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General Safety Summary Carefully read the following safety precautions to avoid any personal injury or damage to the instrument and any products connected to it. To avoid potential hazards, please use the instrument as specified: Only qualified technicians can carry out maintenance of the product. ...
Keep the shipping container or cushioning material until the contents of the shipment have been completely checked and the instrument has passed both electrical and mechanical tests. The consigner or carrier will be responsible for damages to the instrument resulting from shipment. SIGLENT will not provide free maintenance or replacement.
Preparing for Use Dimensions Figure 1 Front View (unit: mm) Figure 2 Top View (unit: mm) Adjust the supporting legs For benchtop operation, you may want to use the supporting legs. Adjust the supporting feet appropriately to tilt the equipment upwards. Figure 3 adjusting of supporting legs Connect to AC power supply The equipment accepts 100-240 V, 50/60Hz AC power supply.
Front Panel Figure 4 Front panel Table 1 Front panel area description: Items Description 2.4 inch LCD screen. LCD Screen Notes: Avoid touching the LCD screen with sharp objects. 3.5mm female RF ports, source group, usually connect to the other RF Ports A-D instrument such as VNA, SA and so on.
RF connectors Figure 5 Front panel RF connectors There are two groups of RF connectors. A-D are the source group, 1-24 are the extended group. A and B could be connected to one of 1-6 or 13-18 ports, but A and B can’t be connected to the same number port simultaneously.
User Interface Table 3 User interface description: Menu Illustration Function description The first display when instrument starts up. Display the model, serial number, IP address, USB port Status Display status, RF ports link status. Push the knob in this display will enter the first setting menu. Includes 4 sub-menus.
Host computer interface RF channel Connect the device with a USB cable, click Rescan to get the device information and connect. Click the RF connectors A-D first, and then click the RF connectors 1-24 that can be connected to it to complete a pair of gating channel settings.
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Apply to configure the modified network information to the device. Firmware upgrade Download the firmware package from official SIGLENT websites only Connect PC to instrument with USB cable. Run the EasySSM, click Rescan to get the device information and connect ,enter the menu Tool-Upgrade.
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The progress bar will appear on the screen while updating, the instrument will restart automatically if updates succeed or display a pop-up prompt box if updates fail. Note: Please ensure that line power is constant during the upgrade by using an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), Failure to maintain line power may be cause upgrade failure or instrument damage.
Device Information Get Instrument Information (*IDN?) Command Format *IDN? Instruction Returns the information of the connected device. Example *IDN? Return: Siglent,SSM5344A,1001,V1.0 Get Model Name (SHOW:MNAMe?) Command Format SHOW:MNAMe? Instruction Returns the model name of the connected device. Example SHOW:MNAMe? Return: SSM5344A...
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Configure Host (SET:LAN:HOST:NAMe) Command Format SET:LAN:HOST:NAMe <String> Instruction Configures the host name. Example SET:LAN:HOST:NAMe SSM5344A_DEV1 Query Host Name (SHOW:LAN:HOST:NAMe?) Command Format SHOW:LAN:HOST:NAMe? Instruction Returns the name of host. Example SHOW:LAN:HOST:NAMe? Return: SSM5344A_DEV1 DHCP Switch (SET:LAN:DHCP) Command Format SET:LAN:DHCP <Int> Instruction Turns on/off DHCP.
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Query Subnet Mask (SHOW:LAN:SNMask?) Command Format SHOW:LAN:SNMask? Instruction Returns the string of subnet mask. Example SHOW:LAN:SNMask? Return: 255.255.255.0 10. Configure Gateway (SET:LAN:GW) Command Format SET:LAN:GW <String> Instruction Configures gateway IP. Example SET:LAN:GW 192.168.1.1 11. Query Gateway (SHOW:LAN:GW?) Command Format SHOW:LAN:GW? Instruction Returns the string of gateway IP.
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Configure Indicator Lights (SET:COLOR) Command Format SET:COLOR <Char>,<String> Instruction Configures the color of port indicator lights. Ports: A, B, C, D color: BLUE, CYAN, GREEN, RED Example SET:COLOR A,RED Query Port Light Color (GET:COLOR?) Command Format GET:COLOR? <Char> Instruction Returns the color of the required port. Ports: A, B, C, D Example GET:COLOR? A...
Firmware upgrade Follow this procedure to update the instrument firmware: Download the firmware package from official SIGLENT websites only. Extract and copy the .ADS file into the root directory of a USB stick. Insert the USB stick into a USB port, Enter Upgrade , and select the update file, click OK to update the system software.
Product Certification SIGLENT guarantees this product conforms to the national and industrial standards in China as well as the ISO9001: 2008 standard and the ISO14001: 2004 standard. Other international standard conformance certification is in progress. For more Product Information You can obtain the instrument information and installation status of all options through Utility menu, for...
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