Need Help and Direction in controlling a Vacuum System

[sdgpromini]

Hi,

    I am looking into using Labview for the control of a relatively complex vacuum system used on a Particle Accelerator (Cyclotron) for the treatment of cancer using Protons and am after some direction and guidance on how best to approach this project.

The Interface will need to control and monitor the following items in no particular order:

Pirani Gauges

Penning Gauges

Cryopumps and associated valves for regeneration

Cernox Diodes

Flow switches

24 V solenoids

Turbopump

I have come up with the preliminary HMI and need help to go forward.

The problem I am currently looking at is how to control two valves off one user input that has to have a short time delay from when the first valve is opened to when the second valve opens.

Gary

[parthabe]

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@sdgpromini wrote:

The problem I am currently looking at is how to control two valves off one user input that has to have a short time delay from when the first valve is opened to when the second valve opens.

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Hi Gary,

It is pretty much hard to tell you solution for your top portion of the query. But regarding the above, what you can do is you can use the Wait[ms] delay primitive that you can see in the Time & Dialog pallette after the user presses the first valve. This will provide you with an intermittant delay between the opening of the two valves.

What version of LV are you using ? Always, tell this at the first post itself.

[sdgpromini]

The version of Labview I am using is 8.5