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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.
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 VERY HIGH DENSITY MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-611A Page (IV) Page (IV)
Not to be used in safety critical circuits, refer to the Pickering Interfaces’ terms & conditions of sale. This module must not be used for the switching of Mains Circuits. For the switching of voltages up to the module’s full specification, Secondary Circuit power supplies and the Device Under Test must...
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• For suitably equipped products in the event of an emergency press the red “emergency stop” button situated on the front of the unit. VERY HIGH DENSITY MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-611A Page (VIII) 2 AMP 1-POLE UHD MATRIX MODULES 40-575 / 576 / 577 / 578 / 579...
Alternatively, the 40-611A-002 can be supplied as a variant that allow multiple channels to be simultaneously selected. Automatic isolation switching only applies to single channel selection...
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Very High Density MUX – 40-611A Relay Type Mechanical Characteristics The 40-611A is fitted with electro-mechanical relays with palladium- Single slot 3U PXI (CompactPCI card). ruthenium gold covered contacts. A spare relay is built onto the 3D models for all versions in a variety of popular file formats are circuit board to allow easy maintenance with minimum downtime.
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40-611A 91-100-001 Product Customization For further assistance, please contact your local Pickering sales Pickering PXI modules are designed and manufactured on our own office. flexible manufacturing lines, giving complete product control and Mating Connectors & Cabling enabling simple customization to meet very specific requirements.
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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...
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Very High Density MUX – 40-611A Programming Pickering provide kernel, IVI and VISA (NI & Keysight) drivers which are compatible with all Microsoft supported versions of Windows and popular older versions. For a list of all supporting operating systems, please see: pickeringtest.com/os...
Modular products require installation in a suitable PXI/LXI chassis. The module is designed for indoor use only. PREOPERATION CHECKS (UNPACKING) 1. Check the module for transport damage and report any damage immediately to Pickering Interfaces. Do not attempt to install the product if any damage is evident.
For a system comprising more than one chassis, turn ON the last chassis in the system followed by the penultimate, etc, and finally turn ON the external controller or chassis containing the system controller. 9. For Pickering Interfaces modular LXI installation there is no requirement to use any particular power up sequence.
Figure 3.2 - General Soft Front Panel Icon A selector panel will appear, listing all installed Pickering PCI, PXI or LXI switch cards and resistor cards. Click on the card you wish to control, and a graphical control panel is presented allowing operation of the card.
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE PROGRAMMING OPTIONS FOR PICKERING INTERFACES PXI MODULES 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...
MODULE ARCHITECTURE The 40-611A a single bank multiplexer available in 158-channel 1-pole or 79-channel 2-pole formats. Connections are made by operating a channel relay to make a connection between the common terminal and the corresponding channel terminal. The multiplexers’ architecture are shown in the diagrams below:...
Once the drivers are installed the manual “Sys40Prg.pdf” and driver help files which fully describes these functions can be found in the Pickering folder(s) or the Pickering entries on your Start Menu. The card must be opened before use and closed after using the following function calls: Direct I/O Driver - Open with PIL_OpenCards or PIL_OpenSpecifiedCard and close with PIL_CloseCards or PIL_CloseSpecifiedCards respectively.
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A B C D E 40-611A-001 - GENERAL PINOUT CONNECTOR COLUMNS 160-pin Male DIN 41612 Connector (viewed from front of module) Figure 5.1 - High Density 158-Channel 1-Pole MUX Module 40-611A-001: Pinouts VERY HIGH DENSITY MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-611A Page 5.1...
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73.2 74.2 75.2 76.1 77.1 78.1 79.1 76.2 77.2 78.2 79.2 160-pin Male DIN 41612 Connector (viewed from front of module) Figure 5.2 - High Density 79-Channel 2-Pole MUX Module 40-611A-002: Pinouts VERY HIGH DENSITY MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-611A Page 5.2...
PCI configuration, highlighting any potential configuration problems. Specific details of all installed Pickering switch cards are included. All the installed Pickering switch cards should be listed in the “Pilpxi information” section - if one or more cards is missing it may be possible to determine the reason by referring to the PCI configuration dump contained in the report, but interpretation of this information is far from straightforward, and the best course is to contact Pickering support: support@pickeringtest.com, if possible...
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For PXI modules which are supported in one of Pickering Interfaces’ Modular LXI Chassis (such as the 60-102B and 60-103B) no module software update is required. If the module was introduced after the LXI chassis was manufactured the module may not be recognized, in this case the chassis firmware may need upgrading.
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SECTION 7 - MAINTENANCE INFORMATION pickering TABLE 7.1 - High Density MUX Module 40-611A Relay Numbering Switch Function Relay Number 40-611A-001 (158-Ch, 1-Pole) 40-611A-002 (79-Ch, 2-Pole) Channel 1 & Channel 2 Channel 1.1 & Channel 1.2 Channel 3 & Channel 4 Channel 2.1 &...
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SECTION 7 - MAINTENANCE INFORMATION pickering TABLE 7.1 - High Density MUX Module 40-611A Relay Numbering (Continued) Switch Function Relay Number 40-611A-001 (158-Ch, 1-Pole) 40-611A-002 (79-Ch, 2-Pole) Channel 83 & Channel 84 Channel 42.1 & Channel 42.2 RL42 Channel 85 & Channel 86 Channel 43.1 &...
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RL62 RL57 RL61 RL65 RL66 RL71 RL68 RL63 RL67 RL69 RL72 RL77 RL75 RL70 RL74 RL73 RL80 RL81 RL82 RL79 RL78 RL76 Figure 7.1 - High Density MUX Module 40-611A: Relay Locations VERY HIGH DENSITY MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-611A Page 7.4...
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