The Chinese manufacturer Ruideng offers a series of general-purpose power supplies, and one of the most popular models is the DPS5005. Fitted with a small aluminum casing, an XT60E power connector, and some banana jacks, it makes a very nice portable power supply that can be powered either from an old laptop power brick or a 6S LiPo battery.

One of the problems of the DPS5005 is the supplied PC software: There is a whopping 230MB download containing a NI VISA based Windows application that just did not do the job for me.

Some time ago, I had a need for a command-line application to control and monitor the power supply, so I wrote a small C# library that can control the DPS5005 via its serial port. I recently rewrote the application and added a GUI, which I am releasing here.

• Scalable GUI display with the most important parameters
• Set voltage and current via GUI
• Set dataset parameters via GUI
• Set various parameters via the command-line

Note: This software is designed to work with the original firmware using the Modbus protocol. The OpenDPS firmware is not compatible with this software, as it does not support the Modbus protocol.

To get the latest version of RidenDPS for Windows, go to the releases folder:

https://github.com/mariusgreuel/ridendps/releases

If you want to modify and build the executable, you will need Visual Studio 2019.

This software is licensed under the GNU GPL-3.0 license.