Reasons to use this DLL:
Reasons NOT to use this DLL:
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME WARNING:
If you use this DLL and have daylight savings time enabled on your system, when the system clock is adjusted for daylight savings time your control and acquisition loops will be affected:
In the spring, when clocks shift forward, DAQFactory will think it was hung for an hour. This will cause a Timing Lag error on all acqusition loops. Serial and Ethernet communications
may throw a timeout error even though comms are fine. Any script that is looking for timeouts, or watchdog scripts may trigger since it will appear as if nothing happened for an hour.
In the fall, when the clocks shift backwards, any loops that happen to be waiting (for example in a delay(), or even simple Channel Timing) will likely hang for one hour while the clock
comes back to future time. This means an hour of dead time. Worse, if a loop happens to not be in the delay() at the time of the time shift, it will run normally, so which loops
hang for an hour and which run properly is completely random.
We strongly recommend turning off daylight savings time if you wish to use this DLL and the Windows system clock.
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DAQFactory 20.1
Please note that any documents saved in 20.1 will not open in prior releases of DAQFactory.
NOTE: For those upgrading from prior releases (19.x and earlier), the upgrade to 20+ is a significant upgrade. First and foremost, DAQFactory Express is no longer available and not supported in this release. DAQFactory Starter is likewise being deprecated. Existing Starter licenses will still function, but new licenses are no longer available.
DAQFactory trials are limited to 25 days. The trials are fully functioning with only two exceptions: only the first image of each category in the library is available, and your documents will not work in the runtime version. The trial is DAQFactory-Pro which enables you to try all the features. If you have purchased a DAQFactory license, we will provide you with an unlock key to convert the trial into a fully licensed copy with the appropriate features enabled.
If you are upgrading to a new release of DAQFactory you should simply install this download over top of the existing installation. There is no need to uninstall first.
This contains all the DAQFactory files and device drivers available in a single download.