Connecting Counter hardware to DAQCard-AI-16E-4

[Ross@UL]

I am dealing with a pulse train signal produced by our hardware with varying period, and am looking to obtain the time between each lo-hi transition.

I have looked at the Count Time - Easy (DAQ-STC).vi within Labview 6 and this seems to give me what i want (the time between the events).

My question is how do i connect my hardware to my DAQCard-AI-16E-4 via the SCB-68?

This is my first time trying to work with counter/timers etc.

Any info appreciated and also other solutions to the problem that i may be overlooking.

Regards Ross

[Photon_Dan]

The SCB-68 should have shipped with a big sticker designed to fit under the top cover. Apply the sticker. Now if you look, you should see where the counter-timer connections need to be made on the screw terminals. Consult the DAQ documentation that should have been installed from your NI-DAQ CD for the definitions of the vairous pins. Make sure you only connect TTL (0-5 V) signal levels to the counter-timers. They can be damaged more easily than the analog input channels, or so I've seen.

Also, you might want to post the question over in the Multifunction I/O group.

Dan Press
www.primetest.com