Hummm that is interesting. Are they available?
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Subject: [AR] Re: Test Stand DAQ
From: Nathan Bergey <nathan.bergey@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, December 16, 2015 12:42 pm
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yeah, LabJack/Labview is standard. If you just want to get started
without any fuss, do this.
For some reason (...well, for the specific reason that LabJacks are
god awful to actually use) we built our own last year. It's still a
work in progress, but Andrew really wanted something that could be
reusable for lots of people and better than labview.
And I made them make a web page for it:
http://marionette-daq.github.io/
-Nathan
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Lloyd Droppers <ldroppers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yep, LabView coupled with National Instruments hardware is the defacto
standard, at least in the NewSpace section of rocket testing. The main
problem is the cost, which can be as low as ~$1000 for the extreme low end
up to ~$5k by the time you were happy with the system for running a rocket
test stand. If you go that route the cDAQ chassis and module system if a
reasonable starting point
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/208990
I would highly recommend a microcontroller system though, especially if your
plan is to eventually fly the rocket, as you won't be flying a NI board :)
There are a lot of options, Arduino is probably the best known and it is a
good bet for a start. I documented a very simple arduino leonardo base DAQ
that might help you get started at
http://projectearendel.com/home/documentation/
Sensor arrays are not standard.
Lloyd
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Pierce Nichols <piercenichols@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The most common software in the world for this sort of thing is probably
LabView. LabView is commercial software and its relentlessly visual
paradigm
takes some getting used to for those more used to conventional programming
languages. That said, it's a very powerful tool and it encapsulates a lot
of
tricky stuff.
As for common hardware and sensors... no.
-p
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Monroe L. King Jr.
<monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a standard DAQ and sensor array used by most of you guy's on
the list?
Is there a standard software used?
The reason I am asking is because I want to use what most of the guy's
use and understand. Sure I can come up with something but I would prefer
something the most people could work with.