Sens-Tech P25 USB PMT with LabVIEW?

[adamatk]

Hello, for my experiment at university, I am using a sens-tech P25 photomultiplier tube (http://www.sens-tech.com/products/modules/usb-modules/) to measure counts for a scintillation experiment.

I have already emailed sens-tech about using LabVIEW with the pmt, they tell me I need VISA. I have it installed, ran the device manager, installed the drivers. And now I'm stumped. I don't know how to use LabVIEW with it, it isn't coming up on the i/o instrument assistant.

Could anyone help me?

[Dennis_Knutson]

According to the manual, it should appear as a com port. Do you see it MAX as such? What does it show in Windows device manager?

[adamatk]

I will let you know tomorrow, as it is all on the computers in the university.

[adamatk]

So this is what the device manager looks like.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't see any com ports. The NI-VISA device usually appears after running the VISA wizard. Did you run that?

[adamatk]

Yes, I ran the driver wizard, when I go on NI Measurement and Autonomation Explorer this is what i get.

[adamatk]

It appeared I didn't install the INF, i thought the generated files from the INF actually installed to windows. After copying the generated INF to c:/windows/inf right-clicking and installing the INF, it is now appearing as COM3 in NI Measurements and Autonomation Explorer.

[adamatk]

So now going onto LabVIEW and using the Instrument assistant I can finally pick up COM3 which is the PMT tube, am I now sorted to take some measurements?

[Dennis_Knutson]

I would never use the assistant but it appears you can now go ahead and try communicating. I usually start with doing some basic reads and writes with a terminal emulation program such as hyperterminal, putty, teraterm, or the VISA test panels in MAX.

[adamatk]

What would you do? What would be the most simplest method?