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AV3680A

Handheld Cable & Antenna

Tester

Quick Start Guide

THE 41

INSTITUTE OF

CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION

Summary of Contents for AV3680A

Page 1: ...AV3680A Handheld Cable Antenna Tester Quick Start Guide THE 41st INSTITUTE OF CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION...

Page 2: ...cording to the actual situations This requires user to return the product back to the manufacturer and prepay the postage which will be returned together after maintenance Certificate of Quality We en...

Page 3: ...t Panel 4 2 4 Operating interface 6 2 5 Top Interface 6 2 6 Battery 7 Chapter 3 Typical Application 9 3 1 Calibration 9 3 2 Cable Test 11 3 3 Antenna Test 19 3 4 Universal Devices and Parts Test 20 3...

Page 4: ...Cable Antenna Tester contains chapters as follows Ready for Use This Chapter introduces preparations before operation startup panel introduction battery replacement etc of AV3680A Through this chapter...

Page 5: ...mage to the instrument or unnecessary personal injury To prevent damage to the instrument avoid electric shock fire and personal injury Do not open up the instrument without authorization Do not attem...

Page 6: ...daptor 2 Powered by DC power supply Voltage 12V 18V with battery uninstalled 15V 18V with battery installed Current 2A at minimum 3 Powered by built in battery AV3680A can be powered by rechargeable l...

Page 7: ...ument grounded or the casing of connector of testing cable 2 2 Startup and utilization Prior to powering AV3680A please perform power supply instrument inspection following Power Requirements in Secti...

Page 8: ...mode switching between antenna and feeder line measurement and power test setting of date time power saving mode viewing the product serial number and instrument applications version number etc when...

Page 9: ...ibernation and automatic shutdown Figure 2 2 Operating Interface of AV3680A Handheld Cable Antenna Tester 2 5 Top Interface AV3680A top panel is composed of three parts including power interface digit...

Page 10: ...nect a computer PC via a network cable related tools and software then can be operated by PC to perform program control and data transmission to AV3680A 3 Mini USB interface connect an external PC the...

Page 11: ...enna Tester Figure 2 1 Battery Mounting or Replacement In addition for those dead batteries charging time in OFF state is about 4 hours Pull down battery cover Open battery cover Mount Pull out the ba...

Page 12: ...V3680A adopts mechanical calibration method whose calibration process is as follows 1 Press CAL to enter the calibration menu 2 Select Calib Kit menu then choose the matched model of calibration kit f...

Page 13: ...Connect the SHORT to the test port and select the Short menu At this time the screen will automatically prompt SHORT When the Short menu becomes into Short it indicates completion of the short circui...

Page 14: ...urement AV3680A mainly tests RF cable Take the cable with length of 25m radio frequency of 2 1GHz and VSWR of 1 05 as an example this part makes a detailed instruction on test steps of return loss Mea...

Page 15: ...rding to the Section 3 1 in this Chapter calibrate at port 1 of the instrument 6 After the Port 1 is calibrated connect the measured cable to the Tester and link match load to other end of the cable a...

Page 16: ...e 3 10Cable Loss Measurement Connections Now this part takes the cable with length of 25m frequency of 2 1GHz and cable loss of 0 36dB m to introduce the cable loss test steps 1 Press MEAS to enter me...

Page 17: ...en Short Figure 3 12 Cable Loss Test Connection Diagram Cable loss curve of the measured cable can be obtained through above steps The so called average loss refers to average the measured extreme val...

Page 18: ...DTF VSWR As for their difference we will not explain here again for it is similar to the difference between return loss and VSWR We will make a detailed introduction for measurement steps on cable len...

Page 19: ...the unit menu Meter to finish the setting 7 Similar to step 6 set the measurement stop distance Once the test points and frequency are set the current maximal test distance of Tester is determined it...

Page 20: ...Tester 9 Select Velo Factor menu to set velocity factor of DUT as shown in Figure 3 18 Velocity factor which is the transmission speed and light speed of electromagnetic wave in the cable is between 0...

Page 21: ...turned on at this time Select Peak menu to place Marker 1 onto peak value namely fault point in order to read out the location of fault point that is the distance from fault point to measurement port...

Page 22: ...e measurement format of Tester 2 Press FREQ DIST to set instrument frequency measurement range by contrasting with receiving frequency range of the antenna to be received if the frequency range of ant...

Page 23: ...return loss of 10dB attenuation as an example with operations as follows 1 Press MEAS to choose Return Loss as the measurement format of Tester 2 Press FREQ DIST to set measurement range of Tester acc...

Page 24: ...everal test formats this part will make a brief introduction on some common skills used in the measurement process 1 Amplitude AV3680A provides three ways for amplitude adjustment First through the to...

Page 25: ...ct is qualified or not If the limit line is red DUT is disqualified if the limit line is green DUT is qualified What s more it can avoid repetitive edit by saving recalling the limit line Limit line i...

Page 26: ...led steps for setting velocity factor and cable loss in DTF test To make it easier to test and set parameters AV3680A offers a series of common cable models for user s recall Users can directly use Ca...

Page 27: ...l as transmission speed of electromagnetic wave in the cable to be measured The smaller the sweep span is the longer the measured maximum distance will be The more the sweep points are the longer the...

Page 28: ...lure please contact us for return to factory repair If AV3680A fails to start up and self test please press Reset key which makes AV3680A return to a known state If the self test still fails then it m...

Page 29: ...home maintenance etc will be adopted to solve your problems In addition please contact us in time if instrument failure occurs we will provide you assistance required Return to factory repair is also...

Page 30: ...ency Accuracy Test Frequency MHz Minimum Value Requested MHz Maximum Value Requested MHz 1 0 999 998 1 000 002 100 99 999 800 100 000 200 1000 999 998 000 1 000 002 000 2000 1 999 996 000 2 000 004 00...

Page 31: ...08 AV87231 USB continuous wave power probe 10kHz 18GHz AV3680A 009 AV87232 USB continuous wave power probe 50kHz 26 5GHz AV3680A 010 AV87233 USB continuous wave power probe 50kHz 40GHz AV3680A 011 Sta...

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