ComputerBoards

[RC_WEG]

Hi,
I look for a LabVIEW VI to get a simple wave from CIO-DAS1602/16 board from ComputerBoards, Inc.
Thankfully,
Ronny

[Photon_Dan]

Here's a hint: Computer Boards, Inc is now Measurement Computing.

You should really consider stepping up to a real DAQ board from NI instead of those cheap knock-offs. Oops... did I say that? 🙂

This is after-all an NI sponsored board.

Daniel L. Press
PrimeTest Corp.
www.primetest.com

[asfasff]

Is there one you can ask questions without being insulted? Or is the insult finding out after the fact that the software you paid thousands for only works with their boards? If they don't provide the functions I need now, would it then be OK to buy or design something and use it until they do?

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you want to ask about using a Computer Boards (or whatever they call themselves now) with LabVIEW, the best place to ask is the manufacturer of the board. I don't think NI has the responsibilty to write drivers for every maker of cheap DAQ knock offs. Every responsible manufacturer knows that in order to improve sales, they have to provide compatability to the industry leader - NI and LabVIEW.

[Mark A. Hanning-Lee]

Dennis Knutson wrote:
>
> If you want to ask about using a Computer Boards (or whatever they
> call themselves now) with LabVIEW, the best place to ask is the
> manufacturer of the board. I don't think NI has the responsibilty to
> write drivers for every maker of cheap DAQ knock offs. Every
> responsible manufacturer knows that in order to improve sales, they
> have to provide compatability to the industry leader - NI and LabVIEW.

Now called Measurement Computing.

If you look on their site www.measurementcomputing.com you will see the
Universal Library.

We bought one board because it has the right number of channels sampled
at the right rate for our project.

Mark

[Photon_Dan]

You must understand that I mean no insult. I work for a National Instruments Alliance Member company and I deploy DAQ solutions every day. Occasionally, I have customers who dust off some creepy DAQ board they found in a drawer and they want me to make it work in LabVIEW. It is almost always possible to do that, but it pains me bacause the creepy DAQ board lacks important features. Recently, we were forced to used an NI-alternative PCMCIA DAQ product, but they couldn't synch the way the NI RTSI does, so our customer was forced to scrap them and go the NI way. They wasted time and lots of $$$ wrestling with the silly stuff.

Remember the engineer's credo, "The right too for the right job!"

By the way, you may have paid thousdands of d
ollars for LabVIEW, but you didn't pay anything for NI-DAQ. That CB product will work fine in LabVIEW. It is a programming language, not a DAQ driver.

Sorry for the rant.

Daniel L. Press
PrimeTest Corp.
www.primetest.com

[Scott Seidman]

Photon Dan wrote in news:5065000000050000002B610000-
1012609683000@exchange.ni.com:

> You must understand that I mean no insult. I work for a National
> Instruments Alliance Member company and I deploy DAQ solutions every
> day. Occasionally, I have customers who dust off some creepy DAQ
> board they found in a drawer and they want me to make it work in
> LabVIEW. It is almost always possible to do that, but it pains me
> bacause the creepy DAQ board lacks important features. Recently, we
> were forced to used an NI-alternative PCMCIA DAQ product, but they
> couldn't synch the way the NI RTSI does, so our customer was forced to
> scrap them and go the NI way. They wasted time and lots of $$$
> wrestling with the s
illy stuff.
>
> Remember the engineer's credo, "The right too for the right job!"
>
> By the way, you may have paid thousdands of dollars for LabVIEW, but
> you didn't pay anything for NI-DAQ. That CB product will work fine in
> LabVIEW. It is a programming language, not a DAQ driver.
>
> Sorry for the rant.
>
> Daniel L. Press
> PrimeTest Corp.
> www.primetest.com
>

To a point, I agree. National has some embarassing holes in the product
line, which might force me to go with a third-party vendor.

Case in point is the PXI Analog output boards. There is a very, very slow
16 bit board, and a reasonably fast 12 bit board. I need a reasonably fast
16 bit board, and might go to another vendor for it. NI should be
embarassed that their dedicated 16 bit analog output board for PXI isn't as
fast as the D\A you can get off of their own multifunction board.

Scott

[Scott Seidman]

Photon Dan wrote in news:506500000005000000F7600000-
1012609683000@exchange.ni.com:

> This is after-all an NI sponsored board.
>

Part of it is, but the mode I interact with is the usenet, which has nothing
to do with NI.

Scott

[Randy_H]

Ronny,
Unless someone already has a VI for this application, you will need to use a Call Library Node to call the board's driver directly. LabVIEW can be used for everything else.

Randy

[JeanPierre]

Years ago I remember having bought LabVIEW drivers for a Computer Board product. They were kind of "My First VI" wrappers around their provided DLLs. Things might have changed, take a look into their catalog.