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Issue 2.2 January 2020

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  • Page 1 60-311 User Manual LXI High Voltage 2-Pole Matrix pickeringtest.com Issue 2.2 January 2020...
  • Page 2 © COPYRIGHT (2020) PICKERING INTERFACES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, translated or stored in any form, or by any means without the written permission of Pickering Interfaces. Technical details contained within this publication are subject to change without notice.
  • Page 3 Pickering Interfaces strives to fulfil all relevant environmental laws and regulations and reduce wastes and releases to the environment. Pickering Interfaces aims to design and operate products in a way that protects the environment and the health and safety of its employees, customers and the public. Pickering Interfaces endeavours to develop and manufacture products that can be produced, distributed, used and recycled, or disposed of, in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.

  • Page 4: Product Safety

    If this product is heavy reference should be made to the safety instructions for provisions of lifting and moving. STATIC SENSITIVE To indicate that static sensitive devices are present and handling precautions should be followed. REED RELAY MODULE 40-110/115/120/125 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page iv Page (IV)

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Troubleshooting ..............6.1 LXI Status Indicators ..........6.1 LAN Reset ..............6.2 Section 7 Maintenance Information ...........7.1 Relay Location Data ..........7.1 60-311 Parts List ............7.9 General Maintenance ..........7.12 Appendix A Fitting Rack Mounting Flanges ........A.1 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page v...
  • Page 6 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page vi...
  • Page 7 I/O signals that may be present. Blanking panels are available to order from Pickering. If the product is not used in this manner for example by using an extender card then additional care must be taken to avoid contact with exposed signals.
  • Page 8 AND USERS SHOULD CONNECT TO THE FRONT PANEL CONNECTORS WITH CONNECTORS OR CABLE ASSEMBLIES THAT ENSURE OPERATORS WILL NOT INADVERTENTLY COME IN CONTACT WITH HIGH VOLTAGES. LXI HIGH VOLTAGE 2-POLE MATRIX 60-310 Page viii LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page viii...

  • Page 9: Technical Specification

    Matrix Expansion • 3 Year Warranty The 60-311 is a 2-pole matrix available with one, two or three separate 75x4 matrices housed in the same chassis. It is capable The 60-311 is designed in accordance with the LXI Standard 1.4...
  • Page 10 The 60-311 may be expanded to larger matrix sizes by using cabling to daisy-chain the Loop-Thru connections. The illustrations below show the three 75x4 matrices of a 60-311-003 interconnected as a single 225x4 matrix using female to female 9-pin D-type cables to link the Y buses. In the same way, the X Loop-Thru connections can be used to interlink the X signals and create a matrix with a wider Y bus.
  • Page 11 LXI 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix – 60-311 Relay Type LAN Interface Compliant to LXI Standard 1.4, the 60-311 has a 1000Base-T The 60-311 is fitted with high quality electro-mechanical relays. Ethernet Interface via a standard RJ-45 connector mounted on the A Spare Relay is built onto the circuit boards to allow easy rear panel with an LCD display showing the unit’s IP address.*...
  • Page 12 SECTION 1 - TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION pickering LXI 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix – 60-311 Product Order Codes Mating Connectors & Cabling For connection accessories for the 60-311 please refer to the LXI Single 75x4 2-Pole HV Matrix 60-311-001 90-005HVD High Voltage 50-pin D-type and...
  • Page 13 We provide a full range of supporting cable and connector solutions for all our switching products—20 connector families with 1200+ products. We offer everything from simple mating connectors to complex cables assemblies and terminal blocks. All assemblies are manufactured by Pickering and are guaranteed to mechanically and electrically mate to our modules. Connectors & Backshells...
  • Page 14 Signal Routing Software Our signal routing software, Switch Path Manager, automatically selects and energizes switch paths through Pickering switching systems. Signal routing is performed by simply defining test system endpoints to be connected together, greatly accelerating Test System software development.
  • Page 15 SECTION 2 - TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION The 60-311 is a 2-pole high voltage matrix available in single, dual or triple 75x4 formats and is constructed using high quality electro-mechanical relays. The chassis contains an embedded processor assembly, bridge card, power supplies and one, two or three matrix cards.
  • Page 16 SECTION 2 - TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK Page 2.2 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 17 INSTALLING THE 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX The 60-311 may be mounted on a desk top or fitted into a standard 19 inch rack (rack mounting flanges are supplied with the device and can be fitted to either side of the front panel as described in Appendix A of this document). When...

  • Page 18: Installation

    SETTING THE IP ADDRESS To use the 60-311 High Voltage Matrix over a LAN connection it should be set up and configured as described in the “LXI Getting Started Guide” document. If the IP address is to be set manually and before connecting to a network, contact your IT department so they can give you the correct settings for: •...

  • Page 19: Soft Front Panel Operation

    SOFT FRONT PANEL OPERATION The 60-311 High Voltage Matrix can be programmed using the Soft Front Panel. This can be run as a Java Applet from the device’s home page. You must have the Java Runtime environment loaded from Sun Microsystems to use this facility.
  • Page 20 SECTION 3 - INSTALLATION pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK Page 3.4 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...

