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Chinese caliper readout

I'd like to read the signal from a chinese digital caliper into labview and display the distance.  I found this site which has a lot of info about these scales and how they work.  http://www.shumatech.com/support/chinese_scales.htm

Can I use a NI USB-6008 to do this?

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Very doubtful. The data clock rate is too fast for the 6008 since it does not have hardware timed digital I/O. The analog inputs cannot sample fast enough to accurately sample the data stream. Even if they could, decoding the data would be a formidable challenge.

 

-AK2DM

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