Switching a Power Supply ON/OFF through LabVIEW/VISA

[upot]

Hello,

I am looking at controlling an Agilent Power Supply through LabVIEW. I have written a standalone VISA code which allows me to do this (find the attached image). This code allows me to make the power supply output a certain voltage and the return string verifies what voltage the supply outputs.

However, I am now looking at getting this power supply to switch off (i.e. output 0 volts) when any of the 5 temperatures I'm reading exceeds a certain value. Could someone tell me how I can go about adding this new piece of information in the code I have or a basic structure of how it's done?

Thanks

[Minions]

Not all supplies support the SCPI protocol.  If you are looking to open the supply from the circuit rather than setting it to 0V, use one of the options below:

:OUTP OFF\n
OUTP OFF\n

some of the older supplies will respond to just

OUT 0\n

[jesicadiaz]

You could try using a for loop with a conditional terminal such as the one on the picture I attached. Best of luck!

[Minions]

You will need to handle how often the temperatures are sampled.  Here is another concept.

Exceeds or Normal Operations