shutter control with APT driver

[dgen]

Hello

I am quite new to Labview. I'd like to remote control a shutter SH1 with tsc001 controller within a Labview VI.

I have seen that one can use the activex objects to insert an APT driver in a Labview VI (thorlabs drivers for motion control, see http://www.thorlabs.com/images/TabImages/GuideToLabVIEWandAPT.pdf, and http://www.thorlabs.com/tutorials/APTProgramming.cfm). Unfortunately, there are many activex objects (APT Chopper / laser / motor / tec controls) but not the shutter control that I need.

can anyone please help me? thanks a lot

Damiano

[dgen]

I have come to know that I should use the APTPZmotor activex object.

I have tried but it does not work. I think it does not recognize the serial number, which is right (it is both on the physical device and on the APT software interface). I attach the image of the VI I wrote copying a standard one.

The VI runs, but I get an error in the APTPZmotor interface and I cannot give it any command. Furthermore, the serial number on this interface is not the one I insert from the serial number property node (that's why I think the problem is on the HWSerialNumber property node).

thanks for our help

Damiano

[dgen · Accepted solution]

Thorlabs gave me the answer, here it is if anyone should meet the same troubles: to communicate with a tsc001 solenoid shutter control one should use the MG17motor activex object, instead of APTPZMotor. Then everything will work fine.

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