User Manual – Rev AJ
California Instruments
4.2.7 WAVEFORMS Menu
[3Pi Controller only]
Figu
The WAVEFORMS menu is ava
ller only. If your unit has a P controller,
menu allows selection of the wa
three-phase mode, the mode is
The selected phase is shown in
wave shape will be applied to th
selected waveform will apply to
If single phase is selected on a 4
so pressing the PHASE button h
ct.
be
GROUP
field displays the currently selected waveform group.
. Only one group can be active at a time
MODE
be useful if you are unsure about
re 4-17: WAVEFORMS Menu
ilable on the 3Pi contro
pressing the WAVE key on the front panel function keypad has no effect. The WAVEFORMS
ve shape for each phase individually or all phases at once. In
determined by the phase coupling.
the top right corner of the display (øA, øB or øC). The selected
at phase. If all phases are selected (phase coupling), the
all three phases.
5MX-3Pi model, the phase coupling is always set to phase A,
as no effe
The following fields are available in the WAVEFORMS menu:
CLIP LEVEL
This parameter determines the amount of total harmonic
distortion of the built-in CLIPPED sine wave waveform. The
range is 0 % through 20 % THD.
Note that changing the distortion level of the CLIPPED sine
wave while the CLIPPED sine wave is used on the output of
one or more phases, forces the output of the AC Source to
dropped momentarily. To avoid this, make sure none of the
phases is using the CLIPPED sine wave function when
changing the clip level.
The group
There are four groups of 50 user-defined waveforms each for a
total of 200 waveforms
however. This field only displays the selected waveform group.
It cannot be used to change the actual group selected. Group
selection must occur at power up and is done from the INITIAL
SETUP 3 screen. See section 4.2.11.3 for details.
The mode field determines the operation mode of the
WAVEFORMS display screen. Available options for this field
are:
PROG:
This mode is used to change the programmed
wave shape function on the selected phase. This is also the
default mode of operation.
VIEW (T):
This mode can be used to display any of the
available user defined waveforms in a time domain display.
Previewing a waveform can
the nature of the waveform that was stored.
100 MX
Series