Slow Power Ramp Up

[AndreUVA]

Hello, 

I have a high power voltage supply.  I need to slowly ramp up the voltage of the power supply, say 20 V per second, up to 1000 V.  

I can control the power of the supply manually. For example I can set the power supply to be 100 V run the program, then 120 V run the program, etc. Is there a way to have the program do this automatically?

Attached please see my code.

Thanks for the help.

Respectfully, 

Andre

[crossrulz]

What power supply?  Do you have drivers for it?  A simple FOR loop or a state machine could easily do this.

[AndreUVA]

I have a SRS PS 350.

Can I take my entire program and then do a small for loop with a let's say half a second delay? How would I incrementally increase the power to the supply?

Thanks for your help.

[crossrulz]

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AndreUVA wrote:

Can I take my entire program and then do a small for loop with a let's say half a second delay? How would I incrementally increase the power to the supply?

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Use a shift register to hold your set voltage and increment it with each iteration.

[AndreUVA]

Thanks

[Dennis_Knutson]

Or use the Ramp function to create an array of step values and wire that through a for loop.

[AndreUVA]

Could you please provide me with a bit more information, where do I find the ramp function? and do I simply replace my manual control with a ramp function?

I apologize LabVIEW is not my strong area.

Help is greatly appreciated.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Use the search button on the function palette.

You should look at some of the free tutorials. Pay attention to the auto-indexing feature of a for loop.

[AndreUVA]

Thanks