You haven't mentioned why you want to program your power supply. A power supply isn't rocket science to set up.
What do you want to do that's worth the effort of programming?
Ed
I don't really need to program the power supply. As a hobbyist, I am just interested in wrapping my head around various technologies and familiarizing myself with the features of my equipment.Having said that, one specific reason why I want to access my 6623A via GPIB is to see why I am getting the SRQ annunciator coming on at power up and staying on. According to the manual, the SRQ annunciator is on for the following reasons:
· An Output Fault. If there is a fault on one or more of the output channels and you previously sent the SRQ 1 or
SRQ 3 command (see Service Request Enable/Disable information below), then an SRQ will be generated.
· An Error. If there is an error (see Tables 5-8) and you previously sent the SRQ 2 or SRQ 3 command, (see Service
Request Enable/Disable information below), then the supply will generate a service request.
· Power-on. At power-on, the PON bit of the serial poll register is set but the supply will only generate an SRQ if you
previously sent a PON 1 command.
· Input Line Voltage Dropout.
As far as I can tell, the power supply is working fine on all channels and therefore I suspect that the SRQ annunciator is on because of a previously sent PON 1 command. I want to connect to the 6623A and send a PON 0 command to see if that will cause the SRQ annunciator to turn off. I know it may just be a cosmetic thing, but I like everything to be "normal"