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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 PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page (IV) Page (IV)
Not to be used in safety critical circuits, refer to the Pickering Interfaces’ terms & conditions of sale. This card must not be used for the switching of Mains Circuits. For the switching of voltages up to the card’s full specification, Secondary Circuit power supplies and the Device Under Test must be...
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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. PCI REED RELAY CARD 50-110 / 115 / 120 / 125 PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page (VIII) Page (VIII)
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Based upon Established 40-131/132 PXI Switching Technology y Supported by eBIRST ™ y 3 Year Warranty Pickering Interfaces 50-131/132 is a range of low cost, general purpose electro-mechanical relay cards. They are Range Description: capable of switching voltages up to 300 VDC/250 VAC and current up to 2 A.
62.5 VA, 60 W from 30 V PCI Compliance to 220 VDC, 30 W to 300 VDC (resistive load) The 50-131 and 50-132 comply with the PCI Specification 2.0 (issued Feb 2004). Initial Path Resistance - On: <500 mΩ Signalling Environment: 33 MHz, 32-bit Universal Path Resistance - Off: >10...
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Product Customization 50-131/132 93-006-001 Not Required Pickering PCI cards are designed and manufactured on our Spare Relay Kits own flexible manufacturing lines, giving complete product control and enabling simple customization to meet very Kits of replacement relays are available for the majority of specific requirements.
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To learn more, please go to: pickeringrelay.com 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 The VISA driver is also compatible with Real-Time Operating Systems such as LabVIEW RT.
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Three Year Warranty & Guaranteed Long-Term Support All standard products manufactured by Pickering Interfaces are warranted against defective materials and workmanship for a period of three years from the date of delivery to the original purchaser. Extended warranty and service agreements are available for all our modules and systems with various levels to suit your requirements.
Modular products require installation in a suitable chassis. The card is designed for indoor use only. PREOPERATION CHECKS (UNPACKING) 1. Check the card for transport damage and report any damage immediately to Pickering Interfaces. Do not attempt to install the product if any damage is evident.
8. Power-up the host system. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION First install the appropriate Pickering PCI switch card drivers by running the installer program Setup.exe (provided in a compressed zip file), either from the CD-ROM supplied, or by downloading the latest version from our website pickeringtest.com...
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 3 - INSTALLATION pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page 3.4...
SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE PROGRAMMING OPTIONS FOR PICKERING INTERFACES PCI CARDS 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...
CARD ARCHITECTURE - 50-131 The 50-131 is an array of 16 or 26 uncommitted changeover relays. In the default state, all signal paths are between the C terminal and the corresponding B terminal. Energising a particular relay disconnects the B terminal and creates a signal path between the C and A terminals.
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering TABLE 4.1 - Sub-Unit/Bit Usage for 50-131-001/002 50-131-001 Signal Path 50-131-002 Signal Path Sub-Unit (with relay energised) (with relay energised) C1 to A1 C1 to A1 C2 to A2 C2 to A2 C3 to A3...
50-132-002 (32 x SPST) One sub-unit is used to control all the card’s relays as shown in Table 4.2 on the following page. Enabling a particular bit closes the C to A signal path. PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page 4.4...
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C33 to A33 — — C34 to A34 — — C35 to A35 — — C36 to A36 — — C37 to A37 — — C38 to A38 — — C39 to A39 PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page 4.5...
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...
PCB. The tables can be used in the fault finding process and should be used in conjunction with the corresponding PCB layout diagrams to identify the position of faulty relays. Users of eBIRST switching system test tools do not need to use this information to locate faulty relays. PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page 7.1...
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SECTION 7 - MAINTENANCE INFORMATION pickering TABLE 7.1 - SPDT 2A Relay Card 50-131 Relay Numbering Signal Path Signal Path Relay No. Relay No. (with relay energised) (with relay de-energised) 50-131-001 50-131-002 C1 to A1 C1 to B1 C2 to A2...
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C36 to A36 Not Fitted Not Fitted RL36 C37 to A37 Not Fitted Not Fitted RL37 C38 to A38 Not Fitted Not Fitted RL38 C39 to A39 Not Fitted Not Fitted RL39 PCI GENERAL PURPOSE 2A RELAY CARD 50-131/132 Page 7.3...
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