Mantracourt DAQ system can work with labview?

[Nuno_Gonçalves]

Hello,

I have a data acquisition system to strain gages from mantracourt which comes with software that allows you to save data in excel, but such software is

somewhat limited, it's not possible to change many parameters such as acquisition rate, filter, trigger etc, I wonder is there any way to create an application in

labview for this system, I have dll file from mantracourt that can be modified, but I do not understand very much. some help please.

[ElRambo]

Hi Nuno,

What is the exact reference of your instrument ?

What kind of communication link is available with your instrument ? GPIB ? USB ? Ethernet ? WiFi ?

If Mantracourt provides a SDK or DDK you will be able to create your own application to control your instrument with the specs provided.

If it doesn't you will have to "reverse-engineer" it.

Also I invite your to go to www.ni.com/idnet and look if there is already a driver for your instrument.

Have a nice day.

Regards,

[Nuno_Gonçalves]

Hi,

thanks for your reply, my equipament is a T24-SAf aquisition board, i have a base station conected to the laptop through USB but the T24 board comunicates with the base station with wi-fi.

Mantracourt provides two kinds of DLL, onde is called MantraASCII2 DLL e MantraBUS2 DLL, the link to the webpage where this is follows here http://www.mantracourt.co.uk/software  .

i coudn't find my device on the NI page.

thanks

[ElRambo]

Hello,

With the DLL that are provided by your instrument's manufacturer you have a lot of examples that shows how to program your own application for controlling it under C:\Program Files\MantraBus2Drv\Examples

This shouldn't be complicated to do if you have a look at it !

Have a nice day !

Regards,