A driver for Masterscan 340 via serial port

[clausa]

I'm trying to connect a Masterscan 340 UT flaw detector to a computer, using the serial RS-232 port and Labview.

There is a commercial soft to do it, but I want use Labview.

Any ideas? Thanks for your answers. Aroldo from Buenos Aires.-

[LVNA]

You might want to check out the driver network: www.ni.com/drivers.  If no luck there, you'll probably have to write your own from the instrument driver's dlls which are generally provided free by the manufacturer.  For this check out the tutorials on the web for info on calling external code from LV.

[JasonSmith]

I did not see any instrument drivers available on the website, but please follow the link on the Instrument Driver webpage to Request Drivers.  This will let National Instruments know that there is interest in a driver for this device.

In the meantime, I agree with the previous post that you will probably have to create your own driver interface.  If the manufacturer provides a DLL interface, you can call the DLL functions using the "Call Library Function Node" in LabVIEW.  If no DLL is available, you will need to implement the serial commands yourself, using NI-VISA.

If making your own drivers, I would recommend that you look into the Instrument Driver Wizard and the Instrument I/O Assistant which are available in LabVIEW, as these will be able to aid you in the process of interfacing with your instrument.  You will; however, need a command reference manual for your instrument in order to implement the commands yourself.

[clausa]

Thanks lvna & JasonS
Before writing this post, I review the driver network (www.ni.com/drivers) without results. Similar negative results in google.

So, I do not have left another alternative that to write my own interface from DLL or serial visa.

Tanks again.
Excuses mi limited English.
Aroldo.-

[unclebump]

Only thing that I could reference on google was a Masterscan communication manual 147239. Maybe you could get them to send you a pdf file. Do you have a software demo that will talk to the device?? You could use portmon to reverse engineer the dataflow.