I am still learning Labview, thus the question. I have a process that I need to monitor. The process has numerous outputs from a PLC. Most are digital signals to control a valve. Some are signals to represent binary to decimal. My main questions is about digital data collection and using the digital on/off signals.
As I have experimented with the digital data collection it seems that the data layout is built more for monitoring data communications between chips - like watching busses on a motherboard. Example:
I need to detect changes in a single column of data in the above example.
Am I better off collecting the data as "one channel for each line" or "one channel for all lines"? Am I better off converting the digital data to boolean? What is the recommended way or design pattern for collecting digital data and using that digital data for on/off control signals?