Recording time on the Save to ASCII%2FLVM step

[Intec]

To Ni application engineers:

I have Signal Express 3.0, and I would like to find out if there are ways to put real time stamp (or relative time based on DAQ rate).   We would like the time stamp to be in the 1st column in Excel along with the mean statistical data on the right side of it.   (See attached project file for detail)

Time |   Load  |  Stroke  | Strain 1  |  Strain 2 |     .....and so on

Our clients been constantly asking us about this, and we just not able to give them a good answer due to the fact that signal express 3.0 doesn't give such option.  This is quite urgent, and I hope you guys can help.

If the newer version of  signal express can do such task, we would be interested in an upgrade.   I would assume the newer version will run on Windows7 Professional 64bit.

Thanks in advance for this matter.

Kin Chu

Integrated Technologies, Inc

[J-Barticus]

Hi Kin,

Unfortunately SignalExpress does not have the capability to export the real time to Excel. Using Xo and DeltaX to calculate the absolute timestamp in Excel is likely the best option.

Additionally, you can create a 'Save to ASCII/LVM' step that will log the data to a TDMS file and you can save the time as relative or absolute. However, the absolute time is given in the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1904 (as explained here: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/69CABEE9F0BA9A6586256B41006B0BBB?OpenDocument).

-Jake B.