Communicting with a device that uses the K-Net protocol

[ssmith490D]

I have HPLC pump that was built in Germany. The K-Net protocol is used to communicate with the device serially (RS232). Does anyone have any experience/ insight about how to do this. Is there any VI's that will convert ascii commands to this K-Net protocol?? Thanks.

ssmith

[Kevin_H]

Hey ssmith,

Thank you for contacting National Instruments.  If you know the commands you will be using to interact with the pump, you can use VISA commands in LabVIEW to handle the communication. 

If you do not have the VISA driver installed, you can find that here: NI-VISA 4.2

Also, you might try searching our Instrument Driver Network, as there could be a driver already developed for your pump that would make things easy for you.

Regards,

Kevin H

[ssmith490D]

Thanks Kevin. I was somewhat misinformed. The pump has a setting for standard ASCII 232 communication and I have a command set. So for now I'm good to go. Thanks again.

Scott