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Measuring pulse width 3.3khz signal

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So I'm trying to measure the inductance of a component by pairing it with a capacitor and exciting it for 100ns with 5v. This gives me a 3.3khz decaying sine wave that lasts roughly half a millisecond before it gets too weak to reliably measure. That part works fine.

 

What I can't seem to get to work is getting that signal into my NI 6320 counters to work with the high frequency w/ two counters example. Per the example vi, I followed the search for "Connecting Counter Signals" instructions, clicked the myDAQ Signal Connections for Counters help link, and added the DAQmx Channel block as suggested to try to connect the signal to the counters via pin 1 (/Dev1/PFI14) as shown in the attached vi.

 

I've tried a handful of different things but I must be missing something dead simple for why this isn't working. The example and help sheets make it sound as easy as tell the counter which pin to listen on and it'll work. I've connected a signal generator to pin 1 emitting a 3.3khz 5v P-P square wave for now to eliminate any uncertainties with the actual parts, but still no luck.

 

There's a fair number of posts from several years ago about similar issues but the accepted answers are either not the problem I'm having or are "check this link" and the link is broken.


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