User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Agilent E3632A DC Power Supply
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Operation and Features
- Overview
- Constant Voltage Operation
- Constant Current Operation
- Storing and Recalling Operating States
- Programming the Overvoltage Protection
- Programming the Overcurrent Protection
- Remote Voltage Sensing
- Disabling the Output
- System-Related Operations
- Remote Interface Configuration
- GPIB Interface Configuration
- RS-232 Interface Configuration
- Calibration
- 3 Remote Interface Reference
- SCPI Command Summary
- Introduction to the SCPI Language
- Simplified Programming Overview
- Using the APPLy Command
- Output Settings and Operation Commands
- Triggering Commands
- System-Related Commands
- Calibration Commands
- RS-232 Interface Commands
- SCPI Status Registers
- What is an event register?
- What is an enable register?
- SCPI status system
- The Questionable Status register
- The Standard Event register
- The Status Byte register
- Using Service Request (SRQ) and Serial POLL
- Using *STB? to read the Status Byte
- Using the Message Available Bit (MAV)
- To interrupt your bus controller using SRQ
- To determine when a command sequence is completed
- Using *OPC to signal when data is in the output buffer
- Status Reporting Commands
- Halting an Output in Progress
- SCPI Conformance Information
- IEEE-488 Conformance Information
- 4 Error Messages
- 5 Application Programs
- 6 Tutorial
- 7 Characteristics and Specifications
3 Remote Interface Reference
Output Settings and Operation Commands
86 E3632A User’s Guide
CURRent:STEP {<numeric value>|DEFault}
Set the step size for current programming with the CURRent
UP and CURRent DOWN commands. See the example as
shown in “Example” on page 86.
To set the step size to the minimum resolution, set the step
size to DEFault. The minimum resolution of the step size is
approximately 0.12 mA. The CURR:STEP? DEF returns the
minimum resolution of your instrument. The immediate
current level increases or decreases by the value of the step
size. For example, the output current will increase or
decrease 10 mA if the step size is 0.01.
This command is useful when you program the power supply
to the allowed minimum resolution. At *RST, the step size is
the value of the minimum resolution.
CURRent:STEP? [DEFault]
This query returns the value of the step size currently
specified. The returned parameter is a numeric value.
DEFault gives the minimum resolution of the step size in
unit of amps.
Example
The following program segments show how to use the CURR
UP or CURR DOWN command to increase or decrease the
output current with the CURR:STEP command.
CURR:STEP 0.01 Set the step size to 0.01 A.
CURR UP Increase the output current.
CURR:STEP 0.02 Set the step size to 0.02 A.
CURR DOWN Decrease the output current.