Hello everyone,
I want to start explaining that I'm really new to NI products and LabVIEW, and I am currently reading through the Core 1 Materials that a friend lent me. I am working in a project that is looking to acquire the pavement response in a currently in-service highway. To do this, a test section was instrumented with 3 earth pressure cells, 4 strain gages and 2 thermocuples. I have availble a NI cDAQ-9174 and the following modules: NI 9235 (strain gages), NI 9213 (thermocuples) and a NI 9201 (pressure cells). The sensors would go connected to the mentioned modules in the cDAQ, and everything would be controlled through a LabVIEW VI.
As part of some initial testing, I connected all 9 sensores to the DAQ and used LabVIEW's DAQ Assistant to get some preliminary data measurements and save them into separate TDMS files. Since I was looking to continually get 1 sample every 0.001 seconds (Acquisiton Mode: Continuous Samples, Samples to read: 1, Rate (Hz): 1000), I could not get any data due to buffer size issues (LabVIEW displayed an error due to insufficient buffer size). In the end, I could only get decent measures with only the 3 earth pressure sensors connected and acquiring data at a rate of 1 sample every 0,004 s (250 Hz).
Due to this, I'm guessing that I have to use NI DAQmx functions and assign a buffersize for each sensor individually, with this I could also use different sample rates for each (Thermocuples need to only get 1 sample every second). But, my main worry is that even if I do this, due to the high frequency of acquisiton and my planned mesurement time (4 hours for now), what I'm trying to do might not be reallistically possible.
So, besides the needed storage for the generated TDMS files, is it possible to achieve what I want with my current equipment (DAQ, modules, etc.) and using LabVIEW, while also taking into account that in the future I might need to up the frequency to 2000 Hz and mesaure for a straight 24 hours.
I appreciate any help on the matter. If you can also throw in some advice o anything I should have to consider with my project, you are welcome to do so and I will greatly appreciate it.
Finally, apologies if I posted this in the wrong section of the board, but it seemed like the right place regarding my inquiries.
Thanks in advance!