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Generate a single 5 volt digital signal

Unfortunately, it still isn't working. Our box was purchased in 1995 so it might be a little different from yours. Currently, we have BNC cables coming out of the top of the control box as our analog input into the DAQ (see pg 2 of the pdf). We were told that in order to acquire data using the BNC cables, we had to send in a trigger using the 9 pin digital. Our system is this: force plates are attached to control box via 37 pin connections, control box is attached to DAQ via BNC cables and DAQ is attached to computer via USB. It seems like in your system your box is connected directly to your computer.
As suggested, I used the DMM to test the all of the wires coming from my DAQ and going into the digital 9 pin connection, and I'm reading 5V regardless of whether the VI is running or not.
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Please pay attention. Disconnect all wires. Go into MAX and open the test panel. Connect your DMM to gnd and DO0 (pins 17 and 32 I think). It was NOT suggested to run anything in LabVIEW.
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Sorry, I just looked at that pdf again and now I see your operate pin is 23, which is the same as the box I use, just newer. Ok now I think I have it figured out. You need to send 5V to pin 1 of the digital connector. So from your DAQ box, you need to pick any digital channel you want (what DAQ you using?). Also you need to connect the digital ground to pin 5. Now once you figure out how to make the pin read 5 volts, I suggest just using digital pin 0, you can then connect it to Pin 1 (for both force plates) digital connector. And to test that it is working, without the forceplate connected, also prob pin 23 on the 37 forceplate connector and you should see 5v there also. I am 99% sure this is what you have to do. However you need to do the basics of learning how to write a high signal to a digital pin. From reading your posts, it seems it is always 5V. How are you planning to feed the 5v into that digital connector? I suggest taking an old DP9 cable, cut off the end you don't need, then figure out the wires that match the pins and wire all 9 wires into your daq ( then you can control the range of the force plate). I hope this makes some sense, but like I said, first step is to figure out how to change digital level (suggest search Digital in the example finder, and use the write digital channel example).

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