Seyonic Pipetting System

[paul_a_cardinale]

Has anyone sucessfully used LabVIEW to interface to a Seyonic pipetting system?

[Matt_McLaughlin]

Hi pcardinale,

What communication protocol are you using to connect to this device? (serial, GPIB, etc.)

-Matt

[paul_a_cardinale]

The device uses RS-232, but the provided documentation is only for the .NET interface.

[Jensen W]

Is this documentation what ships with the product?  Do the .NET examples call into any dll libraries, or are they .NET assemblies you can call from Labview?  Or do you have the programming guide to the device so that you can just send the commands via VISA through the serial port?

[paul_a_cardinale]

The documentation is what ships with the product.  There is no programming guide for sending commands through the serial port.

The example code is Visual Basic calling .NET assemblies.  I have tried to create equivalent code in LabVIEW, but without success.

[Jensen W]

Here is some informaiton about calling .NET assemblies in Labview.

Using .NET in Labview

Using .NET assemblies with Labview

Loading .NET 4.0 assemblies in Labview

If you can't get the assemblies to work you will need to see if you can get directions for programming it yourself and use Serial or CAN commands to communicate with the device directly instead of through the assemblies.