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3.2 OPERATION – SETUP AND OCP/OPP TESTS ................................................................................ 3-7
3.2.1 OVERVIEW OF FRONT PANEL OPERATION...................................................................3-7
3.2.2 INITIAL SETUP (LIMIT KEY)..................................................................................................3-7
3.2.3 NORMAL OPERATING MODES .........................................................................................3-11
3.2.4 INITIAL SETTING OF SLM-SERIES DC LOAD MODULES ...........................................3-16
3.2.5 ANALOG PROGRAMMING INPUT.....................................................................................3-16
3.2.6 LOAD COARSE/FINE INCREASE/DECREASE ADJUSTMENT KEY ..........................3-17
3.2.7 I-MONITOR .............................................................................................................................3-18
3.2.8 PROTECTION FEATURES ..................................................................................................3-19
SECTION 4
Applications.............................................................................................................4-1
4.1 LOCAL SENSE CONNECTIONS.......................................................................................................... 4-1
4.2 REMOTE SENSE CONNECTIONS ...................................................................................................... 4-2
4.3 CONSTANT CURRENT (CC) MODE APPLICATION ....................................................................... 4-3
4.3.1 STATIC MODE: ........................................................................................................................4-3
4.3.2 DYNAMIC MODE: ....................................................................................................................4-4
4.4 CONSTANT VOLTAGE (CV) MODE APPLICATION ....................................................................... 4-5
4.5 CONSTANT RESISTANCE (CR) MODE APPLICATION................................................................. 4-6
4.6 CONSTANT POWER (CP) MODE APPLICATION............................................................................ 4-7
4.7 PARALLEL OPERATION ...................................................................................................................... 4-8
SECTION 5
Remote Programming.............................................................................................5-1
5.1 GPIB COMMANDS.................................................................................................................................. 5-1
5.2 RS-232 INTERFACE AND COMMANDS ............................................................................................ 5-1
5.3 GPIB/RS-232C COMMAND LIST ......................................................................................................... 5-2
5.3.1 COMMAND SYNTAX ABBREVIATIONS .............................................................................5-2
5.4 GPIB/RS-232 COMMAND DESCRIPTION ......................................................................................... 5-7
5.4.1 SETTING COMMANDS ..........................................................................................................5-7
5.4.2 QUERY COMMANDS............................................................................................................5-20
APPENDIX A
SLM-SERIES DC LOAD GPIB/RS-232 OPERATING FLOW CHART ...... A
LIST of TABLES
TABLE 1-1 SLM-SERIES DC LOAD MODULE SPECIFICATION .................................................................................1-8
TABLE 3-1 SLM-SERIES DC ELECTRONIC LOAD FACTORY SETTINGS FOR POWER ON ............................3-16
TABLE 3-2 RESOLUTION OF RANGE 1/2 VS COARSE/FINE LOAD CURRENT SETTING KEYS ....................3-18