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
6 Tutorial
Output Characteristics
154 E3632A User’s Guide
When the load R
L
is less than R
C
, the output current will
dominate since the voltage will be less than the set voltage.
The power supply is said to be in constant current mode.
The load at point 2 has a relatively low resistance, the
output voltage is less than the voltage setting, the output
current is at the current setting. The supply is in constant
current mode and the voltage setting acts as a voltage limit.
Unregulated state
If the power supply should goes into a mode of operation
that is neither CV or CC, the power supply is unregulated.
In this mode the output is not predictable. The unregulated
condition may be the result of the AC line voltage below the
specifications. The unregulated condition may occur
momentarily. For example when the output is programmed
for a large voltage step, the output capacitor or a large
capacitive load will charge up at the current limit setting.
During the ramp up of the output voltage the power supply
will be in the unregulated mode. During the transition from
CV to CC as when the output is shorted, the unregulated
state may occur briefly during the transition.
Unwanted signals
An ideal power supply has a perfect DC output with no
signals across the terminals or from the terminals to earth
ground. The actual power supply has finite noise across the
output terminals, and a finite current will flow through any
impedance connected from either terminal to the earth
ground or terminals from the earth ground. The first is
called normal mode voltage noise and the second common
mode current noise.