Getting Started - Stanford Research Systems SIM983 Operation And Service Manual

1 Getting Started

In This Chapter
This chapter gives you the necessary information to get started
quickly with your SIM983 Scaling Amplifier.
1.1 Introduction to the Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 2
1.1.1 Front and rear panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 3
1.2 Front-Panel Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 3
1.2.1 Polarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 3
1.2.2 Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 3
1.2.3 O set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 4
1.2.4 Overload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 4
1.3 Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 5
1.4 Power-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 6
1.5 Restoring the Default Configuration . . . . . . . . 1 - 6
1.6 SIM Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 7
1.6.1 SIM interface connector . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 7
1.6.2 Direct interfacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 7
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