Accelerometer Vernier examples

Hi,
Im working on my final project for labview. I am planning in creating an Earthquake Alarm System for my area and I would like to use the 3-axis accelerometer. The equation I will be using is the Richter Scale formula that calles for an amplitud. I need to see if the accelerometer would serve the pursose of detecting p and s waves that I will simulate using an oscillator.
I have not been able to find examples of the accelerometer use on labview...any ideas where could i look?
Lara
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If you a talking about this accelerometer you need some sort of interface according to the manual.
Collecting Data with the 3-Axis Accelerometer
This sensor can be used with the following interfaces to collect data:
Vernier LabQuest® as a standalone device or with a computer
Vernier LabQuest® Mini with a computer
Vernier LabPro® with a computer, TI graphing calculator, or Palm® handheld
Vernier SensorDAQTM
CBL 2TM
If you choose or have the SensorDAQ interface then:
Data-Collection Software
This sensor can be used with an interface and the following data-collection software.
LabVIEW National Instruments LabVIEW™software is a graphical
programming language sold by National Instruments. It is used with
SensorDAQ and can be used with a number of other Vernier interfaces. See
www.vernier.com/labview for more information.
The LabVIEW drivers are located here.
Looks like they probably have some examples as well.
Using LabVIEW 2010SP1 and TestStand 4.5

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Very large values from accelerometer

Hello,
I did a small impact test in the lab, and recorded the acceleration. But I got very large peak numbers, like 300g, which is unreasonable. My vi has been checked by many people, seems like no problem. Does anyone have the idea why I got such big numbers?
Thanks.
Yuan

It would be helpful if you describe your hardware, DAQ , (signal-conditioner with setting) , sensor
and please post a link to the spec-sheet of the sensor and (if you have) the individual sensitivity (cal) value(s) of your sensor. (in metric if possible )
Now read the input voltage at a high sample rate (you can use one of the example vi's ) . If you have a pulse in the diagram hit edit-make current values default, save as a new vi and post that vi.
Greetings from Germany
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Is there an FFT program (that logs data) I can use for accelerometer testing

Application is ... sensing vibrations from a downhole (drilling rig) air hammer tool. Need to log the data and distinguish the frequency fo the tool vibration from the drilling string vibration. Hammer tool noise is about 28 Hz.

Thank you for the question. There is an excellent LabVIEW tool that will distinguish vibration frequencies from one another. This is the Order Analysis toolset. It uses a once per rev (or multiple per rev pulse) as a base or fundamental frequency and is able to separate out the vibration signatures at harmonics and sub-harmonics. Standard LabVIEW or LabVIEW with the Datalogging and Supervisory Control Toolset both work well with the LabVIEW Order Analysis tools installed and working. I would be happy to provide example code, or discuss the application in more detail with you.
Sincerely,
Preston Johnson
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Industrial Applications (Machine Vibrations)
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[email protected]
Preston Johnson
Principal Sales Engineer
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Vibration Analyst III - www.vibinst.org, www.mobiusinstitute.com
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Read from both load cell and accelerometer

Hi,
I'm trying to collect data from both load cell (which doesn't need excitation) and accelerometer (which needs 4 mA excitation). As you can see below, I wrote a simple program to collect data from both devices. However, my program provides 4 mA of excitation to all channels, one of which shouldn't receive any current. How can I selectively provide the excitation to specific channels?
Any suggestions?
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Good morning jeongho20000,
Both aeastat and falkpl have provided excellent solutions for this. I also wanted to mention a good KnowledgeBase article found at ni.com by searching for "daqmx channel same task" in the internal search bar. This helps to outline both solutions. After searching, you can then select multiple entries, but the best that I found was the 3rd choice, titled: Using Different Types of DAQmx Global Channels in the Same Task.
You can download from the article the attached example VI titled Multiple Channels Created.vi, and modify the block diagram to fit your needs. Wiring the Task Out to the Task In of two DAQmxCreateChannel VIs is the programmatic equivalent of adding multiple Global Virtual Channels created in Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX) to a common Task in MAX. Either method works, it is only a user preference. Feel free to reply if you need further clarification/explanation.
Best,
Message Edited by cyclone2k9 on 04-06-2010 11:08 AM
Message Edited by cyclone2k9 on 04-06-2010 11:09 AM
Adam
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National Intruments

Need Guidance On Data Acquisition Using Bluetooth of an Accelerometer

Hello everyone. I am completely new to LabVIEW and I have a few questions to ask.
So here is what I am trying to do. I have accelerometers connected to a microcontroller board (SK40C from Cytron, details are here) using PIC16F877A. Then, the output of the microcontroller is connected to a bluetooth module transmitter (SKKCA-21 from Cytron also, details are here). And from here, the data are transmitted to a laptop for LabVIEW data acquisition. My aim is convert the voltage into acceleration, display graphs and possibly storage of data.
I have searched through the forum and I got a little bit confuse of where I should start. These are a few question I want to ask:
1) What are the additional software/hardware that I need ? Because I read about this VISA and DAQ thingy which I'm don't quite understand about it.
2) Can anyone provide a step by step guide on what I should start with ? I am very very new to LabVIEW and time is abit of a constrain to me.
Thanks in advance for the help. Hope to hear some replies soon

