I need a portable daq that can measure up to 15 thermocouples that is usb

Hello, a friend of mine that has no experience with labview is asking me about what daq can he buy in order to have a portable thermocouple measuring system.  It has to be usb so he can take it along with him and his laptop and that he can connect up to 15 thermocouples.  I saw some usb based systems that are specificly for thermocuple measurement but only have 4 inputs.  Is there any usb daq that I could use for this application and do I have to additionaly cancel any unwanted noise via programming???
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Hi, Indeed there's only a usb up to 4 channels to manage termocouples, this is the NI USB-9211A. But I can suggest you something else:
1. You can buy a SCXI chassis and the Control Module USB NI-SCXI-1600. And using a module SCXI-1102 you can handle up to 32 thermocouples. These are the links:
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/14235
http://www.ni.com/pdf/products/us/4scxisc278_ETC_196.pdf
2. Another PAC you can use is CompactDAQ along 4 modules NI 9211 (4 thermocouples each one)
http://www.ni.com/dataacquisition/compactdaq/
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/14165
3. And one more solution, probably the cheapest. You can buy any USB M-Series DAQ card for example, NI USB-6251 with the SCB-68 terminal block. You can connect your 15 thermocouples to the analog inputs and use the cold-junction compensation built in the terminal block.
I hope you'll find useful this information.
Best regards.
Arturo Gómez | Applications Engineering
Certified LabVIEW Associated Developer
National Instruments Latin America
01-800-010-0793
ni.com/support

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