Using daqpad 6016 as traditional nidaq device in place of SCB-68 and daqpad 6020e?

[jarencibia]

Is it possible to configure the daqpad 6016 as a traditional nidaq device? I have an application that was created 3 years ago that uses a SCB-68 for signal conditioning and it's connected to daqpad 6020E. Two virtual channels are used by the application which measure displacement and pressure from the analog inputs.  I also have 3 daqpad 6016s here that were intended to be used with the application mentioned above for duplicate test stations, but they appear as nidaqmx devices and are not compatible with the application created apparently.

 I'm a newbie with labview and I don't have the source code for the application to modify. If I can't use the 6016 daqpads with the application as is I'll have to order duplicates of the scb-68 and daqpad 6020E. Thank you.

[PBear]

Hi jarencibia,

The DAQpad 6016 is only supported under the DAQmx driver and not the Traditional DAQ driver. For a good reference to DAQ driver support for all of our DAQ products across multiple OS versions, you can refer to the link below in my signature. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

[jarencibia]

   Thank you, I'm using two analog in channels,  how difficult would it be to convert the application to use nidaq mx if I have the source code?

[PBear]

Hi jarencibia,

It depends on the complexity of the application to determine how difficult it would be. The API is not a 1 to 1 conversion but check out the following article for a start.

Transition from Traditional NI-DAQ to NI-DAQmx in LabVIEW
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4342