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
1Getting Started
Introduction
4 E3632A User’s Guide
• Configuring the power supply for remote interfaces
• Enabling or disabling the output
When operated over the remote interface, the power supply
can be both a listener and a talker. Using an external
controller, you can instruct the power supply to set the
output and to send the status data back over the GPIB or
RS- 232 interfaces. Capabilities include the following features:
• Voltage and current programming
• Voltage and current readback
• Present and stored status readback
• Programming syntax error detection
• Complete self- test
The front- panel Vacuum- Fluorescent Display (VFD) includes:
• Displaying actual values of output voltage and current
(meter mode)
• Or displaying the limit values of voltage and current (limit
mode)
• Checking the operating status from the annunciators
• Checking the type of error from the error codes
(messages)
Connections to the power supply’s output and to chassis
ground are made to binding posts on the front panel.
WARNING
Floating the power supply output more than ±60 Vdc from the
chassis presents an electric shock hazard to the operator. Do not
float the outputs more than ±60 Vdc when metal shorting bars
without insulation are used to connect the (+) output to the (+)
sense and the (–) output to the (–) sense terminals.