tomato-alicat 2.1.0rc1

This package is a part of tomato. It has been made for the automation of alicat devices.

tomato-alicat

tomato driver for alicat flow and pressure controllers.

This driver is using the serial port interface of Alicat devices, see Alicat Serial Primer. This driver is developed by the ConCat lab at TU Berlin.

Installation

Install the package using pip, e.g. pip install tomato-alicat. No further driver-specific configuration is necessary.

Supported functions

Capabilities

• constant_flow for mass flow controllers (model number starts with MCS-)
• constant_pressure for pressure controllers (model number starts with PC-)

Attributes

• setpoint of the controller, for all devices, pint.Quantity(float, self.device_unit)
• temperature of the controller if available, pint.Quantity(float, "celsius")
• valve_close indicating whether the valve is shut, bool

Contributors

• Peter Kraus
• Alexandre Gbocho