Keithley 2601 Read Compliance State with Labview

[JonasLindnerBsc]

Dear Community,

i have got a specific Problem:

How is it possible to read out via Software if the Keithley 2601 is in the compliance state, that limits the sourced Current? I did not find any entry in the manual about that. Is it an specific event or state that could be read out?

[cymrieg]

Yes, look at the measurement event register

[cstorey · Accepted solution]

Yes there is. 

Are you using the LabVIEW driver?  There's a "Source Compliance Querry.vi" included in there.

If not then you need to understand that the Keithley 2600s use a non-SCPI language called TSL.  So you need to learn the TSL commands if you want to get very far. 

Compliance check command is "smuX.source.compliance" (X=a for 2601) which returns TRUE or FALSE (not at compliance).

All the TSL commands for the K2600 are in section 12 of the manual.  The command description is found on p331 of https://doc.xdevs.com/doc/Keithley/2600/2600S-901-01%20%28C%20-%20Jan%202008%29%28Ref%29.pdf

Hope that helps.

Craig

[JonasLindnerBsc]

Perfect! Thank you very much!