Gilson 307 pump which are connected via a system interface module 506C

[Sauerstoff]

hello,

I have a master's thesis received the task to control gilson pumps.
Unfortunately I have no experience with LabView.

It is generally possible to steer the pump? I read a lot and it will describe this is not possible. But I have a compoliertes Pogramm and unfortunately can not get the source code and the driver. There you can control the pumps.

Can one of you help. I would be very grateful.

hardware:
three Gilson 307 which are connected via a system interface module 506C. The interface module is connected via an RS232 connection.
LabView 2012

Thank you very much in advance and best regards
Michael

[GerdW]

HI Michael,

when you search for "Gilson 506c" you will find a website (namely of the manufacturer) which also provides a user manual. You will need that manual to find resources on how to communicate with your interface. Didn't you learned to find such information at your university?

Once you read that manual you will start with HyperTerm (or similar) to test communication between PC and interface. Then you should continue with LabVIEW examples "Basic/Advanced serial reand and write"...

[Sauerstoff1]

Thanks for the extra comments GerdW.

Perhaps there is someone who wants to help me, in the manual are not the commands available. Even the technicians of Gilson I could not tell from his documentation of the command sets.

many greetings
Michael

[Norbert_B]

Michael,

if you don't get the list of commands the device "understands" from its vendor, there is not much you can do. Nor anyone else on the world....

So please contact the vendors support for retrieving that information. If they cannot or don't want to provide it, dump that hardware and pick one from a different vendor.

Norbert

[GerdW]

Hi Michael,

I didn't download the manual as they requested for log-in information...

When even Gilson isn't able to provide the communication details (who else should know all details?) then you still have the option to use some 3rd party software tools to sniff the communication over the serial connection. It's definitely the harder and more error-prone way. I would still insist with Gilson to provide all needed details...

Btw. you don't need to create a new account to answer in your own thread!

[GeoffAk]

I know this is from quite a long time ago, but in case someone else turns this up...

I wrote some code in MATLAB to talk to Gilson devices (and GSIOC in general), which I know isn't what this forum is about!  However, there is a word file packaged up with the code where I documented the protocols as best as I could - you should be able to use that to write something up in LabView.  The Gilson manuals do tell you what their commands are...but what they don't tell you is that the protocol for sending things is substantially more convoluted than that.  Basically you have to issue command strings one byte at a time, and waiting for it to send you an ACK in return.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/41810-gilson-hplc-pump-rs232-communication

[arthurbenedetti]

I have the 506c tech manual, there it says 19200 baud rate, even parity, 8 bit signal and 1 or 2 stop bits. If you want the tech manual give me a heads up