How to measure pulse height by DAQ card

I want to record pulse signals (fast pulse) and measure their amplitude (height) using DAQ card

:-) I heard that problem before. Is it possible that we disscused this subject some time earlier?
Well, but to your problem. How many counts do you get per second in average? I work/worked at a similar problem to analyse the counts from a 2D-detector. I tried the VI mentioned above but it was never able to analyse 1000 counts per second as a order of magnitude.
Which shape has your pulses? Are they NIM or square shaped? How stable is your underground and of which order of magnitude is it? How fast is your DAQ board? Because according to the Nyquist theorem you will need a sampling rate of approx. 1MS/s to resolve them properly!
Stephan

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