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Mouse movement adds noise to acquisition with count edges

I am doing a program that consist on count the pulses of a TTL signal. The problem is that when i move the mouse over the elements of the Front Panel some undiserable and significant counts appear.  I have no ideia why this happens. Do you have any sugestion? 

 

Thanks in advance.

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How are you counting the pulses?  Can you show your code?


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Hows your hardware setup? Where is your signal source coming from, and are you using shielded cables? 

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Shure i can show you the code, but it´s a bit confusing.

 

I start the task outside the loop with "DAQmx Create Channel  (CI Count Edges).vi"

 

And start/stop de task with "DAQmx Start Task.vi"/"DAQmx Stop Task.vi"

 

Read the values with "DAQmx Read (Counter U32 1Chan 1 Samp).vi" on a case structure with a feedback node. The DAQ count the number of edges during a certain amount of time, like 10 ms, and then print the value.

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Chantastic!,

 

What do you mean by hardware setup? It´s how i  create the channel on NIMAX? 

 

The signal comes from a Function Generator on TTL mode. And yes, the cables are shielded, they are normal coaxial cables.

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Your code is really difficult to debug. Would it be possible for you to run a test using only example code for a counter? At the very least, can you save a new test copy of your code, and start removing functionality until you can narrow it down to a smaller portion of your code where you can recreate this issue?

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