labview driver of EG&G 5206

[nicky]

is there someone who has made a driver for the lock in EG&G 5206 for labview 5.0?
thanks

[Jeremy Braden]

If you have the manual and the proper commands, you can write the driver yourself. It just becomes a matter of creating a VI that sends those commands. Your task is much easier if you can copy and modify an existing VI that already communicates with your instrument. This technique, however, will not work for VIs with library nodes. In this case, you will have to write the LV code from scratch. Look for a legacy driver on our insturment database for some examples.

Jeremy Braden
National Insturments

[mikled]

I have the same old unit without the manual. Is someone could send me the command?

[thehobbs]

I believe that Signal Recovery now owns/supports EG&G instruments. They provide LabVIEW drivers for several different models including a 5106. This instrument may have very similar commands to your 5206.
http://www.signalrecovery.com/LabViewDrivers.htm

NI provides a LabVIEW driver for an EG&G 5208. This instrument may also be similar to your device. My suggestion is to review these drivers and see if you can adapt them to your model. If so, please submit your updated driver to the Instrument Driver Network and share it with the rest of the community or let me know if one of the existing drivers worked for you.
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niid_web_display.drv_results?p_app_area=&p_man=EGG&p_keywords=&p_inst_type=&p_env=&p_drv_type=&p_int=

Thanks,
Jason Hobbs
Instrument Drivers