How to use hpvee driver in Labview

[mubo]

Hi;

I am having trouble with some kind of old oven. I have to control this oven by Lab view (serial communication)

I have a driver file which is written for Hp-vee.

So my question is; whitout reinventing the wheel How can I use this oven driver (designed to use with hp-vee) in labview;

If you have any suggestions It will really help me.

By the way whi wonders about the oven, it is a 1989 VMT 07/35 test chamber

kind regards

m. Bolatkale

[NahoY]

What kind of driver file is this?  Need more info!

[falkpl]

I am not sure about using the Vee driver but if it is a serial device and you have the command set, writing a visa driver (especially for a simple device like an over) is usually not too hard.  essentially all you have to do is open a visa session, send the parsed command string, wait for the reply parse the ascii reply and when done close the visa session.

Paul

[mubo]

the driver that I was talking about is an INSTRUMENT DRIVER FOR HP-VEE (Agilent VEE).

the problem is that I do not know the exact commands for the oven threfore I am hoping to use this

driver.

In any case I attached the driver. The other problem is that the comments are written in dutch:)

kind regards

mubo

[RikPrins]

Hello Mubo,

I did a search on google on the serach word VMT0735. With this I found out that the manufacturer of this oven is: Heraeus and the type is: VMT 07/35. I did a search on our Instruemnt Driver Network http://ni.com/idnet but there was no Instrument Driver available for this oven.

I did a quick search and found the website of this manufacturer: http://www.kendro.com/heraeus.html

Contasct them to maybe get the command set for this oven so you can use the VISA functions to program it.

Hope this helps,

RikP

National Instruments 

[falkpl]

If you have not used Labview and VISA to write a driver dont be intimidated, I wrote my first a few years back with this method and it was not a steep learning curve took about a day to figure it out.  This is a simple way to go, especially  if you only are only interested in a few commands (I.E.: set temp, get temp, set alarm .... like most ovens have).

Paul