Driver for Huber ministat cc3

[Zoly2]

Hi

I am about to develope a serial driver for the Huber ministat cc3 controller.

I was wondering whether anyone can share his experinece in this.

Thanks

Zoly

[EmmaR]

Hi Zoly,

I was hoping that I might find you a ready made driver in the NI Developer Zone on the Instrument Driver Network.

However, having searched extensively both there and on the internet I could not find a ready made driver for the Huber ministat cc3 controller.

If you are going to build a driver for this controller yourself you might find this tutorial useful:

"Developing LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Drivers"

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/6100BC4CA014910786256E4A006FE675

I hope that this helps you,

Emma R

NIUK & Ireland

[dsn]

Is any driver for Huber avaialbe now?..thanks.

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I'm french so my english is bad. I would like work with ministat cc, did you manage to create a program or find one? thanks

[dsn]

Hi, I have worked with some huber equipments...i didnt make a complete driver..but just used to write SP and read the temperature. there are multiple commands that Huber understand which is good. it was relatively simple. but be sure to chek the cable...in call my cases I needed a crossed serial cable.

regards

Dsn

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Thank you for responding. Did you use PP or LAI protocol? I think to use PP protocol. I have CC with combox, need i to use combox cable? For Labview, i need to use visa?

[dsn]

i used PP commands. you can use the cable or serial port provided, but be sure to confirm the kind of cable you need (straight or cross, test both if in doubt). use visa and serial vis to read and write commands.  also make sure on the huber panel that it is set for the same set of commnication rate etc. that you have configred in your visa or vice-versa. maybe i can send upload a sample vi sometime next week.

regards

Dsn

[Zoly2]

Hi

I initiated this question more than 5 years ago. Since there was nothing available then I made a quick driver to progress with my original application, and I intended to polish it and made available, knowing to large community of people who actually use these huber chiller units. There are many different units on the market, but they all tend to use the CC3 control unit hence the vI should work. Of course I have never had the time to polish it but I have been using this practically continuously in my lab and in several other labs, in long experiments, sometime controlling the unit for a week or more continuously and it works perfectly fine (i guess this was also the reason why I never get back to it in the past 5 years)...

This is now a integral part of one of my large applications but you should be able to use as is or get a good idea how todo one. It is based on some simple serial/visa examples.

I only used the basic read/write functions I needed, you can make a comprehensive vi to be able to set all Huber parameters from labview, but I did not need that.

You can download it from here:  www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cgzkn/huber/huber.llb

The cable is important, the first I just ordered from Huber, but after that we made the rest for the other units in my lab.

regards

Zoly

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hello, thank you very much for your response and your input. I will as soon as possible to version of LabVIEW 8.6, the one I use and I will try to see the operation. it helps a lot, so thank you again. good luck.

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hey, i have one question, is it possible to work with 2 ministat cc in same time with one labview program? i think that is possible because the serial port are different between the two ministat, but there have no adress, so i don't know if it's possible.