MDT693B¶

Class: herosdevices.hardware.thorlabs.mdt69xb.MDT693B

Driver Quality Index: beta

Device driver for the MDT693B 3-Channel, Open-Loop Piezo Controller.

Arguments

Bold arguments are mandatory. For more information on the listed arguments refer to the class documentation: herosdevices.hardware.thorlabs.mdt69xb.MDT693B If parameters appear in this list but not in the class definition, please recursively check the linked base classes for the definition of the parameter.

Argument	Type	Default Value	Description
address	<class ‘str’>		Serial address of the device.
timeout	<class ‘float’>	1.0	timeout for read operations.

Example JSON for BOSS

The following JSON strings can be used to start a HERO device representation of MDT693B using BOSS.

{
    "_id": "my-3channel-piezo-controller",
    "classname": "herosdevices.hardware.thorlabs.MDT693B",
    "active": false,
    "arguments": {
        "address": "/dev/ttyUSB0"
    }
}

^{from examples/thorlabs/mdt69xb.json}

{
    "_id": "my_MDT693B",
    "classname": "herosdevices.hardware.thorlabs.mdt69xb.MDT693B",
    "arguments": {
        "address": "/dev/ttyUSB0",
        "timeout": 1.0
    }
}

^{generated from signature}

Inheritance