Labview and Keithley 2425 SourceMeter

[MYOUNG]

Hi,

I was wondering if LabView can run test on the Keithley 2425 SourceMeter without me touching the sourcemeter?  Can I change the varibles such as the voltages I sweep as well as the compliance current through LabView? Is the there an option to choose 2 wire or 4 wire sense testing in LabView?  Also I have a PCMCIA-GPIB card and I already have the 2425 communicating with LabTracer 2.0.  I was wondering if LabView can pretty much do the same as LabTracer and more?

Matt Young

ChromaSun

[GerdW]

Hi Matt,

for all things mentioned by you you only have to open the manual of your sourcemeter, there's a whole chapter on commands to program the meter. You simply have to send the right command the the sourcemeter..

Or you search in the instrument driver network (IDN) for some drivers ready to use: IDN and K2425... 

[Dennis_Knutson]

You can change whatever you want and control whatever you want as long as Keithley has provided a command to do it.

Keithly has a driver available for the instrument that you can use in LabVIEW. Go to their web site and search for 2425. It looks like they actually have a couple drivers. I would recomend that you use the native LabVIEW driver and not the IVI driver.

LabVIEW is a full programming and language and what it can and cannot do is going to be mostly up to the programmer.