What all do I need to get LabVIEW to monitor an Isco pump?

[Kuehler]

I am running an Isco pump, 1000D series, overnight and was wondering how to get the LabVIEW software onto my computer so that I can continuously monitor the operation of the pump.

[P@Anand]

Monitor the opertaion of the pump means?. What exactly you want to achieve by using LabVIEW?. Do you want to monitor the pressure, Flow, Temperature , speed of the pump?. It would be better if you give a detailed question.

[Kuehler]

I would like LabVIEW to monitor the pressure of the pump. We have been having issues with back pressure regulators and pressure drop so I would like to see exactly when the problem occurs. So maybe have LabVIEW take a pressure reading every couple of minutes with a time signature or something like that

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

LabVIEW is software. You need to have hardware to monitor the pressure. What specific hardware were you planning on using? What interface does it have for accepting remote commands from LabVIEW?

[P@Anand · Accepted solution]

Then you need to have pressure transducer with proper outputs that can be feed to a PC and a DAQ for acquiring the transducer signal. You need to write a code for data acquisition ( It is available in LabVIEW examples). So get a DAQ hardware (probably NI USB DAQ should be sufficient if it not critical) and then hookup the transducer and take the LabVIEW code from examples and do the channel configuration and there you go you are ready to monitor the pump. If you want to run the software for a long time then contact a LabVIEW engineer and make that as an application.

[Kuehler]

Thank you so much

[RandyR]

This ISCO pump, I think, supports serial interface. You can control and monitor via 232. No need for additional instrumentation hardware. It already has the pressure transducer and you can also monitor the pumps status and logic.

Randy

[jacobdiemer]

Isco provides some (old) sample code to communicate with the pumps.

http://www.isco.com/products/appnotes.asp?PL=10510 (Labview Pump Driver Demo, under software utilities)

[villos89]

How do we get this Panel.vi to run for a set of ISCO pumps

[RavensFan]

Where are you having problems?  Do the messages above not help you?

If you can ask a question with some substance, you might be able to get some help.