CAN, NI 9853, and LabView

[DesignFlaw06]

OK, pretty sure I allowed something stupid to happen. Because of our disastrous results with PWM cables in the past, our team wanted to do CAN this year. We ordered a new cRIO, since we didn't want to disable the robot from last year. Anyway, according to NI, to do CAN, we needed a NI 9853 which was $1200! Ouch!

Bit the bullet and got the hardware, but I can't seem to find much support on writing code to use that module. Everything seems to point me to using the Black Jag bridge method. Now I was able to use the BDC-Comm and assign unique IDs to all the Jags. And I can control the speed from the PC. Trying to use the NI 9853, I get a (of the top of my head) Error Code 52020 NetComm_can_send.vi something or other in the diagnostics box on the DS.

So my questions, I ordered the module 20 days ago. Should I just try to send it back and hope I can get my money back? Or is there something I can do to make this module work? Is there an advantage to the module? And can anyone explain what this error is? I get it with both my code and the CANResources project.

Shame on me for not doing the research enough up front. Now I need help fixing it.

Thanks,

Tim