Two-Wire Mode; Four-Wire Mode - Keysight Technologies 34921A User Manual

Because user-attached reactive loads and backplane parasitic capacitance
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may result in high in-rush currents, 100
relays from damage and performance degradation. Therefore, you must
consider these resistors when you are designing a measurement. Refer to the
simplified schematics on
Lifetime of relays is severely degraded as current or voltage goes up.
If higher voltage is being switched, limits on source current are recommended.
When the power is off, all channel and Analog Bus relays open.

Two-Wire Mode

You may configure the 34923A as:
– two independent 20-channel 2-wire MUXes. This configuration requires
– one 40-channel, 2-wire MUX. For this configuration, you must use external
In 2-wire mode, you can close no more than 20 channels simultaneously due to
power dissipation. These 20 channels are split 10 to a bank. However, note that
Analog Bus relays count half as much as channel relays in that total. For example,
with one Analog Bus relay closed, you can close up to a maximum of 19 channel
relays. If you try to close more than the allowed number of channels, you will
receive an error message.

Four-Wire Mode

You may configure the 34923A as a 20-channel 4-wire MUX. This configuration
requires neither external wiring nor connection through the Analog Buses.
For 4-wire resistance measurements, the instrument automatically pairs channel
n on Bank 1 (source) with channel n+20 on Bank 2 (sense) to provide these
connections. Four-wire controls occur only when doing 4-wire measurement
operations through the internal DMM, such as MEASure:FRESistance? or
scanning a channel previously configured as 4-wire.
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neither the use of external wiring nor connection through the internal Analog
Buses.
wiring or connect through the internal Analog Buses.
in-rush resistors protect the reed
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