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
Tutorial 6
Extending the Voltage Range and Current Range
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Parallel connections
Two or more power supplies being capable of CV/CC
automatic crossover operation can be connected in parallel
to obtain a total output current greater than that available
from one power supply. The total output current is the sum
of the output currents of the individual power supplies. The
output of each power supply can be set separately. The
output voltage controls of one power supply should be set to
the desired output voltage; the other power supply should be
set for a slightly higher output voltage. The supply with the
higher output voltage setting will deliver its constant current
output, and drop its output voltage until it equals the output
of the other supply, and the other supply will remain in
constant voltage operation and only deliver that fraction of
its rated output current which is necessary to fulfill the
total load demand.