Re: Stanford Research PS310 Power Supply

[Joe Sullivan <sullivan@aps.anl.gov>]

Joe Sullivan wrote:
> James Stevens wrote:
> > I would like to know if anyone in the Epics
> > community has  written a GPIB device driver
> > for the Stanford Research Systems, Inc. Model
> > PS310 high voltage power supply...
> >
> > http://www.teknetelectronics.com/Search.asp?p_ID=15873&pDo=DETAIL
> >
> > Regards--Jim S.
>
> Jim,
>
> There is "unreleased" support for the 300 series in use
> at the APS (XOR 8-ID). They are using the PS350. Let me
> know if you want to try it.
>
> The support is asyn/streams based.
>
> I have found the GPIB interface to these devices a bit flacky and
> required that the GPIB controller be in 'timeout mode' for it to be
> reliable. The result was a very slow (2 times sec) update rate.
> SRS insisted that there is not a know problem with the unit (shrug).
>
>
> Joe
RE: Update rate...2 Hz was a typo...each message takes 300ms, so a full 
update (3
messages)  takes a little short of a second.