QPX600D & QPX600DP
Po Dual DC Power Supplies
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Page 1: ...QPX600D QPX600DP PowerFlex Dual DC Power Supplies INSTRUCTION MANUAL...
Page 2: ...1 Manual Operation Independent Mode 13 Manual Operation Link Modes 21 Maintenance 22 Remote Operation 23 Remote Commands QPX600DP only 32 Note The latest revisions of this manual device drivers and so...
Page 3: ...nt displayed when off Output Terminals Rear panel safety terminals accepting 6mm wire diameter 6mm plugs or 8mm spades at 50 Amps max or 4mm plugs at 30 Amps max Sensing Switchable between local and r...
Page 4: ...t voltage and current These signals each have a range of 0 to 10V or 0 to 5V with respect to the shared COM return signal the set range applies to all inputs and outputs Analogue Control Voltage Range...
Page 5: ...spectively RS232 Standard 9 pin D connector Baud rate 9600 USB Standard USB 2 0 hardware connection LAN Auto speed detect 10 100MHz Auto MDIX LXI V1 2 Class C compliant GPIB Conforms with IEEE488 1 an...
Page 6: ...pean Communities EMC Emissions a EN61326 1 2006 Radiated Class A b EN61326 1 2006 Conducted Class A c EN61326 1 2006 Harmonics referring to EN61000 3 2 2006 Immunity EN61326 1 2006 Immunity Table 1 re...
Page 7: ...ions 3m therefore not tested Performance A A signal lines were not tested on the basis that typical use will be with connections 3m for which there is no test requirement Immunity performance with con...
Page 8: ...sion cord without a protective conductor When the instrument is connected to its supply terminals may be live and opening the covers or removal of parts except those to which access can be gained by h...
Page 9: ...power rating information on the equipment or in the Specification WARNING THIS INSTRUMENT MUST BE EARTHED Any interruption of the mains earth conductor inside or outside the instrument will make the...
Page 10: ...ons to the instrument with the OUTPUT off Logic Input each output LOGIC IN is connected directly to the input of an isolating opto coupler there is no series resistor The input is activated when a cur...
Page 11: ...ccepts a standard USB cable The Windows plug and play functions should automatically recognise that the instrument has been connected If the correct driver is not found follow the Windows on screen pr...
Page 12: ...s the default setting at power up Keypad Only the principles of operation are outlined here the setting of individual parameters is given in detail in later sections The paramount consideration in des...
Page 13: ...s the maximum minimum settings in which case they are set to zero For example 59 861V goes to 59 961V goes to 60 000V for a 0 1V jog increment 1 60A goes to 0 60A goes to 0 01A for a 1A jog decrement...
Page 14: ...er range the display will show UNREG unregulated and the actual output voltage will again be less than the set voltage The voltage can be set directly from the numeric keypad press the NUMERIC SET V k...
Page 15: ...current entered with any remaining digits set to zero e g 1 2 3 OK will set 12 30A 1 OK will set 1 00A When OK is pressed the current limit is changed and the display reverts to the standard status m...
Page 16: ...pressed the display shows the product of measured output voltage x measured current in the form nn n VA The V x A value is updated at the same measurement rate as for V and I Pressing ESCAPE cancels...
Page 17: ...shows in the display beside the output status OFF CV CI or UNREG when remote sense is selected Remote sense is turned off by pressing SHIFT SENSE again the message Turn Off Remote Sense OK to confirm...
Page 18: ...he OVP is tripped the display shows the message OVP Press ESC to Reset and the output is turned off Pressing ESCAPE at this point removes the message and the display now shows the preset voltage and c...
Page 19: ...panel key to be used to turn the output off in an emergency i e to override LOGIC IN Note also that having turned the output ON with the key the ON lamp remains lit even when the output is disabled by...
Page 20: ...y scrolling to the appropriate store number in the list using the JOG SET control the selected store is indicated by the square brackets at that location Press OK to recall the set up at the selected...
Page 21: ...y default 41 V CONTROL only selected 42 I CONTROL only selected 50 V CONTROL and I CONTROL scaling 0 to 10 Volts factory default 51 V CONTROL and I CONTROL scaling 0 to 5 Volts 60 LOGIC IN ignored fac...
Page 22: ...V2 must be 1V to enter this mode to permit the ratio to be determined with sufficient accuracy Track V I Show Total V To enter this mode both outputs must be off on entry the set points for V2 I2 and...
Page 23: ...curing screws and lift off the cover Replace the fuse with one of the correct type and refit the cover Note that the main function of the fuse is to make the instrument safe and limit damage in the ev...
Page 24: ...display to the standard status screen If Digital has been selected QPX600DP only pressing OK changes the display to show the current digital interface Address and the message Set Address with Jog Chan...
Page 25: ...wever the effect of this action will only remain until the instrument is addressed again or receives another character from the interface when the remote state will once again be entered RS232 Interfa...
Page 26: ...h time that instrument is subsequently connected the PC software makes use of the unique code embedded in each instrument to link it to the same virtual COM port irrespective of which physical USB por...
Page 27: ...efault configuration is no password The Configure page itself explains how to set the password The password can be up to 15 characters long note that the User Name should be left blank The password wi...
Page 28: ...nds though commands may be sent with a terminator if desired it will be ignored Each command over TCP behaves as if it is terminated with a command terminator ASCII character 0AH line feed GPIB Interf...
Page 29: ...ll operation The instrument is configured by the controller sending a Parallel Poll Configure command PPC followed by a Parallel Poll Enable command PPE The bits in the PPE command are shown below bit...
Page 30: ...is read and cleared using the EER command On power up this register is set to 0 for all interface instances Error messages have the following meaning 0 No error encountered 1 9 Indicates a hardware e...
Page 31: ...ad either by the STB command which will return MSS in bit 6 or by a Serial Poll which will return RQS in bit 6 The Service Request Enable register is set by the SRE nrf command and read by the SRE com...
Page 32: ...0 Query Error Register 0 Parallel Poll Enable Register 0 Registers marked thus are specific to the GPIB section of the instrument and are of limited use via other interfaces The instrument will be in...
Page 33: ...ch is filled under interrupt in a manner transparent to all other instrument operations The queue contains raw un parsed data which is taken by the parser as required Commands and queries are executed...
Page 34: ...off Once entered it is not possible to set V2 or I2 or turn the outputs on and off independently Output 2 will always match output1 Note This mode is useful if the outputs have been wired in parallel...
Page 35: ...Return the set current limit of output n Response is I n nr2 rmt where nr2 is in Amps OVP n Return the voltage trip setting of output n Response is VP n nr2 rmt where nr2 is in Volts OCP n Return the...
Page 36: ...t where nr1 is 1 for low range 0 to 60V and 2 for high range 0 to 80V CONFIG nrf Sets the configuration of the unit to nrf where nrf has the meaning defined in Operating Modes above CONFIG Returns the...
Page 37: ...or the user has disabled the interface from taking control via the web interface IFUNLOCK Release the lock if possible Returns 0 if successful If this command is unsuccessful 1 is returned 200 is pla...
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