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trigger mass flow controllers using a timed loop

Hi,
Here is my question. Any kind of help will be appreciated.
I have a mass flow controller (MKS 647B) and have the drivers to do certain jobs such as setting up set point and manually opening or closing valves. But i need to open and close different sets of valves at different time intervals. For example, i want to open channel 1 at t=0 then close channel 1 and open channel 2 at t=10 sec. I am new to labview an can think of only one option. Generate a wavefront for dt=10 sec with output as (0-1-0-1) and even I cant implement it. If someone can help me out with this that would be great.
Thanks,
Vikrant
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Hey Vikrant,
         There are numerous ways to accomplish this.  The easiest would probably involve using a timed loop with a case structure.  Send the iteration count to the case structure, and open and close valves based on how much time has elapsed.  If you'd like some simple example code, I could post some, but you'll probably get more help on this particular issue if you post in the LabVIEW forum instead of the counter/timer board.  This seems like more of a LabVIEW code issue than a hardware issue.


Brian B
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National Instruments
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