Programmatically Varying the Load Resistance of PXIe 4144

Updated Nov 24, 2022

Reported In

Hardware

  • PXIe-4144

Driver

  • NI-DCPower

Issue Details

I am using the sense leads of PXIe 4144 for measuring the voltage input to my device. Will I be able to vary the output resistance of the instrument during this measurement?

Solution

The load resistance of the PXIe 4144 cannot be set by the user. It is automatically set by the instrument based on the current and voltage limits which the user provides as an input to the niDCPower APIs. 

Additional Information

The DC Power APIs used to configure the Voltages are: