June 2016
This file contains important information about the LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite, including system requirements, installation instructions, and new features.
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The LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite provides VIs that you can use to create applications that measure, analyze, monitor, and record electrical power data and phenomena. Use the Power Measurement VIs to measure electrical power parameters and to perform harmonic analysis on the CompactRIO platform, the CompactDAQ system, and the NI PXI platform. Use the Power Quality VIs to perform power quality measurement on the CompactRIO platform, the CompactDAQ system, and the NI PXI platform. Use the Synchrophasor VIs to perform synchrophasor measurement and use the Protection VIs to implement protection devices on the CompactRIO platform.
The Electrical Power Suite complies with the following standards:
In addition to the system requirements for the LabVIEW Development System, LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite has the following requirements:
Refer to the LabVIEW Readme for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW 2016.
LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite supports the following operating systems:
1 NI software installs VC2015 Runtime and .NET 4.6.1. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 require Microsoft updates to support these items. Refer to Microsoft KB2919442 and KB2919355 for more information about how to install these updates.
2 NI software is signed with a SHA-256 certificate. Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 require Microsoft updates to support SHA-256. Refer to Microsoft KB3033929 for more information about how to install this security update.
Double-click the setup.exe file in the root directory of the Electrical Power Suite installer and follow the instructions on the screen to install the Electrical Power Suite.
With this release, the LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite drops support for Microsoft Windows 8.0, Windows 7 RTM (with no service pack), Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite and later will not install or run on an unsupported OS. You cannot deploy or distribute applications that use LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite to an unsupported OS. Additionally, after installing LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite, you cannot use any installers built on this computer with any version of LabVIEW, LabWindows™/CVI™, NI TestStand™, or Measurement Studio on an unsupported OS.
For more information about the changes to our OS support for 2016, refer to KB 79UC78LS, Why Does my LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Measurement Studio, or TestStand Built Installer Fail on Windows XP/Vista and Server 2003?.
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LabVIEW 2016 Electrical Power Suite adds support for the following software:
You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the NI website for an up-to-date list of known issues in the Electrical Power Suite.
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in the LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of the LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
ID | Fixed Issue |
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538527 | Parse Command Frame VI did not function normally in error handling and could not parse certain user-defined command set |
Refer to the LabVIEW Help, accessible from Help»LabVIEW Help in LabVIEW, for information about the Electrical Power Suite.
Select Help»Find Examples from LabVIEW to launch the NI Example Finder. Navigate to the Toolkits and Modules»Electrical Power folder to access the examples. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.
You also can find the examples for the Electrical Power Suite in the labview\examples\Electrical Power directory.
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes. However, starting with the August 2012 releases (products using NI Installers version 3.1 or later), you may need to perform additional steps before or during a silent installation of NI software.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.
For more information about automating the installation of NI products, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:
Microsoft Windows 10 is the latest version of the Windows operating system and features significant changes compared to previous versions. Windows 10 introduces several new capabilities and also combines features from both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For more information about NI support for Windows 10, visit ni.com/windows10.
When you install NI software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), and NI Launcher. For more information about NI support for Windows 8.1, visit ni.com/windows8.
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