The Keysight N6700 Modular Power System Family is a modular DC power platform built from a mainframe chassis populated with interchangeable power, source/measure, and electronic load modules. The N6700 Low-Profile Modular Power System is a 1U-high, multiple-output programmable DC power supply system that lets test-system integrators optimize performance, power, and price to match their test needs, while the N6705C DC Power Analyzer brings the same modules to the R&D bench for sourcing and measuring DC voltage and current into a device under test.

The family addresses several distinct workflows across its module set. The Low-Profile mainframes are positioned for automated test environments and test-system integration. The N6705C DC Power Analyzer is aimed at R&D engineers who need to gain insight into a DUT's power consumption, with sourcing and measurement available from the front panel. The Source/Measure Unit modules address optimizing power consumption and maximizing battery life of battery-powered devices and their components, and the application-specific modules serve mobile-device designers and the testing of battery-powered mobile devices in manufacturing or automated test environments.

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Brand Heritage

Keysight Technologies traces its test-and-measurement heritage to Hewlett-Packard, whose instrument business was spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999. Agilent's electronic measurement division was then established as Keysight Technologies in 2014, the brand under which this product family is offered today.

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The N6700 Modular Power System Family is a single platform spanning a mainframe and a broad set of plug-in modules. Rather than a fixed-function instrument, it lets the user assemble a multiple-output DC power system by combining DC Power, High-Performance, Precision, Source/Measure, application-specific, and electronic load modules in one chassis.

Module capability depends not only on the module's own hardware but also on the mainframe in which it is installed; modules placed in an N6705C DC Power Analyzer gain front-panel scope view, arbitrary waveform generation, and data logging that are not present in the lower-profile N6700C-series mainframes.

Each model in this family is listed below on its own dedicated product page with condition-matched pricing. Select the specific module or mainframe you need, and choose the new listing that fits your requirement and budget.

The modules differ primarily by class and rating. DC Power modules provide general-purpose output at 50 W, 100 W, and 300 W; High-Performance and Precision modules extend ratings to 500 W and add autoranging output and low-range measurement; Source/Measure Units operate in two or four quadrants at 20 W to 80 W; and the application-specific N6783A modules target battery and mobile-communications testing at 18 W to 24 W. The electronic load modules absorb rather than source power, at 100 W and 200 W input ratings.

Voltage and current ratings, measurement resolution, quadrant operation, and double-wide form factor vary from model to model, as do the available relay and measurement options. Consult the comparison table that follows for the exact ratings and capabilities of each model, since each module carries only the functions assigned to it in the selection guide.

Additional differences in specifications beyond the few shown above are not listed here — see each model's full specifications below.

Product Core & Specifications

Important: Output terminal isolation: no output terminal may be more than ±240 VDC from any other terminal or chassis ground.

Important: This is a modular system: the DC power and load modules (N6731B-N6792A) are not standalone instruments and require an N6700C, N6701C, N6702C, or N6705C mainframe (sold separately) to operate.

Important: The Keysight N6791A and N6792A Electronic Load Modules are not supported on the previous Keysight mainframes N6700B, N6701A, N6702A, N6705A, and N6705B.

Important: Arbitrary waveform generation, scope view, and the related N6705 oscilloscope measurement capabilities apply only when the power modules are installed in a Keysight N6705 DC Power Analyzer.

Important: For the N6702C mainframe, an AC mains rated at 100-180 VAC cannot supply enough current to power the mainframe at its full rated power; internal circuits limit the module power to 600 W maximum at that input.

Important: Option 760 limits the output current to 10 A maximum on Models N6742B and N6773A, and Option 760 is not available on Models N6741B, N6751A, N6752A, N6761A, N6762A, and N6781A-N6786A.

Important: Keysight N6783A modules cannot be used in series with other N6783A modules or any other N67xx module.

Important: When sinking power, Model N6784A can operate at the maximum rated output power for only a limited time; when the internal temperature exceeds its safe limit, the output latches off and a protect clear is required to resume operation.

Recommended pairing: these power, source/measure, and load modules are designed to install in the Keysight N6700C-series mainframes or the N6705C DC Power Analyzer covered in this family.

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