Spectrum One CCD 3000 GPIB 488.2

I have a JobinYvon Spectrum ONE CCD 3000 and I am controlling it with LabVIEW 5.1 on windows 98. I can run the image acquisition vi but after it takes one image, it freezes the connection to the ccd controller. So if I try to rerun the vi, or any other vi communicating to the ccd, it doesn't work. Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem or has anyone come across it before? Is it a hardware or software problem.
I thought perhaps the vi's were causing a problem with the ccd because it is Liquid Nitrogen cooled and this is not meant to be done unless the ccd is initialized, but there is no way to just initialize the ccd with labview that I can see. Any thoughts?

Dear Shellpetal
The initialization of the camera has nothing to do with its cooling. The controller (the big box) has a heater circuit controlling the Temperature (Set to 140K).
There are manuals (1) and (2) which should help you understanding the init process.
Image acquisition (depending on the binning) takes with today's state of the art PCs and the desired (see manual 1) NI GPIB card up to 15 seconds with an integration time of 1000ms.
Sending malformed commands (slightly wrong syntax) can crash the controller easily. Therefore: Go to NI MAX, Open a VISA session with the controller and send a the string "\DE" without "\r".
It is what they call "\<222>" in the manual. This resets the controller to the so called boot-mode.
Actually, all the numbers you will see in the manual that are in those <> brackets should be converted to hex. \<222> will be \DE.
Please use 'Query' to send the command to get a immediate response.
You can probe the state of the controller sending a "\s" (whitespace, again without term(ination) char(acter)). It should reply with "B" for boot mode.
After initialization it will respond with "F". If you get a "b" this means that your command could not be identified. In order to bring the controller from Boot to Main send the command "O2000\00" (now with the term char \00 or \x00). After probing with "\s" you should get "F" now as a response.
Now, use the CCDInit.VI in the LIB\CCD_sup_llb directory and try to init the CCD or the Demo VIs in LIB\CCD_demo_llb. There, the CCD is being initialized before doing anything.
I attached the VIs to control the CCD. I suppose you are not working with that thing after 7 years but maybe somebody else does.
Good luck and have a nice day.
JW
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JY-CCD3000V.zip ‏680 KB
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