USB-6210

[ben3000]

Hi!

We just bought a USB-6210 DAQ device which we could proper install and it is also nicely listed in the NI device Monitor.

So, we just connected the 6210 via USB to our Win7 Pro, 64bit machine and wanted to see if its works.

We opened NI Max (Ver. 14.5), our device is recognized and we opened a "Test Panel". We should see nothing but noise as we didn´t connect anyhing at all to the device. But we see a lot of crazy things. Our analog inputs are starting to raise and to saturate at around 11V. Some other inputs decrease from 11V slowly towards 0....

However, we connected a photoreceiver (thorlabs) to aquire some signals....nothing is showing just all the same strange signals.

We switched back to our USB-6000 device and everything works. With the USB-6210 we do not get anything.

Any ideas?

thanks

[Dennis_Knutson · Accepted solution]

The readings you see with nothing connected are expected. When you do connect a signal, what is your configuration (diff, rse, etc) and what is your wiring? It sounds like you have selected one configuration but your wiring does not match so you still have an open.

[ben3000]

Hi there....

I removed all the wires again (this might be the 10th time 😉 ) and now it works.

And I might be indeed that I involuntary used as Input Configuration "differential" instead of "RSE"...

Anyway, because your hint I had and eye on it and checked this and found the mistake...

Thanks!