dc motor speed control with a controlable power supply

[zimbo1990]

I am looking for a way to control a "Thurlby Thander PL330P" controllable power supply in labview. My knowledge of labview is very little and im sure this probably isn't that difficult. I need to be able to vary the voltage going to the power supply so that i can control the speed of my DC motor.
I have connected up the power supply via a GPIB interface cable. (NI-488.2) and i am using LabView 8.5.

Dose anyone know how I would go about doing this? Or could supply any useful examples.

Thanks. 

James.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

LabVIEW 101

[zimbo1990]

thanks this helped with learning some of the basics, however it still dosnt answer my question.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Did you bother viewing the videos on connecting hardware and acquiring data?

[NIquist · Accepted solution]

Get the LabVIEW driver by using "Help > Find Instrument Drivers... " or here:  http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E97F2659CE034080020E748...

I didn't load them but usually there are some simple VIs to send commands to your hardware.  ALWAYS look for instrument drivers for new hardware.  It saves you a lot of tedious work if they're available. 

[zimbo1990]

ya i have done that part already, it was writing the program for controlling the power supply  that i was looking for. but it is ok now i have managed to write one that work some what sufficently.

[zimbo1990]

thanks NIquist, that will be usefull later on.