KA3005P

Command line tool to control power supplies created by Korad, Tenma, RS, Velleman, Stamos, (and other clones) via their serial interface.

Usage

Example (Getting Help):

> ka3005p -h
ka3005p 0.2.2
Controls a KA3005P bench power supply through its serial interface

USAGE:
    ka3005p [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -d, --device <device>    Manually select power supply serial device

SUBCOMMANDS:
    beep           Enable/Disable Beep
    current        Set the current of the ouput or config
    help           Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    interactive    Read commands from stdin and execute them
    list           list possible power supply devices
    load           Loads config settings of specified no
    ocp            Enable/Disable over current protection
    ovp            Enable/Disable over voltage protection
    power          Turns on or off the ouput of the power supply
    save           Saves current pannel settings to specified config
    status         Return status inforation about the power spply
    voltage        Set the voltage of the ouput or config

# Get the current status of the power supply. Note the power supply is automatically detected
> ka3005p status
Voltage: 12.00, Current: 0.304, Channel1: CV, Channel2: CV, Lock: Off, Beep: On, Output: On

> ka3005p power off
> ka3005p status
Voltage: 12.00, Current: 0.305, Channel1: CV, Channel2: CV, Lock: Off, Beep: On, Output: Off

> ka3005p voltage 12.1
> ka3005p status
Voltage: 12.10, Current: 0.303, Channel1: CV, Channel2: CV, Lock: Off, Beep: On, Output: Off

# If you need to manually specify the power supply e.g. If you have multiple plugged in
> ka3005p -d /dev/ttyUSB0 status
Voltage: 12.10, Current: 0.302, Channel1: CV, Channel2: CV, Lock: Off, Beep: On, Output: Off

Installation

1. Grab the latest binaries from the Releases
2. Run the binary!
3. Optionally copy to your bin folder for system wide access

mv ka3005p-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl /usr/bin/ka3005p

Building

Building of the musl versions should be as simple as

git clone git@github.com:Nicoretti/ka3005p.git
cd ka3005p
cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

If you wish to build the gnu versions you will need to download the libudev dependency.

sudo apt install libudev-dev

Known working power supplies

If this tool works for you please add your device to this list:

• Korad KA3005P
• Tenma 72-2540
• RS PRO RS6005p

Interactive Mode

Using the interactive mode you can send continues stream of commands to the power supply. This can be used e.g. to apply an automated voltage ramp.

> python3 ramp.py -f 10 -t 20 -p 10 | ka3005p interactive

For more details check out the ramp.py script in scripts/ramp.py.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.