MCDC3006S using VISA

[osmosis]

Good day all,

I was looking for how to drive a FAULHABER  Brushless servo- motor motor using the driver from the company (MCDC3006S). I will like someone with experience to please help out. While reading and searching for a solution I saw this link http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3367 and after reading through it came to my surprise that the word VISA was not mentioned in the tutorial as anything related to driving a motor. The reason why I am surprised is that I have seen in the data bank of the Labview forum where people have driven their motor with SERIAL communication. Please kindly clarify this.

Secondly, how do you think I can drive my motor with less stress.These are what I have

1) Faulhaber DC minimotor

2)MCDC3006S(The driver)

3)PCI 6221

4) Labview 2011.

Please I am tight on budget and anything CompactRio cannot be accommodated.

Than you as I await your response.

[RVallieu]

The only time you need to use VISA or Serial is if you are using a third party motion controller or integrated controller/driver that connects to the PC via serial or Ethernet.

When using the NI Motion Controllers you do not need to use VISA - you use the FlexMotion palette found on your tools palette under Vision and Motion.  If you are using SoftMotion you again would be using a different palette (but that is more advanced).  This is why you do not see VISA mentioned in the NI article you mentioned, they assumed you would be using NI Motion Controllers (i.e. PCI 7340, 7350, etc.).

With the controller you mention MCDC 3006S unless http://www.imotionsys.com/ provides a LabVIEW driver API that has the code written for you, you will have to write an Instrument Driver knowing the serial commands and syntax of the MCDC 3006S to get LabVIEW to control the motor system.