Demo Guide
Making Resistance Measurement Using B2901A/02A/11A/12A
B2900A Series Precision Source/Measure Unit
Procedure Overview
1. Make a resistance measurement
2. Make an accurate low resistance measurement
Setup-1
1. Connect the yellow banana plug to Ch 1 Low Force terminal.
2. Connect the red banana plug to Ch 1 High Force terminal.
3. Clip the one lead of 1 kΩ Resistor with the black gold-plated
tweezers.
4. Clip the other lead of 1 kΩ Resistor with the red gold-plated
tweezers.
1 kΩ resistor
Red
(11059A)
(11059A)
2
1
Yellow
(11059A)
(11059A)
1. Make a resistance measurement
1-1. Change View mode to Single View
a. Press
repeatedly until Single View for Channel 1 is
shown in the display.
Objective
This demo shows how easily a resistance measurement can
be made with the B2900A Series via easy-to-use Graphical
User Interface.
1-2. Use AUTO measurement operation
a. Rotate
and then press
Resistance measurement operation to AUTO.
Red
b. Press Ch1
Brown
4
Brown
Black
c. Press
Brown
3
Brown
Black
d. Press
e. Press
1-3. Turn off the channel output
a. Press Ch1
to select Resistance measurement operation,
to edit it. Then select
to set
to turn on Channel 1 Output relay.
to perform a single point measurement.
Measurement parameters are
updated whenever Trigger Button is
pressed
to repeat single point measurements periodically.
Measurement parameters are
updated periodically
"Auto" indicator is turned on
to stop making measurements periodically.
"Auto" indicator is turned off
to turn off Channel 1 Output relay.
Required instrument and accessory
1.1 kΩ resistor
Keysight B2901A/02A/11A/12A
1 kΩ resistor
Precision Source/Measure Unit
Setup-2
1. Connect the yellow banana plug to Ch 1 Low Force terminal.
2. Connect the orange banana plug to Ch 1 Low Sense terminal.
3. Connect the red banana plug to Ch 1 High Force terminal.
4. Connect the brown banana plug to Ch 1 High Sense terminal.
5. Clip the one lead of 1 Ω Resistor with red gold-plated flat
tweezers.
6. Clip the other lead of 1 Ω Resistor with black gold-plated
tweezers.
1 Ω resistor
Brown
(11059A)
(11059A)
4
3
Red (11059A)
Orange (11059A)
Black (11059A)
2
1
Yellow (11059A)
2. Make an accurate low resistance measurement
2-1. Reset the instrument
a. Press
,
and then press
display Confirmation dialogue.
Keysight 11059A
Kelvin Probe Set
Red
6
Brown
Black
Black
Silver
Brown
5
to
(1) Press More...
(2) Press System
(3) Press Reset