Problem controlling peristaltic pump

[rmc543]

We are tyring out out labveiw 9.0 to determine if we want to use it to control instruments for our epxeriments and are having allot of trouble hooking up our peristaltic pump to the computer. It is a ismatec reglo digital pump, which labview does not have a plug and play driver for.

Instead we downloaded the labveiw driver provided by isamtec, but have not been able to get it to work since we cannot find any directions on how to install and operate a 2nd party driver. The following error message keeps coming up whenever we try to plug the pump in. 

Error -1073807202 occurred at Property Node (arg 1) in VISA Configure Serial Port (Instr).vi->RegloPumpenDriver.vi->Controlling_the_Pump_Reglo_D.vi->Reglo Digital.vi
 

Does anyone know how to hook up this type of insturment to labveiw?

Thanks

[Davidek]

Hi

The explanation for that error code is:

LabVIEW:  (Hex 0xBFFF009E) VISA or a code library required by VISA could not be located or loaded.  This is usually due to a required driver not being installed on the system.
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VISA:  (Hex 0xBFFF009E) A code library required by VISA could not be located or loaded.

I had a look at the driver and it was written for LabVIEW 6.2 so some thing will have changed in LabVIEW 2009. The Driver consists of a number of VIs (programs) that call a lower level driver, NI-VISA. What version of VISA do you have installed? You can check that in the Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX) under "Software".

Best Regards

David

NISW