Measuring The Distance To A Discontinuity - HP 54753A User Manual

Measuring the Distance to a Discontinuity

This section shows how to measure the distance to a capacitive or inductive
discontinuity. To perform the tasks in this section, you need the following:
• 1 good quality SMA cable one meter in length, such as the HP 8120-4948
cable.
• 1 each demo board (54754-66503) supplied with the TDR plug-in.
• 1 SMA short.
• 1 SMA 50 ohm load.
• 1 HP 54754A or HP 54753A TDR Module.
The following procedure shows how to perform a distance measurement.
1 Connect a 1 m SMA cable to channel 1 of the TDR plug-in module.
2 Press the
STORAGE Setup
3
Press the Default setup
4 Press TDR/TDT Setup
5 Select (
1 only on
6 Press the softkey.
Enter
7 Press the Preset TDR/TDT
8 Press the Time base
Measuring the Distance to a Discontinuity
menu key above the display.
softkey.
on the TDR plug-in module.
for the HP 54753A) in the
softkey.
key.
Single-ended TDR Measurements
Stimulus menu.
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