you will have to study the command structure for the device in question. You
might find it has a command line such as 10seta100 where 10 is the
instrument id, seta the parameter and 100 the value to enter.
Unlikely. However if it's non 485 then it will most likely have different
commands and with luck ignore the 485 ones. It might not though...
"jony" wrote in message
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> Hy there.
> I wish to communicate with an R-485 network with Labview.
> For that, I have a RS-232 port in my computer that links
> to an RS-232->Rs-485 converter where several branches
> come in. My question is, how do I communicate with
> each RS-485 device in Labview? How do I set an address to
> a specific instr
ument to send and receive data???
> Also..
> If I have an instrument that is not RS-485 but use a
> RS-232->RS-485..wire...RS-485->RS232(computer), Is it possible
> to identify that instrument in the network with an address???
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jony
>
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