shinko JCx-33A serial driver

[Elad]

hallo I'm looking for shinko JCx-33A, temperature controler serial driver

[ScottieB]

Hello,

Unfortunately I was unable to find a pre-written instrument driver for this device for you. Try contacting the manufacturer as many manufacturers will have something written in LabVIEW to control their instrument. If you are unsuccessful in that approach, you will have to write one yourself using the serial VI's that ship with LabVIEW and a copy of the programmer's manual for your instrument which will tell you what commands to send to the controller for different operations. I suggest that you take a look first at the LabVIEW <-> Serial.VI shipping example and possibly at another serial instrument driver if you need more information on how to lay out your VI's.

Hope this helps,
Scott B.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Elad]

Hallo Scott & thanks for your replay
The manufacturer told me that the controller "understand" Modbus protocol (ASCII and RTU).
Is that halp me to comunicat whit LabVIEW 7?

Elad

[ScottieB]

Hello, Elad.

While you can communicate via your serial (RS232) port, there is no native Modbus support in LabVIEW, so you will have to understand what commands the device can accept. See the following KB:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/2CD034F223C650E9862569570041995C?OpenDocument

Scott B.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Martin Gustafsson]

As I write this, more than a year has passed since your original post. I just want to comment that the protocol for this Shinko regulator is the worst and most cumbersome I have ever seen, and I've seen lots of bad serial protocols. If you eventually found something, or if you managed to write some code yourself, I would be very thankful if you would share it.

[Elad]

Hi Martin,

Shinko's controlers comunicate 2 protocols: Shinko and Modbus.

LabVIEW have library for modbus.

try this link:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Reference-Design-Content/LabVIEW-Modbus-API/ta-p/3524019

Hope I helped

Elad

[Tfrl88]

Hello Elad, 

it's been a while since you posted it. 

But the link doesn't work anymore. I was wondering if could share with me the Shinko's protocols.

Thank you in advance. 

Best