lower power consumption, therefore can make much longer recording. These two advantages are essential for wireless measurement, thus the product will have good market potential.

usb-6008 PGA

Standard wiring examples.

I'm not sure who reads this, but I'm not seeing any feedback in the forum so I thought I'd post up here. This may seem like a simple thing, but hopefully my pain will be someone else gain. I messed with this off and on for two months before I finally figured it out. It's probably obvious to those who work with this equipment every day and have EE degrees, but not so much to those of us who do not.

Please see http://forums.ni.com/t5/Multifunction-DAQ/Measuring-220VAC-with-CompactDAQ/td-p/1145956 for a description of the issues I was having.

Some will tell me to "search"... well, I did. ...and everywhere I looked all I found was that I needed to measure from the power leg to ground. All of the examples either were only measuring 120 which is fine since what you have is one power leg and neutral... which is basically ground! So those numbers come out fine. Or they were for 3 phase, which I don't use currently. BUT when you try and measure anything with two power legs (basically anything between 208VAC to 240 VAC) the numbers don't work out right if you try to measure between each power leg to ground and then try to recombine them and plug them into the Power VI's. Not one place that I looked did it tell me that I need to measure both power legs across a single channel. I only finally tried it because I'd done pretty much everything else. I know this is pretty basic stuff, but when all you give me says one thing... that's what we do. Just trying to help others.

Thanks,

Chad

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Single channel Wi Fi (wireless) data acquisition module

usb-6008 PGA

NI USB-443x _5 channels with software-selectable IEPE signal conditioning (0 or 2.1 mA)

Standard wiring examples.

NI USB-TC01 ambient temperature