Instrument driver for MKS 647B

[temporal]

I have searched a lot of places but it appears that no one has the labview driver for the MKS 647B. Does anyone knows where to get one?

[Sergei]

Hi,

What is it - MKS 647B? Who is vendor?

[LoganS]

Just to make sure, you are using a MKS Instruments Multi Channel Flow Ratio/Pressure Controller 647B, right? Unfortunately, there is only one driver for an MKS instrument on our Device Drivers Network, and it is for a Partial Pressure Transducer. What kind of interface does this instrument have? GPIB? RS-232? RS-485? Do you have any kind of software for this instrument, such as a .dll file or a .h file that has standard functions defined for the instrument, or is controlling the instrument currently limited to low level message based and register based communication? Also, what programming language are you hoping to control the instrument with? LabVIEW? C? Let us know!

Logan S.

[temporal]

We are useing the instrument in Local mode. (Manual operation)
The instrument is capable of RS-323 and GPIB communication.
We have the Labview 7 and we would like to have a Labview program, due to user simplicity. The last thing you want during a long experiment is recalling syntax. 🙂

Thank you.

[Dennis_Knutson]

You've got several options if the vendor or someone who views this forum doesn't have a driver. 1. You can request a driver from NI by going to the Instrument Driver Request page. A request doesn't guarantee that they will develop the driver. 2. You could pay someone to do it. There is a worldwide network of alliance members that do this sort of a thing for a living. You can go here to find members near you or members that specialize in instrument drivers. 3. You can develop the driver yourself. Driver development is not all that difficult. There is the Instrument Driver Guidelines that has links to tools and documents that help a great deal.

[usm1]

Temporal, have you been able to develop drivers for the MKS flow controller? If you have, what is the possibility that I could use them? If not, any other type of help would also be appreciated. I just hooked up my MKS 647C to the computer and I have no idea where to even begin.

[rainier]

This may be what you need .... I was able to use this for my 647 unit. 🙂

[Mines]

I downloaded the zip file. Are there any instructions on how to use the libraries? Is there something I need to do or the program is ready to use?

[Albert.Geven]

Put the unzipped directory in the program files/national instruments/labviewx,y/instr.lib

and restart labview.
It should show up in the instrumentIO/instrument drivers section.