Measurement Computing CIO-DAS16/M1 - Manual (Page 7)

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2.4 INSTALLING THE CIO-DAS16/M1 IN THE COMPUTER
1. Turn the power off.
2. Remove the cover of your computer. Please be careful not to dislodge any of the cables installed on the
boards in your computer as you slide the cover off.
3. Locate an empty expansion slot in your computer. If you plan to use the 24 bits of digital or three
counters accessible through the rear connector, you should install the board in a slot with an available
adjacent slot for the BP40-37 connector-cable-backplate assembly.
4. Push the board firmly down into the expansion bus connector. If it is not seated fully it may fail to
work and could short circuit the PC bus power onto a PC bus signal. This could damage the motherboard
in your PC or the board.
2.5 PROGRAMMABLE RANGE AND GAIN SETTING
The analog input range is fully programmable. There are no switches to set.
The board has a channel/gain queue, that is programmed to align a channel and gain in a programmed
channel scan sequence. Channel/Gain queue loading is handled by the Universal Library programming
language library and by application programs which support the CIO-DAS16/M1.
Setting the channel gain queue is required prior to making any measurements with the CIO-DAS16/M1 so
the concept of a default range value is meaningless.