What is WinDaq Add-ons?

WinDaq Add-ons add powerful features and functions to WinDaq software from DATAQ Instruments. 

With WinDaq add-ons, even the low-end products can employ many powerful functions found exclusively on expensive high-end packages, for example, SMS and email-enabled alarm, calculated trigger mode, derivative trigger mode, calculated channels,  spectrum display and closed-loop control. 

DATAQ Instruments recommends our WinDaq Add-ons to all WinDaq users

Supported Devices:  Any data acquisition device running WinDaq acquisition software

Operating Systems: 

Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP/NT/Server 2008/2003/2000/98/Me, both 32 and 64 bit system

Having trouble to configure WinDaq addons? Check this out

Latest Version of WinDaq Add-ons:

See WinDaq Add-ons Update Log

List of WinDaq Add-ons

Function	Add-ons
Excel Link (Support both 32 and 64-bit Excel)	Advanced Trigger Excel Link
Frequency Domain Study	Waterfall Spectrogram Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
Alarm and Closed-loop Control	Digital and Alarm Output with Email Link
Enhanced Displays	Instrumentation Gauge Magic Meter Oscilloscope Digital Plot Histogram
Add-On Management	WinDaq Add-on Manager WinDaq Add-on Batch Start
Special Recorder	Calculated Channel Recorder Advanced Analog Triggered Recorder
Experimental and Legacy addons for WinDaq	Email/SMS Alarm and Event Lab Assistant Advanced Audio and Text Commented Event   Serial Output Lab Note Taker with support for 3rd party instrument control
Experimental addons for WinDaq Waveform Browser (Playback)	Audio & Text Event Navigator for WWB FFT Viewer for WWB

To Use WinDaq Add-ons

WinDaq addons operate and record data at WinDaq's hardware scanning rate which can be set to the maximum device speed at any version of WinDaq, thus the recording speed limit imposed by WinDaq/Lite has no effect on WinDaq addons. For example, you can't use WinDaq/Lite to record to disk at sample rate of 1500s/s, but you can display the waveform at 1500s/s, so calculated channel recorder (WinDaq addon) can easily record to file at 1500s/s. A factor that may limit WinDaq addon's performance is the computing power of your computer.

1. Confirm WinDaq 3.16 or higher is installed on your computer

2. Install WinDaq add-ons. 

3. Restart WinDaq, and you will find the WinDaq add-ons integrated into Windaq->View->Add-ons menu (see the screen capture above).

4. Intelligent Channel Selection: Highlight/Select a channel in WinDaq and fire up the WinDaq add-on you wish, and the WinDaq add-on will use the selected channel as its default channel. 

5. Do not change WinDaq's configurations while WinDaq add-ons are running, or add-ons may terminate.

6. If you experience trouble with WinDaq addons, please email us the configuration files of WinDaq add-ons along with TPDATAQ.INI in Windows directory.

7. Like WinDaq recording software and WinDaq Waveform Browser, WinDaq addons can not store or open files stored under folders with UNICODE names. For example, if you create a folder on your desktop and name it in any language other than English, you can not store .WDQ files to that directory, nor open .WDQ files stored in that folder.

8. Find out more info from Extra Notes for WinDaq Add-ons