How to connect the cables and the cards.


The  two PCI-9812 cards are plugged in a free PCI slot. The card order is from top to bottom PCI slot starting with 0, 1, 2, ...
If you have an additional card, like PCI-7200 , than the device number is 0 for this card. If you have a second card from the same type, you have to start counting from top to bottom PCI slot.

The cables of the electronic from the driftmonitor must be attached in following order:

Channel 0: Triggersignal from top and bottom counter
Channel 1: Delayed signal from bottom counter (about 600 ns delay)
Channel 2: Delayed signal from top counter (about 600 ns delay)
Channel 3: Undelayed signal from pick up
Channel 4: Unconnected (digital in-/output)

Be careful if you start a labview-program which waits for a trigger signal on a certain channel(using the PCI 9812 card).

"YOU CAN NOT STOP  OR ABORT THE  PROGRAM BY SOFTWARE  IF  THERE IS NO TRIGGER SIGNAL !!! "

If the driver of the card is waiting for a trigger signal to acquire data, there is no possibility to give a stop input by software to the driver to break execution. It is also not possible to kill Labview in the taskmanager of Windows NT.
The only possibility is to give an external trigger, e.g. by a function generator, pocket pulser, switching the electronic off and on or dis- and reconnecting the triggerchannel.
Please, try to avoid this situation.
 

Back view of the PC with the installed PCI9812 cards:


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



This Page was updated by Tobias Titz.
Last modified: Fri June 22 16:05:19 CET 2001