The DAQ "thingy" is for use when using NI data acquisition boards. VISA is used to communicate with instruments/devices over a serial port, TCP/IP, GPIB, and sometimes USB.
Based on a brief look at the documentation, it appears that the transmitter connects to a computer via a USB cable. The USB driver creates a virtual COM port, so the computer should see a serial port. You can then communicate with the transmitter using VISA and treat the trasmitter as a serial port device.
You should first try talking to it using another terminal program. On Windows HyperTerminal is your best bet. This is to make sure you've installed all the required software and you can talk to it before getting into LabVIEW. Once you've been able to talk to it with (for example) HyperTerminal, then open up the serial port examples and try sending the same commands. You will need to determine from the documentation for the transmitter whether you need to append a special character, such as a carriage return or linefeed (or both) when sending commands, and whether the device ends its messages with a special character (such as a carriage return or linefeed). You should also read over the numerous articles in this page: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4370

My project writes accelerometer data to usb drive but shared variables do not communicate with modbus

Hi there,
I have got a program that reads input from 3 off 9234 modules on a cRIO, the idea of the program is to read this data and save it in a bin file to a connected usb hard drive, the program also uses shared variables to connect the max signals from the 9234 then send thm to a modbus slave, my problem is that althought I am now getting the correct data on the usb drive I am not getting anything down the modbus link, I attach the program for you to see, all the shared variables are on the rt low speed loop, any help would be most grateful.
Many thanks
Jason
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Hi Jasonh,
Thanks for posting your code! Due to the lack of comments on the code, would it be possible to direct me to where it sends the code to the modbus slave please?
This tutorial on How to turn a RT Target into a Modbus Slave using IO Servers may also be of some help.
Kind regards,
Tori
Student

Using USB-6008 on LIS331 Accelerometer

Hi, I am looking to monitor my project with a LIS331 using the USB-6008 dac. Would this dac unit be acceptable with this accelerometer?

swong46,
I would recommend using a USB 63xx series DAQ device. You might also be interested in the USB 8452, which is a dedicated I2C and SPI device.
I can also put you in touch with some of our sales engineers, who would be the most knowledable about your options. Shoot me a PM if you're interested, and I can give you a number to call.
Kyle T.
Applications Engineering
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How to read the sensorvalue of the Hitech Gyroscope and Accelerometer in LabVIEW 8.2

hello everyone,
I am trying to read the value of Gyroscope and Accelerometer (3 Axis respectively and simutaneously) in LabVIEW 8.2, but I didn't find any suitable standard VI . Should I create a new VI by myself ( in this case I need LabVIEW 7.1, don't I ?) or can I convert the standard NXT-G block to LabVIEW VI ?
I am looking forward to any reply. thanks
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now I describe my problem with more detail. the VI ReadAccel showed me only "0" in LV8.2 , that means it dosn't work.
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Can I test for open or shorted accelerometers using an NI9234 module?

I'm using multiple NI9234 modules to acquire data from accelerometers. Is there anyway in LabVIEW to test the health of the accelerometers? I'm looking for either open or shorted accelerometers.
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Hi NI_1424,
From LabVIEW, we just read the voltages that are on the NI 9234. If you are expecting a voltage from an accelerometer but it is reading 0 V, it could be shorted or open. So, the short answer is "no". But you can deduce faulty accelerometers if you understand your setup and are seeing unexpected values.
Jeff Munn
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Accelerometers

hi,
I am new to DAQ and in particular to accelerometers.
Any help with regards to how to chose particular models for a 0- 300g, 10-100mV/g sensitivity, 0(atleast 3hz or below )-10Khz, application involving vibrabtion testing of tendons would be greatly appreciated. some possible vendors include endevco (#7703-50) , PCB (#352c18 ,#353b03). Any information with regard to experiences with such vendors would be of great help.
please email to [email protected]
thanks
ananth

Ananth,
Beside the famous AD, you can also try out a newer kid on the block, a company called MEMSIC.
As I believe it, instead of mechanical moving silicon parts (using changing impedances), their devices use temperature-sensing techniques to detect the movement of a trapped gas. It has no moving parts, so this looks very robust to me.
Due to the temperature-principle, the bandwith is somewhat limited to 40 Hz.
On their website you can even ask for a sample, which is always handy for evaluation purposes.
Note: I have no commercial link with the company but was pleased by their friendly sampling-policy, rare these days if you are a small company.
Patrick de Boevere

Simultaneous acquisition of accelerometer and an encoder measurements of a rotating machinery.

