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Data Acquisition - Interfaceable DVM

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Eric
Fri May 04 2007, 11:43PM Print
Eric Registered Member #69 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 07:42AM
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I'm trying to find a cheapish device to do data collection to a PC. Ideally it'd function as a multi-channel DVM, can measure V+R, autoranging capability, etc. that I can control from a VB, C program. I don't need a fast sampling rate. Any bright ideas?
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Fri May 04 2007, 11:47PM
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Well, a cheap PIC w/ inegrated A/D and usb or serial (your choice) would work pretty well...

Short of that, a protek 506 (among many others, I believe the 506 is the cheapest) gives you any function of a decent volt meter out a serial port.
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ShawnLG
Sat May 05 2007, 06:44AM
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Dataq sells some cheap data acquisition units.
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Avi
Sat May 05 2007, 07:52AM
Avi Registered Member #580 Joined: Mon Mar 12 2007, 03:17PM
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I have made this using an ET-ARM board (LPC2119 microcontroller) and programming it in C to interface with a Visual Basic program I made for the PC. It uses a serial link.
1178351522 580 FT24816 Oscope

The microcontroller supports up to 4 multiplexed channels so only a change in software is required.
I have made some other slower simpler graphers for things like temperature etc.



here is another showing motor voltage vs time per half rotation (0 is up the top)
1178464896 580 FT24816 2chan


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Eric
Mon May 07 2007, 04:50PM
Eric Registered Member #69 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 07:42AM
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Thanks for the ideas guys. The dataq and et-arm units look nice, I wish they had better than 10bit a/d though.
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