Owner's manual

Chapter 2: Installation and Configuration

Hardware diagnostic procedure

Connect PowerDAQ DIO board to the screw terminal using the proper

cable (PD-DIO-CBL-100 for the PD2-DIO boards and PD-DIO-CBL-96

for all other models).

First thing you can measure is a presence of 5V power on the screw

terminal, which has 200mA maximum load capability (up to 1A option

is available, please contact factory for the details).

Also, you can attach the scope or logic analyzer to the certain I/Os, run

DIOTest application and check the output. The output of every enabled

channel should be seen as a positive pulse.

Subsystem- and application- specific examples

There are a numerous examples supplied with PowerDAQ SDK that

support PowerDAQ DIO boards. Please refer to readme file of the

latest installation and comments at the beginning of the main file of

each example you had installed for the details. Also, there is a

PowerDAQ Programming Manual available. That manual provides a

lot of detailed information about low level (C/C++) programming of

the PowerDAQ DIO boards and a numerous topics with general

information about PowerDAQ boards programming under the different

operating systems.

All PowerDAQ manuals are supplied in electronic Adobe Acrobat PDF

format. If you require the PDF reader, this can be downloaded from

the Internet at no cost from www.adobe.com

Following C/C++ examples are supplied with revision 3.x of PowerDAQ

SDK:

pddio_in.c - digital I/O single read example

pddio_ou.c - digital I/O single write example

pddi_buf.c - digital input stream (-ST boards only)

pdssi_ib.c - ESSI0 RX0 input stream

pddo_buf.c - digital output stream (-ST boards only)

pdssi_ob.c - ESSI0 TX0 output stream

pdct_evt.c - counter/timer events

pdct_buf.c - counter/timer (TMR0/TMR2) input stream (-CT only)