  • Page 21: Programming Guide

    SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE PROGRAMMING OPTIONS FOR PICKERING INTERFACES UNITS For information on the installation and use of drivers and the programming of Pickering’s products in various software environments, please refer to the Software User Manual. This is available as a download from: https://www.pickeringtest.com/support/software-drivers-and-downloads...

  • Page 22: Programming The 60-311

    PROGRAMMING THE 60-311 The 60-311 is a matrix unit which in its basic form has 75 connections on its X axis and 4 on its Y axis, a bank of 75 isolation switches on its X-axis and 4 isolation switches on its Y-axis. The unit can be supplied with one, two or three matrices which are electrically isolated form each other and are controlled by separate programming sub-units.The...
  • Page 23 MIDDLE MATRIX (No. 2) X BUS LOOP-THRU SUB-UNIT 2 X ISOLATION SUB-UNIT 1 75x4 MATRIX LOWER MATRIX (No. 1) X BUS LOOP-THRU Figure 4-1. Triple 75x4 Matrix - Sub-Unit Allocation (NOTE: All Connections are 2-Pole) LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page 4.3...
  • Page 24 The Direct I/O driver is in reality composed of a suite of separate libraries which interact to provide full control of a Pickering unit. In the case of a switch card the communications library picmlx, and the switching library piplx, are needed.
  • Page 25 Switch closures on the matrix are made using the pi40iv_Connect function and released using the pi40iv_ Disconnect function. The following code snippet demonstrates the minimum steps required to operate a switch on a Pickering unit. Firstly a device session is opened on the unit located at 192.168.1.100. Then a switch closure of the matrix point at (x,y) location (12,3) is made then released.
  • Page 26 Soft Front Panel The 60-311 High Voltage Matrix can be programmed using the supplied Soft Front Panel. This can be run as a Java Applet from the devices home page. An example of this is shown in Figure 4.2. For a description of the controls, refer to “Soft Front Panel Operation”...

  • Page 27: Command Line Control

    COMMAND LINE CONTROL OF PICKERING INSTRUMENTS Overview Command line control of the Pickering device range was added in firmware release 2.11. The utility provided was ported to the instrument from the Windows utility PILMon and provides identical functionality. Enabling the Command Line Control Utility Pickering devices do not provide an SSH server in the normal configuration state, the service must be explicitly enabled.
  • Page 28 SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering Step 2 - Enable the SSH server Select the Diagnostics page from the main menu LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page 4.8...
  • Page 29 LAN Reset button located at the rear of the device in the appropriate manner, refer to Section 7 of this manual for details of this process. Disabling security will stop the SSH service. LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page 4.9...
  • Page 30 First start up the SSH client and enter the IP address of the device. The user will be prompted for a login name and password. The username for instrument control is ‘sshuser’, the password is that defined by the user when setting security. LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page 4.10...
  • Page 31 Before attempting to control a card it is important to understand the switch architecture of that card and to know how to address the required switch. Each Pickering switch card is represented as a set of one or more sub-units, each sub-unit containing one or more switches.
  • Page 32 In the case of matrix sub-units, the XC and XO commands are useful, obviating the need for the user to calculate the bit position for a crosspoint in the matrix by allowing a point to be addressed by row and column address. LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page 4.12...
  • Page 33 = UNMASK|MASK an individual output MB <bit_pattern> = set OUTPUT sub-unit mask (to hex bit-pattern) = view sub-unit output mask (as hex bit-pattern) = take control of all Pickering switch cards = release control of all Pickering switch cards VO <bus> <slot> = open card at specified location VC <card>...

  • Page 34: Using The Soft Front Panel

    SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering USING THE SOFT FRONT PANEL LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311 Page 4.14...

  • Page 35: Connections

    HIGH VOLTAGE WARNING: When the 60-311 is connected to a test system, potentially leathal voltages may be present on any front panel connector - un-used connectors must be covered with the caps provided. Page 5.1 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 36 Service Port (for Pickering diagnostics only) IP Address Display Cooling Air Outlet Cooling Air Outlet Power Switch Fuses Mains Inlet Figure 5-2. Rear Panel Connector Layout for the 60-311 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix Page 5.2 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 37 X17.1LT X18.1LT X16.2LT X17.2LT X18.2LT X19.1LT X20.1LT X21.1LT X19.2LT X20.2LT X21.2LT X22.1LT X23.1LT X24.1LT X22.2LT X23.2LT X24.2LT X25.1LT X25.2LT Figure 5.3 - 60-311 X1 to X25 and X1LT to X25LT Loop-Thru Connections Page 5.3 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 38 X42.1LT X43.1LT X41.2LT X42.2LT X43.2LT X44.1LT X45.1LT X46.1LT X44.2LT X45.2LT X46.2LT X47.1LT X48.1LT X49.1LT X47.2LT X48.2LT X49.2LT X50.1LT X50.2LT Figure 5.4 - 60-311 X26 to X50 and X26LT to X50LT Loop-Thru Connections Page 5.4 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 39 X67.1LT X68.1LT X66.2LT X67.2LT X68.2LT X69.1LT X70.1LT X71.1LT X69.2LT X70.2LT X71.2LT X72.1LT X73.1LT X74.1LT X72.2LT X73.2LT X74.2LT X75.1LT X75.2LT Figure 5.5 - 60-311 X51 to X75 and X51LT to X75LT Loop-Thru Connections Page 5.5 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 40 9-pin D-Type Plug - “Y1-4 LT” Pin No. Signal Name Pin No. Signal Name Y1.1LT Y2.1LT Y1.2LT Y2.2LT Y3.1LT Y3.2LT Y4.1LT FP_GND Y4.2LT Figure 5.6 - 60-311 Y1 to Y4 and Y1LT to Y4LT Loop-Thru Connections Page 5.6 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...

