USB 6009 in Lab View 5.1 possible or did I waste the companies money?

[RTSLVU]

I just receved a USB-6009 and it does not show up in the LAb View 5.1 DAQ wizard?

Is there anyway I can make this work?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Nope. The device requires DAQmx (or DAQmx base) and require LabVIEW 7.0 as a minimum.

[RTSLVU]

Curse you NI

I could have gone with http://www.measurementcomputing.com/ or http://www.dataq.com/ both offer USB-DAQ at the same price points with Lab View 5.1 support.

But noooooo, I said "Lets just get the NI one since it's the same price. Then we will be guarenteed Lab View compatability".

So I need this thing to take a couple voltage measurments every five minutes for six months straight, and save it to a file.

Is there anyway to do this with the supplied software?

[Dennis_Knutson]

It comes with a program called VI Logger. I've never used it so I can't really comment on it.

[Jeff_T.]

RTSLVU,

VI Logger Lite is a piece of logging software that came with your DAQ device.  You can create a DAQmx Task in Measurement and Automation Explorer, set the sample rate to be 1/120 or 0.008333 Hz, and then use VI Logger Lite to run the task and display your data.  The 6009 will then take one sample every two minutes.  Whenever you stop your task, your data will be exported to an excel file.

I obtained a USB-6009 and logged a few hours of temperature data just to make sure that there would be no complications. Here is a link to the VI Logger Users Guide and a KB that talks about the difference between VI Logger and VI Logger Lite.  I believe that all of the features offered in VI Logger Lite will be adequate for your application.  Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help as you work with these two products.

Best Regards,

Jeff Tipps
Applications Engineer
National Instruments