Manual/remote controlled (gpib programmable) dc voltage/current calibrator (30 pages)
Summary of Contents for Krohn-Hite 38
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Model 38 Plug-In Filter Card 0.03Hz to 1MHz Low-Pass 0.03Hz to 300kHz High-Pass Operating Manual...
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Ser vice and War ranty Krohn-Hite In stru ments are de signed and man u fac tured in ac cor dance with sound en gi neer ing prac tices and should give long trou ble-free ser vice un der nor mal op er at ing con di tions. If your in -...
Har monic Dis tor tion: –80dB at 1kHz. pass/high- pass fil ter or an am pli fier pro vid ing gains to 70dB in 0.1dB steps. The 38 will ac cept in put sig nals of ±10V DC Sta bil ity (RTI): Typi cally ±2mV/°C.
Section 1 - General Description Model 38 Wide band Noise (RTI, 2MHz BW de tec tor): 200µVrms min. gain; 25µVrms max. gain. DC Sta bil ity (RTI): Typi cally ±10mV/°C. 1.5 GEN ERAL Cros stalk Be tween Chan nels: –85dB be low full scale with in put source <50 ohms.
Model 38 Section 2 - Operation SECTION 2 OPERATION 2.1 IN TRO DUC TION 2.2.5 Out put Gain (Post Fil ter) The Model 3988 is a plug- in fil ter card cov er ing the fre - Up and down GAIN SET con trols [↑] and [↓] in crease or quency range from 0.03Hz (0.003Hz with op tion 002) to...
In tro duc tion the set- up of all five (Model 3905B) or six teen (Model The Model 38 is an 8- pole fil ter which can be ei ther low- 3916B) cards from that mem ory lo ca tion.
2.3.3 Am pli tude Re sponse 2.3.4 Phase Re sponse Each chan nel of the Model 38 can op er ate in ei ther the Phase char ac ter is tics of the Model 38 is shown is Fig ure low- pass or high- pass mode at 48dB/oc tave at tenua tion and 2.2.
1Hz. This will be 2π times the in put of the Model 38 op er at ing in the low- pass mode greater in °/Hz for a cut off of 1 ra dian/sec or –1845°/Hz and with both But ter worth and Bes sel re sponse is shown in Fig - –2211°/Hz re spec tively.
3.1 IN TRO DUC TION Line Ter mi na tion Char ac ter Se quence The Model 38 re mote pro gram ming in ter face ac cepts both AS CII data com mands and IEEE- 488 stan dard com mands...
Model 38 Section 3 - GPIB Programming or F150 De vice When the de vice clear or H150 Clear com mand is sent, the fol- or HZ150 low ing pa rame ters or K0.15 changes re gard less of their or 1.5E2HZ...
PPC state. unit re quires serv ice. Ex am ple: If the Model 38 to be con fig ured is unit #5, and Er ror # De scrip tion we want it to re spond with a “1” when an er ror ex ists: In put gain too high or low.
The Talker Soft ware al lows an IEEE- 488 (GPIB) con trol ler to in ter ro gate the Model 38 and read back over the bus it’s set tings (gain, fre quency, etc.)Four dif fer ent types of data can be sent over the bus: Nor mally pa rame ter in for ma tion is re turned un less an “OS”, “Q”...
Ex am ple 1 – Mi cro soft Quick Ba sic ‘ Mi cro soft (R) Quick Ba sic (tm) pro gram for the Krohn- Hite Model 38‘ ‘ * En ter this pro gram from DOS by typ ing: QB 38 /LQBIB.QLB ‘...
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‘ 3.6.2 Ex am ple 2 – Bor land Turbo C * Bor land Turbo C Ex am ple Pro gram for the Krohn- Hite Model 38 mul ti chan nel fil ter us ing the NI- 488 * Should work with Mi cro soft C also.
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/* GPIBERR is an er ror func tion that is called when a NI- 488 func tion fails. */ void gpiberr(char *msg); char rd[255]; /* read data buffer */ Gpib Dev,Gpib Board; /* de vice han dles */ void main() { printf(“\nSend ing data to the Krohn- Hite model 38...\n”); printf(“\n”);...
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Section 3 - GPIB Programming * As sign a unique iden ti fier (a ‘ha ndle’) to the K-H 38 and store it in the * vari able Gpib Dev. If Gpib Dev is less than zero, call GPIBERR with an er ror * mes sage.
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(Gpib Dev,"333HZ;20IG;20OG;AC;F", 20L); /* the ‘F’ dis plays the fre quency so when*/ if (ib sta & ERR) gpiberr(“ibwrt Er ror”); /* we read the unit we’ll see the freq */ * Read the K-H 38 again like bef ore. ibrd (Gpib Dev,rd,30L);...
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Model 38 Section 3 - GPIB Programming * The EXIT func tion will ter mi nate this pro gram. *======================================================= ========================== void gpiberr(char *msg) { un signed int i; /* Ta ble of ib sta (in ter face board status word) bit po si tions and cor re spond ing mes sages */ static struct { int bit;...
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Section 3 - GPIB Programming Model 38 { EFSO," EFSO <File sys. er ror>\n"}, { EBUS," EBUS <Com mand er ror>\n"}, { ESTB," ESTB <Status byte lost>\n"}, { ESRQ," ESRQ <SRQ stuck on>\n"}, { ETAB," ETAB <Ta ble Over flow>\n"}};...
The fol low ing pro ce dure should be used to ver ify that the Model 38 fil ter is op er at ing within speci fi ca tions. These checks Change the fil ter to low- pass mode, Bes sel type. Ad just the may be used for in com ing ac cep tance and pe ri odic per form- os cil la tor fre quency for –12.59dB;...
With a BNC tee, con nect both the os cil la tor and the AC me - nect it to the model 38’s out put. Set the fil ter to 5kHz. Volt - ter to the fil ter `+’ In put. Set the fil ter to GAIN with the me ter read ing should be 300mV or less.
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