Fluke 45 Again

[Jeff (Systems Integrator)]

Please clarify the procedure used to acquire data from the Fluke 45 with the serial port in ANY possible way. I am new to NI and am unfamiliar with all aspects of this product.
Thanks.

[jws]

The only available way will be through the serial vis located in the Instrument I/O >> I/O Compatibility sub-pallette. You will have to determine the command strings that need to be sent to the Fluke and you will also have to know how many bytes of information each command will generate as a response from the Fluke.

The basic structure would be to send the command string, wait until the Fluke responds, and then read the expected number of bytes from the serial port.

[Aaron_G]

Jeff,

I would recommend that you start by looking at the Serial Compatibility VIs in the online help. The basic LabVIEW program, will use a Serial Port Init to configure the serial port (should only need to be done once), serial port write to transmit data (will usually be done many times in the program), a bytes at serial port wired to the read serial port to read the data that the instrument you transmitted sent, and finally a serial port close (done at the end of the program). Additionally, you can look at the serial communication examples.

You will need to know the valid commands for the Fluke 45 in order to communicate it. Likewise, you will need to know what the responses look like in order to decode the response.

Regards,
Aaron