Hi MarkL,
MX100TP Power Supply covers all my needs. So you've remoted this PS thanks to a computer, but how did you proceed ? I mean by software. Did you use an excel sheet ? Maybe could you show a printscreen ?
I've written a bunch of GPIB utilities in perl and bash that read/write data to instruments, and there's another bash script which does the stepping and outputs to a CSV file. I usually read the CSV file into octave for more computation and/or plotting. The utilities run on linux and are all command-line driven, and they use the linux-gpib driver for all the underlying communication.
I'm sure it's underwhelming given the fancy GUI packages available today, but I've been using it for at least 15 years and unmotivated to change since it works.
The unit came with a CD that has:
IVI Driver
LXI Discovery Tool
National Instruments Driver
TCP Example Program
TTi Firmware Update Utility
USB Driver
(and user manuals in various languages)
These are all windows bits, so I can't vouch for how well they work. But at least supported GUI option(s) are available.
Extra question about terminals : here is the drawing in mm of my terminals, do you think I'll meet troubles with them ?
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These jumpers look ok to me. I measured the binding posts on the unit to be 20mm deep and exactly 4mm in diameter. The metal contact sleeve inside the binding post is recessed about 3.1mm.
It appears that these jumpers are the ones with a contact cage that rotates? If so, I'll add that I haven't had good experiences with them on any equipment since the contact between the cage and shaft can wear and become intermittent. Maybe the ones I had weren't quality enough to last. But after several frustrating events at high currents, I now only use fixed contact banana plugs, specifically the Pomona Model B stacking patch cords.