Keithley Model 2231A-30-3 Triple Channel DC Power Supply.#

Keithley Model 2231A-30-3 Triple Channel DC Power Supply produced by Keithley Instruments. Manual of the instrument is available at Tek.

Base class: qtics.instruments.serial_inst.SerialInst.

Example of operations#

To initialize a controller you can execute the following directives on any Python script or notebook:

from qtics import Keithley2231A

power_supply = Keithley2231A(name = "my_power_supply", address = "/dev/ttyACM0")
power_supply.connect()

To execute commands:

power_supply.reset() # reset the device to default conditions
power_supply.channel = 1 # select the channel 1
power_supply.voltage_limit = '3.0' # set a limit to 3.0 V
power_supply.voltage = '1.0' # set 1.0 V

Commands#

Functions#

  • clear()

  • save(memory)

  • load(memory)

  • wait()

Properties#

  • is_completed

  • channel

  • voltage

  • current

  • voltage_limit

  • current_limit