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Why would a PXI 4071 measuring resistance countinue to increase the measured valued for each measurement?

I have  a PXI-4071 DMM and I am measuring a connection in the UUT. The value should be around 0.3 ohms. The program (exe) will run aprox. 20 times and during these 20 runs the measured value will progressively increase until is is over the limit of 1.5 ohms. If I shut down the exe and run the VI as a standalone (continuous loop), the resistance will gradually come down to 0.3 ohms. I then close LabView and restart my exe and the readings are normal (0.3) but then continue to increase until they are over 1.5 ohms. This process has been repeatable for the last week. I have attached the code I am running. What could be the problem with the DMM code?
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Hi JayB,
   I was unable to correctly open your VI, you should include subVI.... thanks!

graziano
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The sub VIs are the NI-DMM VIs version 2.5.1.

If you do not have these drivers on your machine then you will not be able to open the VI I attached.

Also, the version of LV  that I am using is 7.1.1.

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Uninitialized shift registers are a good thing to check for such a problem.  Do you see the same response with a soft panel and your DMM?  if not then it is in code.  Uninitialized shift registers would start at 0 (default is usually 0) and will retain their values from run to run.  Just a possibility dont have LV up right now so I cant check the code sorry,

 

Paul

Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA
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