Keithley Model 6514 System Electrometer#

Keithley Model 6514 System Electrometer 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 Keithley6514

electrometer = Keithley6514(name = "my_electrometer", address = "/dev/ttyACM0")
electrometer.connect()

To execute commands:

electrometer.reset() # reset the device to default conditions
electrometer.set_measure('CURR') # set the device to perform a current measurement
print(electrometer.read_data()) # get the value of the measured current

Commands#

Functions#

  • reset()

  • zcheck_on()

  • zcheck_off()

  • zcorrect()

  • set_zero()

  • set_measure(parameter)

  • read_data()