  • Page 41: Troubleshooting

    Refer to the Warnings and Cautions at the front of this manual INSTALLATION PROBLEMS The Plug & Play functionality of Pickering switching products generally ensures trouble-free installation. If you do experience any installation problems you should first ensure that all cables are properly connected.

  • Page 42: Lan Reset

    Q All of my device’s lights are on, why don’t I see a green Ready light, even after a few minutes? Your device has a fault, contact your local sales office. Please contact your local Pickering Interfaces sales office for any further support or email: support@pickeringtest.com You can also visit our website for product updates, help and downloadable materials at: http://www.pickeringtest.com...

  • Page 43: Maintenance Information

    RELAY LOOK-UP TABLES 7-1 to help to locate the position of faulty relays, this diagram also shows the location of the spare relay. The 60-311 can be fitted with one, two or three 75x4 2-pole matrix cards, all of which are separate matrices and have the same The following pages provide a cross reference between the signal paths of the product and the physical relays architecture.
  • Page 44 RL71 RL108 RL146 RL183 RL221 RL34 RL72 RL109 RL147 RL184 RL222 RL35 RL73 RL110 RL148 RL185 RL223 RL36 RL74 RL111 RL149 RL186 RL224 RL37 RL75 RL112 RL150 RL187 RL225 RL38 RL113 RL188 Page 7.4 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 45 Isolation 35 — RL373 Isolation 73 — RL261 RL299 RL336 Isolation 36 — RL374 Isolation 74 — RL262 RL300 RL337 Isolation 37 — RL375 Isolation 75 — RL263 RL338 Isolation 38 — Page 7.5 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 46 RL276 RL277 RL278 RL279 RL280 RL286 RL287 RL288 RL289 RL290 RL296 RL297 RL298 RL299 RL300 RL379 Figure 7-1. PCB layout for one 75x4 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix Board with relay positions highlighted Page 7.6 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 47 60-311 CHASSIS PARTS LIST The 60-311 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix chassis contains one, two or three indentical and independent matrix PCBs each having a size of 75x4. As well as the matrix boards, the chassis houses three Power Supplies, Power Distribution Boards, Bridge Board and a Microcontroller assembly.
  • Page 48 SECTION 7 - MAINTENANCE INFORMATION pickering Table 7-2. 60-311 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix Chassis Parts List for the triple 75x4 version Pickering Manufacturer Description Value/Type Part Number Part Number Multi-Rail Power Supply ±12V, +5V, +3.3V C/PS/009 VLT-130-4100 Mains Inlet Connector...
  • Page 49 MATRIX BOARD MIDDLE - 75x4 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX POWER SUPPLY 2 MATRIX BOARD LOWER - 75x4 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX POWER SUPPLY 1 Figure 7-3. 60-311 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix: Chassis Layout for a fully loaded triple 75x4 matrix Page 7.9 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...

  • Page 50: General Maintenance

    It is connected by a ribbon cable to a port on the Microcontroller board. Switch Drivers and Relay Matrix The signal switching for the 60-311 is carried out by one, two or three separate Matrix Boards depending upon the variant of the matrix, which can be single 75x4, dual 75x4 or triple 75x4.
  • Page 51 The speed of the fans is regulated by two Fan Controller boards which are supplied with +12V from Distribution Boards 1 and 2. Page 7.11 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...
  • Page 52 Cooling Cooling (A/PC/619) (A/MS (A/MS Power Connector and /631) /631) Switch (C/CN/1195) With Fuse Drawer (C/CN/1196) 60-311 CHASSIS Mains Power Input Figure 7-4. Internal Wiring For the 60-311 2-Pole High Voltage Matrix Page 7.12 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...

  • Page 53: Fitting Rack Mounting Flanges

    APPENDIX A - FITTING RACK MOUNTING FLANGES Pickering’s devices are supplied with mounting flanges to enable fitting into a standard 19 inch rack. The following procedure describes the attachment of the flanges to the unit’s side extrusions, a No.1 cross head screwdriver will be required.
  • Page 54 APPENDIX A - FITTING RACK FLANGES pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK Page A.2 LXI 2-POLE HIGH VOLTAGE MATRIX 60-311...

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