I want to do a simultaneous acquisition of accelerometer and an encoder measurements of a rotating machinery.
So which National Instruments data acquisition product must be chose to do this capture.
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1st: check the voltage ranges of your encoders and accelerometers
2nd: do your accelerometers need IEPE power?
Ideas: (for accelerometers needing power and encoders with > +/-10V range)
NI USB 4432
NI USB 9232
NI CompactDAQ with 9232
other options in C series include 9234, 9229, 9215, etc.
In PXI, there is the 449x series of PXI express cards.
Do you have analysis and visualization requirements?
Take a look at these manuals:
http://digital.ni.com/manuals.nsf/websearch/5D343672A7367E6286257B9D00527B30
http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/372416C-01/
Regards,
Preston Johnson
Principal Sales Engineer
Condition Monitoring Systems
Vibration Analyst III - www.vibinst.org, www.mobiusinstitute.com
National Instruments
[email protected]
www.ni.com/mcm
www.ni.com/soundandvibration
www.ni.com/biganalogdata
512-683-5444

Problem Lenovo p70-A Accelerometer

I bought lenovo P70-A yesterday and i instal game CarXdrift from play store, the orientation is bit off. how to recalibrate the Accelerometer sensor ?, i tried almost all callibration software in playstore but nothing work.
Thanks Before.
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i read this on one lenovo p70 forum, which the author solved his problem. below is the step (translated)
1. type * # * # 3646633 # * # * on dialpad and go to ENGINEER MODE menu
2. go to HARDWARE TESTING
3. scroll down until you find SENSOR menu
4. select SENSOR CALIBRATION
5. select Gsensor Calibration
6. place your handset on a flat surface and click Do Calibration
7. wait until "operation succeed" notification.
8. done.
hope this will help with the sensor problem

I need an accelerometer data anaylsis vi that will give displacement from transisent data.

Sample rate = 50 kS/s
no filter
event duration 20-40 msec
700 g's max
I want it to run inside of labview.
Any suggestion?

Curt,
I happened to be interested in this problem for some time to monitor
vibrations in rotating machinery with order track and a mix of eddy
probes, velocity sensors and..accelerometers. In order to compare
vibrations from eddy probes and those of seismic sensors, I had to
doubly integrate the acc responses--> your wish .
.. I guess you have only one channel and fairly fast card and not doing
it continuously in real-time but as one-shot transient analysis possibly
with pretriggering.
You have to doubly integrate the accelerometer signal with some AC
filtering and acquire the response above 100 KHz (2 X bandwidth of your
acc). That is easy to do: use integration vi from the library with an AC
filter (IIR takes much less time but FIR have a linear phase lag and do
n
ot distort the time signal but simply shifts it.
If you use 2 channels, beware that the integration vi is not reentrant,
but I guess it is no issue for you since you assume that the
acceleration is quasi zero before the shock transient. Of course you are
bound to miss the low-frequency contents of your acc response anfd thus
may miss some of the real displacement. That's physics and has nothing
to do either Labview or data processing.
If you are busy with Labview and S&V problems, contact me at
[email protected] after Tuesday.
Gérard
38curt wrote:
> Sample rate = 50 kS/s
> no filter
> event duration 20-40 msec
> 700 g's max
> I want it to run inside of labview.
> Any suggestion?

Interfacing TEDS accelerometer to microcontroller with 1wire interface.

Please suggest me how to interface TEDS accelerometer to signal conditioning hardware. I need 1 wire interface between TEDS accelerometer which is biased by -5V and microcontroller with 1.8V logic 1 wire interface.
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hi,
thank u for your reply.
this is our circuit(attachment). our teds works with -5V bias and microcontroller works at 1.8V and it has inbuilt 1-wire controller(in circuit i have send through attachment micro controller not shown) please suggest me how to design signal conditioning(voltage level translation with bidirectional control)
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ICP accelerometer

Hi everyone,
I have an ICP accelerometer who need a constant current from 2 to 20mA. I decided to built my own conditionner with a current source of 24V/1A, a diode and a capacitor.
I want to know what's could happen if I provide a current of 1A directly at the accelerometer, whithout decrease it to 4mA. Will it destroys the captor?
Some people told me that the current intensity has no importance because the captor will utilise only the current he needs...
What do you think about that?
Thanks in advance,
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The diode you mentioned should be a current limiting diode.
And YES I assume that the ICP sensor get damaged (or migth change it's parameters) if sourced with a current higher than the SPEC.
And NO the capacitor usually will not be destroyed ( assuming a appropriate voltage rating)
You can see the ICP sensor as a voltage (zehner) diode, whos voltage is about 10V +- <sensitivity>*a . So the (max rated) power consumption of the ICP P_icp=10V*20mA = 200mW
Now replace the 20mA with 1A and think of a 10W ligth bulb
So if you want to build your own conditioner, but mix up some basic stuff, it couldn't be for a proffessional use. (buy will be cheaper than building with your experience)
You can use the power supply, but need to add a current limiting circuit (current diode, or jFET with resistor). The bias cutting capacitor should have a 35V rating .....
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Why I'm so shure, that you already 'tested' with 1A and now hope that the capacitor has blown instead of the sensor?
Why I'm so shure, that you already 'tested' with 1A and now hope that the capacitor has blown instead of the sensor?
Greetings from Germany
Henrik
LV since v3.1
“ground” is a convenient fantasy
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