Creating Labview VI for Newport's ESP6000 motion controller

[akcay]

I am working on creating a Labview VI for ESP6000 motion controller (Newport). I want to move to stages independently one by one and acquire synchronized data from the analog input of the controller during the motion of the one of the stages. If there is anyone working with Labview on ESP6000, I will be glad to dicsuss common issues, obstacles, sub vi's etc.

ceyhun

[Photon_Dan]

We built a test station for an automotive component with the ESP6000. The biggest limitation we ran into was the 1000-sample buffer capacity of the analog input. We were hoping that it would behave like the NI DAQ boards. It was not our choice to use the ESP6000. The customer supplied it. The whole setup cost in excess of $9,000. The NI equivalent would be about 2/3 that much. Anyway, Newport supplies a driver that does work. It takes some work to get everything going properly though.

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Daniel L. Press
PrimeTest Corp.
www.primetest.com