How can I control the GC/MS programming by ourselves

We have a new project that need to integrate many other sensors and instruments with GC-7890B/MS-5977B.

We need control all this intruments and read/merge the results.

But Agilent do not open the protocol to the third party(TCP/IP or RS232).

Is there any way to do this work? Thank you!

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  • Hello,

     

    Can you please provide us with the software product (OpenLab CDS, MSD ChemStation, MassHunter Acquisition) as well as the software revision (can be found by going to either Help>About or File>About depending on the product)?

     

    It is possible that there are third party drivers available for the other equipment you are attempting to control. Could you please provide us with a list of instruments you would like to control so that we can check this?

  • Thank you for your reply.Our old GC use ChemStation, but the new 7890B and 5977B in this project have no agilent software.

    The other instruments we would like to control and get data include:

    1,valco valve;

    2,solenoid valve;

    3,temperature sensor;

    4,some other RS232 sensors;

    The best way for us is to develop a new software for instrument control and data processing  that is independent of any other agilent software.

     

  • Hi Martin,

    It sounds like your work is what we are doing now.The LabVIEW or other programming tools and the ActiveX component of EZChrom are what we need from your reply . I know of LabVIEW,it is a powerful tool to do this work,but our programmer is only good at C# and Python.

    We will discuss which language we will use to do this work. Can you tell me which part of LabVIEW we will need and pay for?

    We will discuss for this in our group, and we will need more money to pay for LabVIEW tools and the programmer, but if we use C#, we will spend more time to do this work I think .

    If we can not get the Instrument Control Framework for the Agilent Instrumentation from our local Agilent branch,your plan may be the best way.

    Thank you, your information is very useful for me.You can reply here or send email to me [Personal Information Removed by Moderator] if you have more suggestions or information of your business or project like this.

    I will send information here if we have new progress.Thank you everybody!

     

    Best regards,

    Lin

  • Hi Martin,

     

    we are asked to do the samething ( control the Agilent 490 GC in a customer LabVIEW program since there are alot more going on that EZChrom cannot handle).

     

    We are a NI alliance partner in Canada and this is our business to build custom software to meet our customer's needs. If you can sell your LabVIEW Driver, we'd be interested if it supports the 490 model.

     

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    thanks,

    Vincent Carpentier

  • Vincent Carpentier

    I tried to get in contact with you  directly via your companys internet site, but there are no e-mail adress there at all, only a contact page that does not work. Whatever I try to enter on that page, I only get error message. Must be difficult to get customers that way !? Please try to find me and contact me directly, it seem Agilent will not let us use e-mail adress here.

     

    Martin Plassen

    SINTEF

  • As a note, if you follow each other on the Community then you will be able to send direct messages to each other. 

  • Thanks Ryoboyle.

    I was able to find Martin online and we are in touch now.

     

    Thanks,

  • Hi Martin, 
    I know it's been quite a while since you posted this, but I would like to do just what you said you do with LabVIEW. I'm using LabVIEW for data logging and I would like to interface the LabVIEW program with a MicroGC Fusion from Inficon. Do you have any examples of how I could log the GC method results into a tdms/csv file in sync with my cDAQ and VISA equipment? I might have to delve into ActiveX programming if I have to.

    Any help would be appreciated.
    Best Regards,
    micah

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  • Hi Martin, 
    I know it's been quite a while since you posted this, but I would like to do just what you said you do with LabVIEW. I'm using LabVIEW for data logging and I would like to interface the LabVIEW program with a MicroGC Fusion from Inficon. Do you have any examples of how I could log the GC method results into a tdms/csv file in sync with my cDAQ and VISA equipment? I might have to delve into ActiveX programming if I have to.

    Any help would be appreciated.
    Best Regards,
    micah

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