How to write a LabVIEW code for Acton SpectraPro 500i monochromator ?

[yyyang78]

Dear all,
I am a newbie to LabVIEW. However my project now requires me to write a LabVIEW program to control the monochromator and acquire data from it. There is no vi file for the above mentioned device. How should I go about doing it? Thank you very much.

[Dennis_Knutson]

There's several links on the Development Tools and Resources page

[Steve Parus]

I believe that monochromator comes with serial port control and
perhaps gpib. Its manual should list the commands needed to move the
wavelength, do a scan, change grating, etc. Look them up and try
sending simple ones out the serial port and see if it responds. First
be sure to initialize the serial port to the device's expected baud
rate, etc.

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:45:15 -0600 (CST), yyyang78 wrote:

>I am a newbie to LabVIEW. However my project now requires me to write
>a LabVIEW program to control the monochromator and acquire data from
>it. There is no vi file for the above mentioned device. How should I
>go about doing it? Thank you very much.

[JFHsu]

Hello!
I encounter similar problem in controlling
a ARC monochromator.
I have initialized it and write a simple
command in, but there is no response.
I am very confused, help me please! Thank you!

[craigherdman]

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@JFHsu wrote:
Hello!
I encounter similar problem in controlling
a ARC monochromator.
I have initialized it and write a simple
command in, but there is no response.
I am very confused, help me please! Thank you!

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JFHsu,

You may want to contact the manufacturer of the monochromator since their website indicates that LabVIEW examples ship with their devices (see "Can I write my own program to control the monochromator?")

National Instruments provides many instrument drivers on our ni.com/idnet webpage. If we can't find our instrument driver there then we really have two options: contact the manufacturer or write our own.

For the second case http://www.ni.com/idnet contains many documents that can help one write there own driver.

Hope that helps!

Craig H.
NI Applications Engineering