HVL Common Code Base

Python common code base to control devices used in Christian Franck’s High Voltage Lab (HVL), D-ITET, ETH

• Free software: GNU General Public License v3

• Documentation:

  • if you’re planning to develop start w/ reading “CONTRIBUTING.rst”, otherwise either

  • read HVL CCB documentation at RTD, or

  • install Sphinx and sphinx_rtd_theme Python packages and locally build docs on Windows in git-bash by running:

    $ ./make.sh docs
    

    from a shell with Make installed by running:

    $ make docs
    

    The target index HTML (“docs/_build/html/index.html”) will open automatically in your Web browser.

Features

Manage experiments with ExperimentManager instance controlling one or more of the following devices:

• a MBW973 SF6 Analyzer / dew point mirror over a serial connection (COM-ports)
• a LabJack (T7-PRO) device using a LabJack LJM Library for communication
• a Schneider Electric ILS2T stepper motor drive over Modbus TCP
• a Elektro-Automatik PSI9000 DC power supply using VISA over TCP for communication
• a Rhode & Schwarz RTO 1024 oscilloscope using VISA interface over TCP::INSTR
• a state-of-the-art HVL in-house Supercube device variants using an OPC UA client

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.