Can't get Keithley 23xx driver to work

[Akello]

Hello all,

I've looked around the forum and could not find anything related to the 23xx driver.

I have the Keithley up and running with the Sense and Source +/- connected to one another on Output 1 as per my discussion on a Keithley forum (http://forum.keithley.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=11541&p=13513&sid=b362772e0c070d91ede050371577... The laptop running LabVIEW is connected via GPIB to the Keithley instrument which is recognized by the vi.

I was only recently assigned to work with this Keithley and am trying to get through the basics first. My intention was to adjust the voltage via the laptop and I used the Setup Ch1 Source Voltage vi (Keithley 23xx LV 8.0.lvlib:KE23xx 06 -PJ -VS 08 -- Setup Ch1 Source Voltage.vi Front Panel*). With the vi open and recognizing the instrument (GPIB::16:), the only setting I changed was the Chan1 Voltage which I brought to 3.000 and saw no change whatsoever. The Keithley is displaying a voltage of 0.001 which I assume is equivalent to 0.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have the LabVIEW driver and all the peices in place but the Keithley manual has nothing to say on the matter of the LabVIEW driver neither is there any instruction I could find in the driver folder when I unzipped it.

Thank you all,

Yusif  

[smercurio_fc]

Which driver did you install? There are several drivers that start with "23"

[Akello · Accepted solution]

The driver I installed is named Keithley 23xx (1.0.0) LV 8.

I actually made some progress in that the Meas Ch1 Voltage.vi is allowing me to set the channel voltage (and reads what it set, which was somewhat confusing because I thought it would only read) and the Read.vi that I found in the tree is allowing me to read the voltage just fine.

Now I'm trying to figure out why the machine is giving me a current reading in the 1-2A range even when I set it to .5A which is confirmed by a DVM.

Any advice on that would be appreciated although I suppose that's a question more suited for the Keithley forums.

Thanks for the support,

Yusif