DAQLog Quick Start
Install the software and hardware
Complete the following steps to install DAQLog and your LGR-5320
Series device.
1. Install DAQLog from the DAQLog CD.
2. Insert the blank SD card that came with your DAQLog device into
the SD card slot on the device.
3. Connect the external power supply to the power connector on thedevice, and connect the device to a USB port.
4. Connect channel 0 of the device to an analog signal source so thedevice acquires data in single-ended mode.
5. Remove any other SD, SDHC, or flash drives that are installed inyour computer.

Run DAQLog and add the SD card
Complete the following steps to launch DAQLog and add the SD card.
1. Launch DAQLog.
2. Click Add SD card toolbar button.

3. Click Continue in the first SD Drive Selection dialog box.
4. Click OK in the next SD Drive Selection dialog box.

The SD card displays in the SD Drives pane.

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Configure a settings fileComplete the following steps to create a settings file on the SD card that
configures a LGR-5320 Series device to acquire analog data.
Make sure the SD card is selected in the SD Drives pane
1. Click New Settings File toolbar button
Logging Session dialog box.

to open the Configuring

2. In the Settings Target list, select the device to configure.
3. Enter AI0 example in the Name field, and click Next to open theConfiguring Analog Inputs dialog box.
4. Configure channel 0 as shown below, and clear all other Log

checkboxes for the remaining analog channels.

5. Click Next on the next two dialog boxes to accept the default settingsfor counter and digital inputs and to open the Configuring
Acquisition Startup, Timing, and Duration dialog box (counterand digital data is not logged in this example).
6. In the Post-Trigger row, enter 500 in the Scan Duration textbox
and 1,000.0 in the Scan Rate textbox, and then click Next to open
the Configuring Event Recording dialog box.
7. Clear all checkboxes in this dialog box and click Finish.

The settings file is saved to the SD card and displays in the Available
Items pane.

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Load settings and log data
Complete the following steps to log data with a LGR-5320 Series device
using a 10 Hz, ±5 V sine wave as a signal source:
1. Disconnect the USB cable from the device.
2. Press LOAD on the device to load the settings file to the device
3. Press START on the device to begin logging data.
4. When the LOG LED turns off, the device has finished logging data.

Convert a data fileComplete the following steps to convert the data file to a commaseparated value (.csv) file:
1. Connect the device to a USB port.
2. Select the SD card on the SD Drives pane, and then click Refresh.
Location toolbar button
3. Click on the folder in the Available Items pane, selectlog0000.dat, and then click the Convert Data File toolbar button

to convert the data file to a .csv file.

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View a data fileComplete the following steps to view the .csv file in a spreadsheet:
1. Click the Data folder in the Data File Folders pane, browse thefolder in the Available Items pane, and select log0000.csv.
2. Click the Locate File on Drive toolbar button.

3. Open log0000.csv in your default spreadsheet application.

A .csv file opened in Microsoft® Excel® and plotted on a scatter chartis shown below.

Measurement Computing Corporation
10 Commerce Way
Norton, Massachusetts 02766(508) 946-5100
info@mccdaq.com
www.mccdaq.com*325588C-01*
325588C-01
QS DAQLog.docx

Oct15
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