How To Monitor the Temperature of My TestScale Backplane

Updated Oct 4, 2023

Environment

Hardware

  • TestScale Backplane

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It is very important to appropriately dissipate the heat generated during TestScale system operation. You must plan for the thermal conditions of your application throughout design, development, and validation.

The TestScale backplane includes eight onboard temperature sensors to validate thermal solution by monitoring thermal performance during validation and deployment. The sensors validate onboard temperatures that can be used to determine the approximate internal operating temperature. This approach is called digital validation.

Complete the following steps to read the onboard sensor temperature using a LabVIEW VI.
 
  1. Launch LabVIEW.
  2. Start the session with Initialize Session and set the target to localhost.
  3. Call the Create Filter to create a filter to search the device.
  4. Use the Property Node to configure the filter with the below parameters:
     
    Expert Info:Expert Namedaqmx
    Devices & Chassis:Connects To Bus TypeUSB
    Expert Info:User Alias<TestScale Device Name>
  5. Call the Find Hardware and Index Array to identify the device.
  6. Use the Property Node to read the onboard temperature information.
     
    Alias<TestScale Device Name>
    TempCount<Number of Temperature Sensors Available>
    TempNames<Temperature Sensor Name>
    TempReadings<Temperature Readings>
  7. Click Close to end the session.
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The temperature value for each sensor will be displayed.
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Attachments

TestScale Backplane Temperature Sensors LabVIEW 2019.vi

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