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Edition history:

The manual will be continually revised.

In case of errors or omissions, revision of device functions, as well as technological and software

upgrades, there will be corresponding adjustments and modifications of the manual.

February, 2014............................................................................................................ver1.0

Summary of Contents for ST1778

Page 1: ...SOURCETRONIC Quality electronics for service lab and production 0 20A DC BIAS Source ST1778 User Manual...

Page 2: ...will be continually revised In case of errors or omissions revision of device functions as well as technological and software upgrades there will be corresponding adjustments and modifications of the...

Page 3: ...ription 3 2 2 Rear Panel Description 5 Chapter 3 Basic Operation 6 3 1 Instruction of main interface 6 3 1 1 Diagram and instruction 6 3 1 2 Tab diagram and function instruction 8 3 1 3 Keyboard diagr...

Page 4: ...curacy Test Requirements Within two year since factory calibration Environment temperature 25 5 C Relative Humidity 80 Power supply is regulated by a line voltage regulator Warm up time more than 15 m...

Page 5: ...RCE MG O _ Front panel of host machine POWER DC BIAS 0 20A BIAS CURRENT SOURCE ST1778S SLAVE SINK SOURCE MG ON ON 1 2 3 4 5 O _ Front panel of slave 1 Power Switch When the switch is in the I position...

Page 6: ...n 7 TEST INPUT This port is used for connecting LCR or L meters supplying the test signal and returning the test access from the DUT through AC coupling 8 TEST OUTPUT This port is used for connecting...

Page 7: ...sy chaining slave devices 3 FOOT CONTROL INPUT Foot control input interface 4 DATA PLATE Provides the information of Serial number and name of manufacturer 5 GND Connect the ground lead 6 FUSE SOCKET...

Page 8: ...irst progress bar from the top will display the percentage of each adjustment when the instrument is operating the first progress bar is used with light yellow color When step scanning is off the bar...

Page 9: ...displayed it means the user has deactivated this slave and it is not available for current distribution 7 Virtual display LED displays the status of power supply and running state The bigger LED indic...

Page 10: ...8 3 1 2 Tab diagram and function instruction Tab parameter setting Tab file management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 14 15 16...

Page 11: ...no any menu or options 6 External control button the virtual button is only included in the parameter setting in figure 3 1 2 1 all lines in this page include the buttons and click any of it to get a...

Page 12: ...the information input by user If the box is green it means user has input information if click this zone then user s information will be deleted 16 The zone is virtual key which is used to confirm or...

Page 13: ...11 3 1 3 Keyboard diagram and function 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 10...

Page 14: ...er Edge_D Falling edge trigger Level Level trigger Hold Hold the switch it means output 3 2 2 Stop 1 Use STOP to control the output long press to generate the long pulse beeper When instrument is in o...

Page 15: ...ial port cable from Sourcetronic 4 2 SCPI commands NR1 Integer as 123 NR2 fixed point as 12 3 NR3 floating point as 12 345 LF Command terminator Enter which is 0x0A as a hexadecimal number or 10 in de...

Page 16: ...Sourcetronic mode E g Send_Command DEVI MODE TH set instrument to enter Sourcetronic mode Return command 1778 2 MEMOry sub system command set MEMOry sub system command set can realize the remote opera...

Page 17: ...16 time TIME 0 9 20 addr DWORD number 4 Total 44 File body Description Format Content byte Current setting MULTIPLE ASCII 44 Frequency setting MULTIPLE ASCII 44 Step setting MULTIPLE ASCII 44 Delay s...

Page 18: ...r LF number NR3 0 0 3600000 0 E g Send_Command PARA DELY 100 set the time interval of scanning step as 100ms FREQuence set the frequency unit kHz can inquire the frequency Command PARAmeter FREQuence...

Page 19: ...lock of system Command tree Command REMOte string string LOCKed UnLOCked E g Send_Command REMO ULOC unlock the system 5 STATe sub system command set STATe sub system command set is used to remote inqu...

Page 20: ...data each slave includes 2 bytes When the following bit is 1 it means the state is on or valid each byte should deduct ASCII character 0 then can get the real data Bit1 if charge Bit2 if working Bit3...

Page 21: ...h instrument BEEP set the beeper on or off Command SYSTem BEEP string string OFF ON E g Send_Command SYST BEEP ON turn on the beeper CMDR turn on or off the command return function If turned on when S...

Page 22: ...ied Chinese ENGlish English E g Send_Command SYST LANG ENG change the system language to English 8 WORKing sub system command set WORKing sub system command set is used to control the output of device...