It is used to provide control over a potentiostat and to keep two experiments from trying to share the same potentiostat.

Usage: The PSTAT class is not actually used in practice. Rather, it is a phantom class that is superseded by the actual class of potentiostat, e.g., PC5.

Each of the instance functions described in this help would actually pertain to a PC5 class, and not a phantom PSTAT class.