Compliance Limit; Maximum Compliance; Overview - Keithley 2601 Reference Manual

Section 8: Source-Measure Concepts

Overview

The documentation in this section provides detailed information on source-measure concepts and
includes the following information:
•

"Compliance limit"

• "Sweep waveforms"
• "Overheating protection"
• "Operating boundaries"
• "Basic circuit configurations"
• "Guard"
• "Pulse concepts"
Compliance limit
When sourcing voltage, the Keithley Instruments Series 2600 System SourceMeter
limit current. Conversely, when sourcing current, the SourceMeter can be set to limit voltage. The
SourceMeter output will not exceed the compliance limit, except for the condition described in
"Compliance limit"

Maximum compliance

The maximum compliance values for the source ranges are summarized in
Table 8-1
Maximum compliance limits
Model 2601/2602
Source
range
100mV
1V
6V
40V
100nA
1µA
10µA
100µA
1mA
10mA
100mA
1A
3A
8-2
in Section 4.
Model 2611/2612
Maximum
compliance Source
value range
3A
3A
3A
1A
40V
40V
40V
40V
40V
40V
40V
40V
6V
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Maximum
compliance
value
200mV 1.5A
2V 1.5A
20V 1.5A
200V 100mA
100nA 200V
1µA 200V
10µA 200V
100µA 200V
1mA 200V
10mA 200V
100mA 200V
1A 20V
1.5A 20V
Section Topics
Table 8-1.
Model 2635/2636
Maximum
Source compliance
range value
200mV 1.5A
2V 1.5A
20V 1.5A
1
200V 100mA
100pA 200V
1nA 200V
10nA 200V
100nA 200V
1µA 200V
10µA 200V
100µA 200V
1mA 200V
10mA 200V
100mA 200V
1A 20V
1.5A 20V
2600S-901-01 Rev. C / January 2008
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