Manson Laboratory Power Supply

Introduction

The following models of Manson lab power supply are supported: “HCS-3102”, “HCS-3014”, “HCS-3204” and “HCS-3202”. Once connected via USB, they are recognized as a virtual serial port and are supported in flowchem via the device type MansonPowerSupply.

As for all flowchem devices, the virtual instrument can be instantiated via a configuration file that generates an openAPI endpoint.

Configuration

Configuration sample showing all possible parameters:

[device.my-power-supply]  # This is the device name
type = "MansonPowerSupply"
port = "COM12"  # This will be /dev/tty* under linux/MacOS

Note

Serial connection parameters Note, further parameters for the serial connections (i.e. those accepted by serial.Serial) such as baudrate, parity, stopbits and bytesize can be specified.

API methods

Once configured, a flowchem MansonPowerSupply object will expose the following commands: