Add Signal Conditioning Box to NI MAX

[RyanHamel]

Hi All,

After searching for literal weeks, I am unable to find how to add my SC-2345 to NI MAX. The SC-2345 User Manual and all other resources specify to right click on Devices & Interfaces and click "Create New" and use the NI-DAQmx SCC Connector Block category to choose your box. I do not have that category, all I have is Network, Simulated, and the NI-RTSI Cable options. I also added Port, VISA, and GPIB through desperate driver downloads hoping I would stumble across it.

I am using the most recent version of NI DAQ-MX (2023 Q4) and a PCI-6221 on Windows 10 x64 if that helps.

Thanks!

[Bob_Schor]

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@RyanHamel wrote:

Hi All,

After searching for literal weeks, I am unable to find how to add my SC-2345 to NI MAX. The SC-2345 User Manual and all other resources specify to right click on Devices & Interfaces and click "Create New" and use the NI-DAQmx SCC Connector Block category to choose your box. I do not have that category, all I have is Network, Simulated, and the NI-RTSI Cable options. I also added Port, VISA, and GPIB through desperate driver downloads hoping I would stumble across it.

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The SC-2345 appears to date from the first decade of this century, and might be designed to work with NI DAQ (as opposed to NI DAQmx).  If this is the case, having the latest version of DAQmx on Windows 10 might be "part of the problem".  Can you verify that your SC-2345 is of "recent vintage" and designed to run on "within-the-last-10-years" LabVIEW installations?

Bob Schor

[RyanHamel]

Hi Bob,

The, probably outdated, information available from NI themselves is that the device is compatible with all recent versions. I will try installing NI DAQ instead though, and report back. Thanks so much for your help!

[Kyle97330]

"NI DAQ" last worked with Windows 7 32-bit, I believe.

Also, the manual for the SC-2345 does show DAQmx support, though for a much older version.

This thread from 2011 indicates DAQmx 8.7.1 supported it:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Multifunction-DAQ/Misconfigured-SC-2345-and-PCI-6221/td-p/1751104

However I am not going to look at the changelog for every DAQmx version between then and now to see when support dropped.  You might just try installing the oldest version of DAQmx you can get to work on your system and see if it works with that version.  You should be able to go back to at least 2015, maybe farther.

[RyanHamel · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

After uninstalling some current NI software, primarily NI-MAX and installing NI-DAQ 15.5.1, I have the options available to me that I needed! I hope this thread hopes someone else in the future as I was struggling to find anyone else with the same issue as I had.

To anyone with the same issue:

1. uninstall your current NI software (should only need to uninstall NI MAX, but not to sure)

2. install the oldest version of NI-DAQ that your OS supports at https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html

-Mine was 15.5.1 for Windows 10 x64, but I have doubts if 2022 Q3 (oldest version for Windows 11) will work, let me know if it does!

3. Open NI-MAX and you should now have the "Devices and Interfaces -> Create New -> SCC Connector Block" option!

[rolfk]

The cutoff point likely is somewhere around 2019/2020. On September 2018 NI discontinued a whole bunch of signal conditioning hardware, including the SC-2345 and the according SCC modules and other SC related devices.