joystick relay control usb 6009

[kingsgambit1943]

Thanks

I ve done the wiring and I have to the robot arm as of this morning.  Although it is not working- I think the relay is faulty, or my lack of wiring prowress.  Anyhow I would just like to know if you have to turn the DAQ output off after registering one of the events.  I previously had made just a switch attached to a daq assist and generated the voltage by just flipping the switch up and down. When you register an event and the daq outputs the voltage afterwards does it automatically switch off after it leaves the event case and becomes false on the next iteration?  I dont believe that it does so I tried wiring in a timeout.  Is there a "preferred" way of doing this?  

Thank you all for all the help.  

[RavensFan]

A DAQ output will not automatically switch off.   (If it did, how would it know how long to remain on?)  It will remain at putting out the last value written to it until another value is written to it.

So if you want to turn it off, you will have to explicitly tell it to go off by writing a zero to it (or false depending on the type of output).

[kingsgambit1943]

I m thinking to just wire a off to the false.  Why I think itll work- the joystick has very sensitive motion tracking most ranges are from -30000 to +30000 in each plane. Therefore every motion to the joystick should fire the value change and as long as its over 1000 there will be output.  When the value falls below 1000 it will be false and itll excute the false where I will put a DAQ assist with a off function.  

However the DAQ is malfunctioning it is no longer outputting voltages - something wrong with the DAQ itself it was working earlier but no longer Ive already contacted NI.

I will let all of you know how the project goes when I get everything wired up and set.  Thanks for all the help again, made my labview experience truly enriching.