Using an ISA GPIB-PCIIA via LabVIEW 5.1

[Shellpetal]

I'm trying to communicate with a Spectrum ONE CCD3000 using LabVIEW 5.1 on Windows 98. I'm using an ISA GPIB-PCIIA 488.2 card. MAX can find the instrument but when I try to communicate with it, it doesn't work. Also, if I rescan for instruments, it no longer detects any instrument.

I have configured the card correctly. Any ideas?

[JamesC]

Hi Shellpetal,

Have you tried using another GPIB card, to see if the original one is faulty?
Please can you give me more information on the device you are trying to communicate to. I.e manufacturers website and so on, so I can work out if it is 488, 488.1 or 488.2 compliant.

Also is this a listener only device, or does it communicate too.

Regards
JamesC
NIUK and Ireland

[Shellpetal]

Yes the ccd3000 is a National Instruments device. It is both a listener and a talker. I spoke to NI and they said that the MAX that comes with LabVIEW 5.1 had problems and to ignore this irregularity! But I've gotten the ccd to work now. Thanks for the help.

Michelle

[iheisler]

I am having the same problem, I cannot communicate with the One CCD3000 equipment. Using MAX, the first time it see's the CCD but when I try to communicate, I have no answer. What have you done to sort out this problem. Thank you.

[Shellpetal]

Ok well my initial problem was that I was using LabVIEW 6.0 and the vi's that come with the Spectrum One CCD3000 will only work with LabVIEW 5.1 which runs on Windows 95/98.

A member of staff from National Instruments told me that the MAX with LabVIEW 5.1 was unstable and so to ignore it.  I had to physically changed the base i/o address to 0278h on the ni ISA GPIB 488.2 board as per the instructions with the manual for the gpib0 and dev5 settings.

Once I did that, it worked fine.

I have found that there is an instability with the controller. If you run the vi, for example the Spectral Acquisition Demo.vi, and it takes longer than a minute for it to start then you have to turn on and off the ccd controller, not necessarily the computer. This instability can only be fixed by sending it back to JobinYvon, but we haven't done that here, yet.

If you need anymore advice, I'll help how I can! But I warn you that I'm no expert!

Message Edited by Shellpetal on 07-20-2007 06:08 AM

[aucsna]

Hi Shellpetal

  i'm namal from sri lanka, we also have the same card ISA GPIB-PCIIA , possible to get the windows 95/98 drivers.

pls help to me.

THanks

namal.

[iheisler]

Thank you so much for helping. What I am trying to do is through MAX, communicate with the CCD following the instructions of the manual.I work with Labview 7.1 and MAX version is 4.0, on windows xp. The problem is that even the original software, SpectraMax, doens't works anymore. Looking the manual of the CCD, it says that the Base I/O address should be 02B8H. Are you sure that you changed it to 0278h?

Thank you.

[aucsna]

Hi All,

  i'm namal we also have the same card ISA GPIB-PCIIA , possible to get the windows 95/98 drivers.

pls help to me.

THanks

namal.

[Shellpetal]

Yes, sorry you are correct, I changed the base i/o address to 02B8H, interrupt=none, and dma channel=01.

Yes, we had the same problem. We couldn't get the image function to work with Spectramax without the computer freezing! The instability of the controller also was a big problem with Spectramax, which is why I believe the instability to lie with the controller and not the software. I had hoped that it would solve the problem, but no.

I commend you trying to make up your own vi's for the ccd! I had trouble just figuring out the structure of them!

[Shellpetal]

I'm sorry I don't get the question? You just need LabVIEW 5.1 to work with Windows 95/98, if that helps.