vi for use with Atomic Absorption Spectrometer?

[Dan Brown]

I have just gotten a Perkin Elmer 303 atomic absorption spectrometer,
which came with an ~ 1963 Beckman 10" wide strip chart recorder as an
output, that has 1, 10 and 100 millivolts full scale spans and several
chart speeds
I want to use LabVIEW 8 to collect the atomic absorption data with this
instrument , and want to know what vi's might be available- so I do not
have to invent it myself.
So it will be a voltage Vs time situation, with the time on the original
recorder being given by the chart speed.

Thanks in advance.
Dan

[Jonnie_5]

If you're using any NI digital to analog converter boards, they come with tons of vi's to do just this.  What are you planning to use for a DAQ board? 

Once you decide on a board and install the appropiate software (e.g., NI-DAQ), the proper example libraries will be installed into labview.  Then you can just use the example finder to select some version of doing an analog input.  You can probably find other examples on ni.com by searching for Continuous Analog Input.  This isn't specific to AA, it's just a simple voltage measurement, and a 'relatively' slow one at that (you don't need more than a couple Hz to keep up w/ a strip chart recorder).

I'd bet the NI sales people would love to give you more (and more specific) info.

~j5