Using RTD in PCI-6259

[vjkumar]

Hello,

        I'm trying to measure temperature using a 3-wire RTD and a PCI-6259E Data acquisition card. All the examples and tutorials that I found were using the RTD module and not using the regular DAQ. Is there a way to connect the RTD in a regular DAQ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Vijay

[Jason_D · Accepted solution]

vjkumar,

Measureing the RTD with a regular DAQ board is going to be just like measuring a voltage.  From there we will scale that voltage to useful units.  What part of the process are you having difficulty with?  Are you programming in LabVIEW?  What terminal block(s) do you have?

This is an excellent home page for all things related to DAQmx.

[vjkumar]

Thanks. I actually figured out where I was going wrong and was able to get it to talk to the PC.

Sincerely,

Vijay