How to use Thermotron 7800 drivers

[buton]

I found the drivers on the Ni webpage and an download them succesfully.

I open the driver and there is no documentation. but they are kind of easy to figure it out. i only need to do 3 things with this driver.

Get oven temperature

Get Setpoing

Set Setpoint.

i found the vi to get the setpoint but it is aksing for a string(channel Name)  i wonder how is that string needs to be. CH0? Channel0? just 0?Chan0?

also to get the temperature i guess is done by using Get Variable.Vi but it asks for Channel name whichi dont know what ithey oven expects to be.

I dont have the Computer Interface Manual to figure that out. Just wondering if anyone outhere may have some info on this..

Thanks

[natasftw]

Don't they install with examples that you can use to see how they set up the API?

[buton]

Nop...

seems that Thermotron delted some help pages also...

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't know what help pages you say are missing. The help is usually part of the driver. Does the Context Help say anything at all? You really should have the manual and by looking at it and the block diagram, the answer should be obvious.

[buton]

nop it did not come with help.. maybe some other drivers do come with them.. .but this one is really old i guess..

it only has context help...

[Dennis_Knutson]

Context Help is all you should have and all that you should needl when it is written correctly. When you open the VI that requires a channel name, what does the help say? What does the manual say?

[buton]

The help does not have anything it is grayed out when you right click the vi.... And I don't have the manual...

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't know why you would right click the VI. What I said was to open the subVI and view the controls with just the context help. Move your mouse over the control in question. You can also view the block diagram.

You really need to have the manual.

[buton]

I already did all that and the vi block diagram is a dll call.


I need the manual but it does not seem that some on the forums have it.

Thermotron customer service sucks, I caledl and they could not get back to me with a quote for it. I will call again today.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Sorry, I did not realize that the code was based on a dll call.