Dear All,
My name is Dennis aka "bulletman". I'm a chemical engineer and at this moment
I have an experimental setup that I would like to control with Labview. At this moment
everything is done manually. The setup contains the following things:
3x Balances RS232
6x Mass Flow Controller, RS232
1x Mass Flow Reader, RS232
3x Temperature Control, RS232
2x ISCO pumps, RS232
2x Characterization machines, RS232
One week ago, I started to be interested in using labview and I did some online tutorials and played around in the programm itself.
I think the program itself is not that hard to use, but I don't have any experiences with data acquisition so far. At this moment I'm not
sure which kind of hardware I need for my purpose. If I understand correctly, I need a DAQ card which is connected to a box with multiple
RS232 connections. By addressing the cards com port and the respective channel (every channel is anothere RS232 port?) it becomes possible
to read/control the experiment? Please help me out!
Next, Do you guys think it is duable (for an in-experienced person like me) to write a labview program that is able to control/read the MFC's, TC's, pumps etc.
Thanks,
Dennis