In this section:
Topic Page
Overview............................................................................................. 3-2
Operation overview ........................................................................... 3-2
Source-measure capabilities......................................................... 3-2
Compliance limit............................................................................ 3-3
Setting the compliance limit .......................................................... 3-4
Basic circuit configurations............................................................ 3-5
Operation considerations................................................................. 3-5
Warm-up ....................................................................................... 3-5
Auto zero....................................................................................... 3-6
NPLC caching ............................................................................... 3-7
Basic source-measure procedure.................................................... 3-7
Front panel source-measure procedure........................................ 3-7
Remote source-measure procedure ............................................. 3-9
Triggering in local mode................................................................... 3-10
Configuring trigger attributes in local mode .................................. 3-11
Measure only...................................................................................... 3-12
Sink operation and interface ............................................................ 3-13
Ohms measurements........................................................................ 3-13
Ohms calculations......................................................................... 3-13
Ohms ranging................................................................................ 3-13
Basic ohms measurement procedure ........................................... 3-13
Ohms sensing ............................................................................... 3-14
Sense selection............................................................................. 3-15
Remote ohms programming.......................................................... 3-16
Power measurements ....................................................................... 3-17
Power calculations ........................................................................ 3-17
Basic power measurement procedure .......................................... 3-17
Remote power programming......................................................... 3-17
Contact check measurements.......................................................... 3-18
Overview ....................................................................................... 3-18
Contact check commands............................................................. 3-19
Contact check programming example........................................... 3-20
User setup.......................................................................................... 3-20
Saving user setups
........................................................................ 3-20
Recalling a saved setup................................................................ 3-21
To select power-on setup .............................................................. 3-21
Saving user setups from a command interface............................. 3-21
Section 3
Basic Operation