6.22.2009

SUCCESS

After 6 weeks of banging my head against the wall, I've managed to get
the TDC working. It wasn't obvious, and I had to manually write some
functions that weren't very pretty, but it works. What I think it was
is that the default configuration the CAEN TDC came with was set to
look at a range outside the TDC's capabilities, so it wouldn't take
data.

This does not, however, explain why it wouldn't acquire data until I
had loaded it into LabView. My best guess is that there was something
strange configured in the TDC itself that the standard code was
struggling with, but when LabView was loaded it reset everything to a
usable state.

Now I need to loop over all the channels and export the data to files.
Not as obvious as it seems, in fact, considering once again CAEN has
half-assed their code and defined functions which do not work.

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