wind turbine overspeed guard

[WindTech]

Hello,

I bought a Arduino uno board and labveiw bundle to replace VOG (vestas overspeed guard). i'm basicly looking for a pulse counter that will trip a relay when it counts to many pulses in a certain amount of time. I have no experience with labveiw and on a schedule, can anyone help me out?

[WindTech]

Hello,

I bought a Arduino uno board and labveiw bundle to replace VOG (vestas overspeed guard). i'm basicly looking for a pulse counter that will trip a relay when it counts to many pulses in a certain amount of time. I have no experience with labveiw and on a schedule, can anyone help me out?

[johnsold]

First, you need to be much more specific about what kind of help you want.

What parts of the project will you be doing with LabVIEW and what parts with the Arduino?

Do you want to learn to program in LabVIEW? Do you have time to do so on your schedule? Do you want to hire someone to write LV code for you? Do you want to hire someone to do the whole porject?

The advice will depend strongly on the answers to those (and probably some other) questions.

Lynn

[WindTech]

I'm a college student, so i can't hire anyone. i guess i'm just asking if there are any good labveiw examples that might get me started.

[johnsold]

How will you be communicating between the Arduino and LabVIEW?  

What will the LV program be doing? What will the Arduino do?

Look under the Help menu for Find Examples... There are examples for serial communications and for hardware I/O and a lot of other things. In the latest versions of LV most of the examples are pretty well written. In some of the earlier versions some of the examples wer not so good.

Lynn

[Philosophe · Accepted solution]

A good place to start is pretty much anywhere in the "Analysis, Signal Processing, and Mathematics folder" (Yes the folder's name is that long). The sub folders "Signal Processing" and "Signal and Noise Generation" may be what you are looking for. There are many examples in there on pulsing and signal transmission.

The counter you are looking to implement may need a little clever thought though.

Hope that helps!