Recording Raw Data Files

All hardware subsystems that acquire data from a hardware device have the ability to write that acquired data out to a raw data file.  There is a single command that is needed to enable this functionality.  Each hardware sub system default setting consists of not writing a raw data file.  In order to enable this functionality, the -SetRawDataFile command must be used.  This command will set the filename of the raw data file to be used.  The raw data filename may also be set from the hardware sub system properties dialog.  Once that filename is set, whenever recording is turned on, the raw acquisition data will be written to the specified file.  One thing to be aware of is that because this is a raw data file that is saving data from every AD channel in the system, for larger channel counts and higher sampling frequencies, this file has the ability to become very large in size.  It is important to monitor the amount of free disk space that the PC has so that the disk does not become completely full.