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Performance AC Power Source (375VA/300V/3.25A)
Keysight Technologies AC power source/analyzers provide a complete AC test solution. As AC sources, they combine the capabilities of a power amplifier and an arbitrary waveform generator. This allows you to simulate normal waveforms and many types of distorted power waveforms. The built-in power analyzer combines the capabilities of a multimeter, oscilloscope, harmonic analyzer, and power analyzer. These instruments may also be used to produce DC power, either alone or as a DC offset to an AC waveform.
Since your product will have to operate in the real world of unpredictable AC power, you need to design and verify its correct operation under a wide range of AC power inputs. Brownouts, dropouts, sags, and other irregularities are not unusual in many communities today. Keysight AC power source/analyzers have the features needed to easily accomplish this test goal either in an R&D environment or on the manufacturing test floor. If you plan to sell your products in a worldwide market, you will also need to test them at the line voltages and frequencies for which they will eventually operate. There is also additional testing needed to meet regulatory requirements for sale in some countries.
Keysight AC power source/analyzers offer a complete solution for AC power testing, helping you to simplify this important task. These instruments combine the features of a power amplifier and arbitrary waveform generator to give you the ability to do all of the tests that you need. There are many standard preprogrammed waveforms, or you can use the transient generation system to simulate sophisticated and repeatable AC line disturbances. DC power can also be generated, either as a DC offset or as a pure DC signal.
Powerful Built-in Measurement Capabilities
Keysight AC power source/analyzers have extensive 16-bit precision measurement capabilities which would normally require several complex measurement instruments, including a DMM (digital multimeter), oscilloscope, power analyzer, and harmonic analyzer. The precision measurements include:
LXI-LAN, USB and GPIB I/O Connectivity
Keysight 6800C Series AC power source/analyzers come standard with LXI-LAN, USB, and GPIB IO connectivity, allowing convenient setup and easy communication to the PC controller and other instruments.
Test Suite for Avionics Equipment
Keysight AC power source/analyzers are well suited for testing equipment intended for use in the avionics industry which operates at nominally 400 Hz. One of the special requirements that many manufacturers in this industry must concern themselves with is testing to meet RTCA DO-160 standards, which involve both AC and DC immunity tests.
Extensive Protection to Prevent Load Damage
In addition to overcurrent, overvoltage, overpower, and overtemperature protection, the 6800C Series offers output disconnect relays and remote inhibit capability (quickly disabling the output of the AC power source/analyzers via a TTL signal) to protect the device under test.
Dual Power Analyzer - Option 020
The powerful built-in power analyzer in Keysight AC power source/analyzers provides everything that you need to make AC measurements at the AC input to your DUT. For many test scenarios, this is the extent of the AC analysis required. Some test scenarios, however, require AC measurements to be made at both the AC input and the AC output of the DUT. Option 020 provides an additional power analyzer, complete with a precision current shunt, which can be connected anywhere you need it. This second analyzer can even be used for tests where the AC power source/analyzer is not providing power, thus expanding the usefulness of this instrument to many more test configurations. The additional analyzer is equivalent in specifications and capabilities to the standard analyzer.
Using the dual power analyzer option instead of an additional power analyzer instrument externally is more than just convenient. Measurements on all four measurement channels (AC source output voltage and current, and dual power analyzer voltage and current inputs) are inherently synchronized with the AC power source/analyzers output waveform. This precision would be difficult to achieve using separate measurement instruments.
Dual power analyzer examples:
Model No
6811C
Condition
New
Manufacturer
Keysight
Frequency
1 kHz
Phase
1
Power (va)
375 VA
Volts
300 V