I want to make a rally car odometer using a VM167 to collect pulses (150Hz max) from a wheel sensor and reading the count value into Excel via a USB port. Is this the best way to do this? Further calculations using the count value will then be done to convert the count value to kilometers and then to an ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival). Comparison of ETA with clock time will display seconds early or late. This is the basic calculation of regularity rallying or TSD rallying, as it is known in USA.
If anyone has done this or something similar, I am very interested to hear of it!
Wow!!! What a positive experience I have had with Velleman! At the time I posted this message, I sent an email asking about an agent in South Africa. Since then, the local agent contacted me, I have bought a VM167, made up a prototype, installed drivers etc on my PC. I hooked it up to a signal generator and the count value is displayed in the Demo. Everything works perfectly, first time, no hassle - well done Velleman!
Now all I need is to figure out how to write a program to import the counter value into a cell in Excel - can someone pleeease help?
[quote=“WallyL”]Wow!!! What a positive experience I have had with Velleman! At the time I posted this message, I sent an email asking about an agent in South Africa. Since then, the local agent contacted me, I have bought a VM167, made up a prototype, installed drivers etc on my PC. I hooked it up to a signal generator and the count value is displayed in the Demo. Everything works perfectly, first time, no hassle - well done Velleman!
Now all I need is to figure out how to write a program to import the counter value into a cell in Excel - can someone pleeease help?[/quote]
Try to write a program that exports data into a *.csv, Excel should be able to read that in directly.
