motorized elevator

[ziedhosni]

Actually, I have a very weak background in electronics but acceptable background with software. I am chemist as I told above.

[ziedhosni]

For the moment I have different motors, so the strength of the motor is not a big issue. But my real problem is to find the driver and the controller that can be used with labview and also should be cheap enough.

[ziedhosni]

I found an arduino  microcontroller in my lab. Do you hink it will be useful for my case.

[johnsold]

You cannot drive the motor with the Arduino any more than you can from the DAQ device.  You need a power device.

Lynn

[Emily-C]

Hi ziedhosni,

NI-Motion is made to work with NI motor controllers. You won't be able to use this directly with any third-party motor controllers. It's possible that someone could have written drivers to communicate with a third-party controller from LabVIEW, but that wouldn't be able to use any built-in LabVIEW motion capabilities. If you'd like to interface with LabVIEW, I suggest you purchase your motor controller from NI. Other parts of your motion system, like your motor drive and motors, can still be third-party.

Regards,