Bronkhorst FLOW-BUS LabVIEW Driver - Manual (Page 4)

Bronkhorst®
9.17.078 4 FLOW-BUS LabVIEW™ Driver Manual
Table of contents
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 General Product Information 1
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Introduction
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 References to Other Applicable Documents
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Manuals and user guides 1.2.1
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Technical drawings 1.2.2
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 Supported Instruments
...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4 System Requirements
...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.5 Installation of the driver package
...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 NI Instrument Driver Finder Installation 1.5.1
...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Manual Installation 1.5.2
...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Interfaces 2
...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 RS232 on Multibus Instrument
...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Applications, e.g. EL-FLOW 2.1.1
...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 RS232/FLOW-BUS Interface
...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 D-connector for RS232 2.2.1
...................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Operation 3
...................................................................................................................................................................... 9 3.1 Accessing the Driver VI’s
...................................................................................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Driver Structure
...................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Basic Application Structure 3.2.1
...................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Standard Driver VI Structure 3.2.2
...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Adding a Driver VI 4
...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 4.1 Sending a Parameter
...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 4.2 Requesting a Parameter
...................................................................................................................................................................... 13 4.3 Example
...................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Service 5