LabView Instrument Profiles

[Brian Wells, Space Research Institute]

Cameron:
I'm working on a similar type of application that uses various user
inputs to control my instrumentation. I also used an array of clusters
that I can flatten and unflatten for file storage. The way I handled
the problem you describe is to create a local variable and pass user
inputs into the cluster. One thing you might want to do that I found
useful was to validate all my user inputs prior to passing them to the
local variable. This way your instrumentation doesn't receive invalid
set-up commands. Although this may not be to critical for your
application without verifying my input I could potentially damage the
device under test by acidentaly adding a zero to a voltage or
temperature profile.
I hope this is helpf
ul.
Another hint I recently found out about something called a state machine
for building user interfaces. My interface sort of looks like astate
machine but I wish I would have learn about them before I started.
Take care,
Brian Wells
Space Power Institute

PS: I thinking about looking into organizing a little bit tighter
network of people starting to use LabView. I recently started writting
Labveiw code several months ago and have thought that I would learn more
if there were more individuals to bounce my ideas off of. I am
currently developing software to control an instrument of my design to
test the effiency of solar cells at various temperatures. In the near
future I will probally be writting some software for cycling and
analyzing super capacitors and in the fall I'll be working with fuel
cell characterization. If your work leads you into test bed design and
you might be interested in a internet learning group drop me a line.
I'm still not sure how it would work but I expl
oring possibilities
currently.

[FilRod]

Hi

I'm new to labview and also building some test stand for solar cells. I'm presently debating with some problems and would apreciate if we could change some ideas...

Regards

[Dennis_Knutson]

Are you expecting an answer from an 11 year old thread or from someone that has not posted anything in the last 7 years?

If you have problems and want some help, start a new thread and describe them.

[FilRod]

I was hoping that someone doing similar work would give some help. I've seen several post about solar cells, but looked about specifically one problem, that I still haven't faced.

This is really a thread digging. My bad.

Cheers!