TracerDAQ® and TracerDAQ® Pro

Sorry, TracerDAQ PRO is only compatible with Measurement Computing hardware.

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TracerDAQ PRO is licensed for one PC installation at a time. If you wish to install TracerDAQ pro on multiple PCs at the same time, you must purchase one license per PC.

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Yes, TracerDAQ Pro, allows you to run multiple instances of each application at a time, as long as the applications use different DAQ hardware resources.

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Yes. Beginning in late 2015, with version 2.3.3, TracerDAQ PRO supported Win10.

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The UL API does not have a way to read .SCH files from TracerDAQ. MCC can provide a document on the SCH file format upon request.

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No, there is not a way to rename those right-side markers. But, with PRO, if you select View Measurements, then a separate measurements table pops up, which displays the most recent value for each channel … and it also displays the unique channel names that you assigned under Edit Channel Settings.

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TracerDAQ PRO cannot be configured to “AutoStart” It is a manual process. You would have to use our DASYLab Graphical Programming language and enable the AutoStart feature. Please call Sales Engineering for details.

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The newer DAQami makes configuration easy by automatically discovering the DAQ hardware. The older TracerDAQ requires you to have previously manually run the InstaCal utility to discover the DAQ hardware.

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Yes, TracerDAQ PRO is capable of supporting up to 48 inputs from one or multiple DAQ devices and the number of differential inputs that the USB-2416 and the AI-EXP32 supports comes to 32. So you will actually have some channels to spare.

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TracerDAQ PRO has a hard limit of 1 million samples per channel. Any restart must be manually initiated. If you reduce your sample rate to 5 Hz, you can sample for 53 hours. Otherwise, please consider purchasing DASYLab lite. A free 28 day evaluation version may be downloaded from www.mccdaq.com/dasylab

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Error 300 is not specific to TracerDAQ, but instead is bubbling up from the underlying DAQ (UL) driver. Error 300 is a catch-all for a variety of low-level bus errors. So if the DAQ device is USB based, then the problem is USB bus related. If using a USB 3.0 port, try a USB 2.0 port, and/or update the USB drivers (for your USB ports) as recommended by your PC vendor. If you are using a USB hub or USB cable extender in between the DAQ the PC, try without it. While less likely, if there are electro-magnetic or inductive events nearby, try moving those away.

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TracerDAQ PRO does not have the capability of comparing a reference waveform to your acquired waveform. You could convert your TracerDAQ PRO data file into a CSV file and then use Excel to perform the comparison. Another option would be to use our DASYLab BASIC Graphical programming language. The BASIC version supports a “Reference Curve” module which allows you to compare your incoming data to a specified reference curve that you would create. A 28 Day Evaluation version of DASYLab is available for free at the following link: http://mccdaq.com/products/dasylab_basic.htm

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TracerDAQ PRO is not copy protected, but it is licensed for installation on one PC at a time. It sounds like you are planning to uninstall it from one PC, and therefore you can legally install it onto another PC. If you no longer have your TracerDAQ PRO installation exe file (MCC sells PRO as download-only, not on a physical CD), then you should locate your original purchase email (which includes a link, login, and password), and download the latest version of PRO.

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The X-axis can only display elapsed time, which is the time from the start of the sampling. It cannot display time-of-day. However, the log file’s timestamps are time-of-day.

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Hello - We have a comparison chart posted at the below link that shows the differences between TracerDAQ and TracerDAQ Pro. Please let us know if you have any additional questions. Comparison Chart: http://www.mccdaq.com/td-compare.aspx

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Hello fjd0001 - Yes, TracerDAQ PRO supports linear scaling. For each strip chart channel, you can enter a multiplier and offset.

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Hello Wizz - First, for the InstaCal error you report when adding new hardware without Administrative privileges, we have resolved that issue in newer InstaCal versions, as discussed in the following FAQ: http://kb.mccdaq.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50250.aspx For your TracerDAQ question, in Win7, you should be able choose either “Switch User” or Lock this computer” without affecting TracerDAQ’s operation, but you cannot “Log off”. Logging off is not possible, since Windows closes all programs, including TracerDAQ.

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Unfortunately, TracerDAQ PRO does not support mathematical functions with the exception of linear scaling in the form of (m(x) + b. However, we do have a product called DASYLab that would in fact allow for mathematical calculations to be performed on your input signals then displayed on a strip chart. More information along with a FREE 28-day Evaluation version of DASYLab can be found here: http://www.mccdaq.com/products/dasylab_lite.htm

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Yes, the free version can support a maximum total of 8 channels. The PRO version supports 48 channels. In either version, to increase above the default 4 channels: Open the DAQ Hardware Settings window, right click on any of the 4 channels already in the list, and select Number of Channels.

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Before launching TracerDAQ, you must first run InstaCal - to have the hardware recognized (and possibly also configure the hardware). Then close InstaCal and re-launch TracerDAQ.

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Hello, Yes - the PMD-1208LS (now the USB-1208LS) is compatible with TracerDAQ.

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The marker values do start at zero. The markers values are updated each time you move (with the mouse) one or the other marker. i.e. live data scrolling across the screen, in and of itself, does not update the marker values.

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Hello - TracerDAQ PRO does not offer any averaging capability. You should consider DASYLab Lite, as it can perform RMS (Quadratic Mean) in its Averaging module. A free 28-Day Evaluation version of DASYLab may be downloaded from: http://www.mccdaq.com/DASYLab-Resources.aspx

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This error message is relatively new, but as of yet has not been very common. We have not been able to duplicate it ourselves, and do not yet know a solution, but it is possible that the following FAQ will help: http://kb.mccdaq.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50559.aspx

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TracerDAQ does not support the use of an arbitrary file for outputting analog data. However, TracerDAQ PRO does. The file must be in .CSV or .TXT format and you can easily convert your TracerDAQ PRO strip chart data file to either format within the application. One caveat is that TracerDAQ PRO, along with the data includes information regarding the experiment in a header that is not compatible with the function generator and needs to be edited out. You will have to open the .CSV or .TXT file and edit this out prior to using it with the function generator. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.

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Hello JoseC - The standard version of TracerDAQ can sample up to 32,000 samples per channel. The PRO version, sold separately, is the one that can sample up to 1,000,000 samples per channel. More information on TracerDAQ Pro may be found at: http://www.mccdaq.com/daq-software/tracerdaq-pro.aspx A comparison chart showing the differences between the Standard and Pro versions may be viewed at: http://www.mccdaq.com/td-compare.aspx

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Hi Ross - This quirk was fixed recently in TracerDAQ 2.3.0.0. In earlier versions, if you shut down your PC when TracerDAQ was minimized, TracerDAQ comes up the next time as minimized. You should be able to enlarge it by right clicking on it in the task bar. If you are using Windows7, you may first need to left click to pick which of the two TracerDAQ windows on the task bar you wish to reference, and then right click, and select “Maximize”.

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