Datalogging with campbell scientific CR23X

[Tiger007]

I am a graduate student at Auburn University. I am new to labview but I am eager to learn. We are researching crack susceptibility of differnt concrete mixes. We will be running tests on 24 different specimens at one time. One specimen will be a control. We will match the temperature of the other specimens to the control. We have purchased a campbell scientific CR23X micrologger to record concrete strains and temperatures. The temperatures recorded by the datalogger will be used to control a Polyscience cirulator in real time. The circulator will in turn be used to heat or cool the other concrete specimens as need. I could use some advice on how to begin programming this in labview. Thanks,

Jared

[SarahM]

Hey Jared,

I would suggest starting by determining how you're going to communicate with your hardware. You'll need to have some way maybe through Serial or GPIB to communicate with the micrologger and the cirulator. I would get the communication working in LabVIEW and then move onto programming the control side of the application. One of the best ways to get started is by looking at example programs. LabVIEW ships with a lot of example programs. In LabVIEW 7 you can go to Help >> Find Examples and then browse or search the examples. There are also a lot of examples on our website.

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I also found another posting that you may find useful.

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I hope this helps!

Sarah Miracle
National Instruments