mass flow controller

[ran]

hello,

does anyone have or know of a vi that can be used to read and display mass flow of a gas?

i have a mass flow controller(MFC) and it reads the gas flowing thru a pipe (or a tube, forexample). i want to be able to take the readings or signals from the MFC and display it on the front panel.

does anyone have something(VI) of the sought that i can maybe modify to do what i'm trying to do?

thanks
-r

[shoneill]

A lot of MFC's have an analog out denoting the "is" value of the mass flow.

Connecting this analog out (from the MFC) to an analog in of a DAQ card will allow you to record the values.

This is an easy thing to do (If your MFC has a simple analog out), so I'm not sure if you'll find ready-made functions for it.

Shane.

[Ankita A.]

Hi,

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Ankita A.
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