Running Fluke with Labview

[transworldweb]

Hi,

I am trying to read thermocouple data off of a Fluke 2686A. I can connect to the device based on the Get Started driver provided, however, I lack the knowledge of the methodology of writing Labview code in order to read the data, write it to a file, and display it graphically. If anybody knows how I should proceed or has insight into the programming methodology behind how I should proceed please respond. Thanks a million.

Steve.

[TongY]

Of you double-click on the "Getting Started" vi, it will open the lower level codes for this vi from where you will see the general programming flow for using this instrument:

Usually a measurement program should follow the steps below:

1. Initialize--Initializes the instrument, create an instrument handle and opens a session for the measurement task.
2. Configuration--Configure the properties of your instrument (measurement function, data range, etc), you can also configure triggering and specific measurements.
3.Measurement--further configure the parameters for a specific measurement type and read the data from the instrument
4.Close--Close the session for this measurement task and release the resources.

You program should follow these general guidelines and you may add more steps in between to customize your measurement. The following tutorial has information on how to use an instrument driver in LabVIEW:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/1B247C334745C03F8625694D0045C63C