Controlling a Third party hardware

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I am new to LabVIEW Instrument control.

Here my duty is to control a servo motor controller using Lab VIEW. It is C-863.11 Mercury .

I am attaching the catalouge with this question.

Please guide me through the first steps for controllling this controller.

Thanks in advance

[Henrik_Volkers · Accepted solution]

Most important: RTFM!

You need at least a basic understanding of that hardware, what it does, how it is done, how to set parameter, ...

The documentation will tell you how to do it.

That device has a RS232 and USB connection. Maybe the USB is just a RS232 (so if you plug it into your PC you will see a COM port, or you have to install extra driver from PI. You have to find out.

Next, have a look at the NI driver network, ask PI, search the web , maybe a driver for LabVIEW already exist. (But you have to find out 1.What do I need to do?, and 2. What can the driver do??)

A simple start (AFTER reading the handbook about  how to control that device!) : connect the RS232 and start with the simple VISA write read example (LabVIEW uses it's VISA driver vis to link to the RS232) . You will need to set sertain parameters (like baudrate, databits,...) but the PI manual will tell you..