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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 2A MULTI-BANKED MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-657 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. 2A MULTI-BANKED MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-657 Page (VIII) 2 AMP 1-POLE UHD MATRIX MODULES 40-575 / 576 / 577 / 578 / 579...
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• Supported by PXI or LXI Chassis • 3 Year Warranty The 40-657 is a high density power multiplexer modules available in a choice of configurations with up to 8 separate multiplexers with 1-pole switching. They are suitable for switching signals to 110VDC/250VAC at 2 Amps, 90W.
Specifications 2A Multi-Banked MUX – 40-657 Relay Type The 40-657 modules are fitted with electro-mechanical power relays, gold clad silver alloy. A spare relay is built onto the circuit AC Resistive board to allow easy maintenance with minimum downtime.
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Product Customization Mating Connectors & Cabling Pickering PXI modules are designed and manufactured on our own For connection accessories for the 40-657 modules please flexible manufacturing lines, giving complete product control and refer to the 90-006D 78-pin D-type Connector Accessories data 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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2A Multi-Banked MUX – 40-657 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.
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 40-657: MULTIPLEXER MODULE The 40-657 Multiplexer Module utilises an effective array of 64 SPST relays. In the default state all relays are open circuit. Energising a particular relay creates a signal path between the common terminals and the corresponding channel terminals.
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering TABLE 4.2 - Multiplexer Module 40-657-001-2/32/1: Sub-units Sub-unit Cross Reference (Switch Path with Relay Energised) 40-657-001-2/32/1 Bank Switch Path Relay Bank Switch Path Relay com1 to 1.1 com2 to 2.1 RL33 com1 to 1.2 com2 to 2.2...
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering TABLE 4.3 - Multiplexer Module 40-657-001-4/16/1: Sub-units Sub-unit Cross Reference (Switch Path with Relay Energised) 40-657-001-4/16/1 Bank Switch Path Relay Bank Switch Path Relay com1 to 1.1 com3 to 3.1 RL33 com1 to 1.2 com3 to 3.2...
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SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering TABLE 4.4 - Multiplexer Module 40-657-001-8/8/1: Sub-units Sub-unit Cross Reference (Switch Path with Relay Energised) 40-657-001-8/8/1 Bank Switch Path Relay Bank Switch Path Relay com1 to 1.1 com5 to 5.1 RL33 com1 to 1.2 com5 to 5.2...
SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering PROGRAMMING THE MODULE 40-657 Here are some simple examples of using the drivers with the 40-657-001-1/64/1 Multiplexer module. Using PILPXI To operate a relay the user could use the simple OpBit command or the WriteSub commands OpBit DWORD sub_unit = 1;...
SECTION 5 - CONNECTOR INFORMATION pickering SECTION 5 - CONNECTOR INFORMATION 1-Bank, 64-Channel MUX Figure 5.1 - Pinout for the 40-657-001-1/64/1 Multiplexer Module (78-pin male D-type connector viewed from front of module) 2A MULTI-BANKED MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-657 Page 5.1...
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1.14 2.31 1.31 2.15 1.15 2.32 1.32 2.16 1.16 2.32 Com2 Com1 2-Bank, 32-Channel MUX Figure 5.2 - Pinout for the 40-657-001-2/32/1 Multiplexer Module (78-pin male D-type connector viewed from front of module) 2A MULTI-BANKED MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-657 Page 5.2...
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3.15 1.15 4.16 2.16 3.16 1.16 Com4 Com2 Com3 Com1 Com4 4.16 4-Bank, 16-Channel MUX Figure 5.3 - Pinout for the 40-657-001-4/16/1 Multiplexer Module (78-pin male D-type connector viewed from front of module) 2A MULTI-BANKED MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-657 Page 5.3...
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Com3 Com7 Com4 Com8 Com7 Com3 Com5 Com1 Com8 Com4 Com6 Com2 8-Bank, 8-Channel MUX Figure 5.4 - Pinout for the 40-657-001-8/8/1 Multiplexer Module (78-pin male D-type connector viewed from front of module) 2A MULTI-BANKED MULTIPLEXER MODULE 40-657 Page 5.4...
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...
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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