Alternative low cost suppliers for LV compatible I/O cards

I'm looking for a low cost LV compatible card to use in my lab on Windows
PC's by students, because the original NI cards are not so cheap. Number of
I/O, resolution and speed is not so important, but it must work properly.I
don't want to use the "German" solution with a SoundBoard, because its quite
limited. It must have at least 4 I/O and 8 or 12 bit resolution. Has anayone
any experimence with other suppliers than National Instruments in Europe?
Thanks!

Thanks for the info, i will certainly investigate it next week!
Marc
"kevin" schreef in bericht
news:Y6Y5a.9680$[email protected]..
> In article <3e57dd24$0$83869$[email protected]>, "Marc Thijs"
> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a low cost LV compatible card to use in my lab on
> > Windows PC's by students, because the original NI cards are not so
> > cheap. Number of I/O, resolution and speed is not so important, but it
> > must work properly.I don't want to use the "German" solution with a
> > SoundBoard, because its quite limited. It must have at least 4 I/O and 8
> > or 12 bit resolution. Has anayone any experimence with other suppliers
> > than National Instruments in Europe? Thanks!
>
> Check o
ut my response to this post:
>
http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=5
06500000008000000505B0000&UCATEGORY_0=_49_%24_6_&UCATEGORY_S=0&USEARCHCONTEX
T_QUESTION_0=Is+it+possible+to+acquire+an+analog+input+without+a+DAQ+board&U
SEARCHCONTEXT_QUESTION_S=0
>
> Just go to MeasurementComputing.com. I've used these boards for several
> years now and haven't had many problems. I would strongly suggest the
> CIO-DAS08/JR for $179(US):
>
http://www.measurementcomputing.com/cbicatalog/cbiproduct.asp?dept%5Fid=117&
pf%5Fid=183&mscssid=N1UUA2JCKE0P9PWU130KXM64XNRX1SS4
>
> I'm sure they'll provide you an educator discount. Oh yeah, these guys
> aren't in Europe so perhaps the added S/H won't make them so cheap...
>
> Good luck,
> -Kevin

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On 18 Jul 2003 14:59:07 -0700, [email protected] (William
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>Can someone recommend the best, low cost way to monitor temp at 16
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>research application. But we are a startup and I need to stretch my
>capital budget as much as possible. Here are the details:
>
>1. type k theromocouople
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>
>I used National Instruments Field Point modules about 2 yrs ago for
>this since they were the cheapest approach I found for the signal
>condtioning since a 8 channels of type K tc inputs, the TC120 module,
>cost $350.
>
>Is there a better approach I should look at? I do not have to
work
>with LV or NI hw if there is a better approach.
>
>Thanks in advance for your advice,
>
>Doug Danielson
>
>[email protected]
>Atlanta, GA
>
>
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