Read Soaking status from Temptronics TPO4310

[Elamaran]

Hi All,

I am trying to control Temptronics thermostream TPO4310A from LabVIEW. I am able to Control and monitor Temperature and Air flow.

I need to get the Soaking status after I have initiated Air Flow. For example, if the configured Soak time is 120 Seconds, it will take 120 seconds settle at the temperature. I need to dispaly this Soak progress on my LabVIEW screen (control value decreasing from 120 sec to 0 sec).

It seems there is no deriver VI that reads this status from instrument directly. 

Please share your ideas.

(Please note, I cerntainly dont want to run a timer in LabVIEW for this purpose. I am trying to get the status from the instrument itself.)

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

It doesn't matter what you want or what the driver has.

What matters is does this instrument have this capability and that can only be determined by reading the remote programming manual.

[Elamaran]

Hi nyc,

Thanks for your comment.

I just figured out that we can read a condition register (TECR - Test Event Condition Register) which has 2 required bits called 'At Temperature(Soak time has elapsed)' and 'not at Temperature'. These bits will tell if Soaking done. 

But yet my actual need is not possible. I cannot read the Soaking time that runs on the instrument but only the status as '0' or '1'.

[earth1111]

Hi Anandelamaran,

Do you have the programmer manual for the Temptronics TPO04310 handy? I could not locate it on the Temptronics website.

Thanks
Srinivas

[Elamaran]

Hi Srinivas,

Of course I have. I have it in my office PC. I will share it to you tomorrow.

By the way,

It seems you are from India and working in the same domain as I am. Good to see such people here.

[Elamaran]

Hi Srinivas,

I am not able to upload the file here since it is more than 5MB. Send a mail me to my email ID elamaran@solitontech.com. I will forward the manual.

[DanAnalog]

Hi, I realize that this happened an age ago but did you happen to find a solution to the soak time monitoring problem?

Thanks,

Dan