I have an NI USB-6210 that I'm using for data acquisition through LabView. Everything is working great on the analog input side, but now I'm experimenting with a nice-to-have feature in my experiment.
I have an acoustic source attached to a power supply, which is triggered by a small box that sends short square wave pulses at fixed intervals. I'm not sending an acoustic signal, it's just being triggered to close two plates, which generate the sound of interest. I believe that all the trigger box is doing is using some very low powered square wave to trigger the power supply to send voltage to the source, but not sending a particularly large signal itself. I'm wondering if I might be able to do this using my DAQ? Can I use the digital output to send something to the power supply in a similar manner? Or do I need analog output capabilities (which the USB-6210 does not have)?
In an ideal world, I have a program that, upon execution, sends a signal to trigger the source, and simultaneously begins recording for a fixed time (~5s), which I run continuously on repeat.
Thanks!
