10-01-2008 05:10 PM
Hello,
I recently downloaded some labview drivers from the company that makes my quadropole mass spectrometer in order to make pressure measurements under ultra-high vacuum. The company that wrote the vi's to be used with the mass spec wrote them to take a reading, re-settle back to a signal/noise ratio and take another reading. So the elapsed time between readings isn't always the same, but I need it to be the same for my application. The company told me to "append the dwell% and settle% to a dwell time and settle time (in ms). I found the bundle that I need to append, but I don't no how to append it. How do I change these two items?
I've attached the vi's I got from the company the one I need to append is the "HAL Mass Spec Multi Scan Editor" and the Dwell and Settle%'s are in a bundle to the far left of the block diagram.
Thank You
10-04-2008 10:22 AM
Hi nc1062,
If we are talking about clusters, you need to separate the elements first by using Unbundle By Name or Unbundle, select the element you want to append and append those elements together by using Build Array or Initialize Array.
However, I am not sure whether by appending those two elements would make the time between reading the same or not. Hope that helps!
Sincerely,
Krisna Wisnu
10-04-2008 01:36 PM
You need more data. You could add dwell time and settle time variables to the Scan Parameters bundle, but whatever reads those parameters won't be looking for them, so your efforts won't help.
I think you got the brush-off from Hiden. You need to get back on the phone and hammer at Tech Support until they give you to someone who can actually help. This isn't a LabVIEW isssue (yet!).