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9236 Strain Frequency Wrong

I am using a cdaq-9174 w/9236 on SignalExpress and cannot acquire at my required frequency of 50 Hz continuously. Up till now my other modules for thermocouples and voltage are all straightforward: set to continuous, rate to 50, then sampling to 5-10 or so. Writing to ASCII gives appropriate rows of data matching 50 Hz. For this module, it always writes much more, and varying the sampling rate has a big effect on it (could be 150, 250 Hz, just depends). The acquisition occurs over a 2 day period so it is imperative to have a set rate. I just cant understand why it would be different from my other modules. Any ideas? Is there something in the timing tab?
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Hi AhnJimC,

 

It looks like the minimum specified sampling rate of the 9236 is 794 Hz using its internal timebase, per the datasheet.  If an external timebase was used, the card could clock down to around 195 Hz.  This is largely a function of the type of ADC that the card uses (a Delta-Sigma ADC) rather than your standard multiplexed ADC.  Regarding ways to best handle it, you could probably write all of your data to file (sampled around 800 Hz) and just use every 16th value. 

 

Matt | NI Systems Engineering
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