I have collected voltage measurements for a 60Hz waveform and would like to calculate the RMS voltage in order to determine voltage drift. The data was collected at 100KHz and the TDMS file is 4 hours long (a huge amount of data!). I have run the RMS tool in the basic mathematics block with small sets of data successfully, but the large set seems to take forever to run (48 hours so far and it hasn't finished yet).
1. Is there a faster way to analyze this much data?
2. How does the "one sided interval width" affect my results and analysis time?
3. Can I calculate the RMS voltage with FFT?
4. Is there a way to redce the size of my data file to a manageable size file so the RMS function will run quickly, yet maintain accuracy?