A beginner with Daq-Card1200 and NI-Daq Driver

[Brianb]

I want to manually trigger data collection at 10/second and list my 4 sampled analog inputs in an XL spread sheet the simplest possible way. Please help! Examples? step by step setup?

[Sastry V.]

Hello,
My suggestion would be :

1. Take a look at the examples on triggered data acquisition.

2. Take a look at logging data to file.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sastry V
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Wilbur S.]

Hi Brianb,

There are a variety of ways to trigger data collection and import the data in to Excel. If you are more familiar with Visual Basic programming, you can use Measurement Studio for Visual Basic to make calls to NI-DAQ and return the data into Excel. Or, if you are more familiar with LabVIEW programming, you can use the examples Sastry mentioned in the other answer. For maximum flexibility and development expansion, using either software package will make things easier down the road.

If you only plan to use Excel to acquire data and do not need development flexibility, you can use a software package called Measure. One thing to be aware of is that Measure support is provided entirely through the Web (phone and e-mail support is not available for Measure).

For future development flexibility and consideration, I would recommend you to consider using either Measurement Studio (text-based programming) or LabVIEW (graphical programming).

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Wilbur Shen
Web Support and Operations
National Instruments