Envirotronics Solutions Plus Controller

[blane12001]

I am attempting to write some drivers for an Envirotronics Chamber with a Solutions Plus controller. Has anyone attempted this before? Is there any documentation on how and what to communicate with the Solutions Plus controller?

Any help I can get would be appreciated.

[cbutcher]

Hi,

The manual for the Solutions Plus controller is available here. In terms of LabVIEW programming, I expect the information you want is under the Remote Communications chapter, beginning at page 33. 

Communications can be carried out using a serial connection with a collection of settings that have to be selected on the controller, presumably using the non-remote interface (i.e. the screen). The remaining pages of the chapter give a brief summary of the effects of each command that can be sent to the controller.

To program these in LabVIEW, you'll presumably want to start with the VISA Configure Serial Port node, which has inputs for the same values that you set on the controller (Baud, Number of Bits, and so on). Then, you can use the VISA Write and VISA Read nodes with string constants to create small SubVIs which carry out a specific task, and format the output that is returned in whatever manner suits your application best.