Rear-Panel Output Mating Connector; Two-Wire Local Sense Connection - Keithley 2280 Series Reference Manual

Series 2280 Precision DC Power Supply Reference Manual

Rear-panel output mating connector

Available connections on the rear output mating connector include the output high (+), output low (-),
sense high (+), and sense low (-) terminals. The rear output terminals accept wire sizes from AWG 20
to AWG 12.

Two-wire local sense connection

You can connect a device to the instrument in a two-wire sense connection as shown in the following
figure.
If you use a two-wire sense connection, you can use the offset function of Series 2280 to cancel out
the wire resistance. For details, refer to
077085503 / March 2019
Figure 24: Two-wire connection
Relative offset (on page 4-12).
Section 2: General operation
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