KEPCO BOP 36-12DC Modification Sheet - Manual

The Kepco Models BOP 36-12MC and BOP 36-12DC have been modified from standard Kepco
Models BOP 36-12M and BOP 36-12D, respectively, to be stable handling capacitive loads up
to 10 mF.
INSTRUCTION MANUAL CORRECTIONS:
This modification makes the BOP more suitable for a wide variety of applications such as
solar cell/ solar panel testing, piezoelectric device driving/ testing, capacitor testing, capacitive
transducer driving/testing and powering industrial or lab-type applications for capacitive or
capacitive-resistive loads.
Static specifications representing the unit’s accuracy in Voltage mode are identical with the
standard BOP models, while the ripple and noise specifications are better (approximately 50%
lower) for MC and DC models than standard BOP models.
Specifications listed in Table 1 are for BOP 36-12MC and BOP 36-12DC in Voltage Mode.
In voltage mode the bandwidth of the BOP 36-12MC and DC models is less than the stan-
dard BOP, while the response time is increased. Nonuniformities of the frequency response can
be nearly eliminated by reducing the bandwidth in Voltage mode. Bandwidth can be reduced in
a predictable manner by increasing the internal compensation capacitance by placing an exter-
nal capacitor in parallel across C21 of Assembly A1 (see Table 2 and Figure 1).
TABLE 1. BOP 36-12MC AND BOP 36-12DC SPECIFICATIONS
Bandwidth (DC to f-3dB)
Rise/Fall Time
(2)
Recovery at Step Load
(3)
Resistive Load, Nominal Capacitive Load, 10 µF
(1)
15.2 kHz >20 kHz 24 µ S 70 µ S
NOTES:
(1) Nonuniformities of the frequency response for the standard 10
µF load create a larger 3-dB bandwidth than
for the resistive load.
(2) 10% to 90%, with nominal resistive load.
(3) Load between infinity and nominal resistive load values.
TABLE 2. BANDWIDTH CORRECTION
EXTERNAL CAPACITOR
(ACROSS A1C21, SEE FIGURE 1)
1 nF 2.2 nF 4.7 nF 15 nF 33 nF 47 nF 100 nF
CORRECTED BANDWIDTH 7 kHz 6.5 kHz 5.8 kHz 3 kHz 1.5 kHz 1 kHz 0.5 kHz
NOTE: Listed bandwidth correction values are for Voltage mode, nominal resistive load.
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KEPCO MODEL BOP 36-12MC
KEPCO MODEL BOP 36-12DC
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