Power Suply and Electronic Load Control

One script to rule them all, one script to find the device, and one script to bind them all together

• Tested operating systems: Windows, Linux
• Tested Power Supplies: CSI305DB, PPS2116A, PPS2320A, PPS3E004, CSI3645A(untested), CSI3005P(untested)
• Tested Electronic Loads: Array 3720A, Array 3721A
• Untested Operating Systems: Mac OS X
• Untested Device compatibility: All Array Electronic Loads, All SCPI command devices

Features

• Run from GUI or command line (GUI currently in beta)
• Manual Voltage and Amperage control
• Run predefined csv files with timing and power specs
• Control Device specific functions
• GUI graph for Voltage, Amperage, Power
• Video Streamer View with Volts and Amps

In Development

• Walkthrough to create a csv file with neccesary fields
• Autofinding Devices on COM bus

Documentation

Install Instructions

Windows Executable

You only need to download and run the release binary. No other installation neccesary.

Manual Installation

You first need to have python installed. If you don't, download and install python. Make sure you have the PATH environment variable checked at the beginning of the installation. Once you have that instaleld, download the zipped repo, which is our program. Once you have the repo, unzip the repo to a folder and run from your OS terminal while inside the repo directory, pip install -r requirements.txt to install the dependencies. Once finish you can run the main.py. (FYI, log file is about 1KB per second)

Program Usage

• There are two modes.
  • The GUI version is currenttly in beta.
    • To run the GUI version, run python gui.py.
  • The command line version is stable, but only runs on USB devices.
    • To run the command line version, run python cmd.py.

GUI Help

To access the GUI help, run the GUI and select the help menu item.

Command Line Help

When the program first runs, the option for either running auto mode running from a csv file, or manual mode is given.

If you choose Auto Mode, you'll need to have the .csv file copied into the Example CSV folder. Then select from the list, the file number you want to load. The format for each device type csv file is diplayed in the first line of the provided example files.

If you chose Manual Mode, the program will prompt for the input values. Make sure to give full values, such as 0.123, 1, or 1.123. The program very likely will not be able to interpret truncated values such as .123.

Device Additions

If you have a device that isn't listed, you can use the file titled get_device_info.py to get the information for the device, and send that information to jake@circuitspecialists.com and I can guess at the parameters for compatibility.

To add a device yourself, place the device definitions and functions following the current structure as seen in PowerSupplies and ElectronicLoads directories. Then add the import/instantiation into __init__.py file corresponding to the device you just added. Make sure to keep the same function names as all the other devices.