Power Supply Functional Test Systems

Model 5700 Design Verification/Engineering Characterization Tester

Model 5700 Defense & Avionic Power Supply Test
    • Defense & Avionic application
    • PowerScope high-speed digitizer
    • Configuration flexibility with 3rd-party instruments
    • Common interface panel with high reliability connectors

Application

The Model 5700 is designed to yield comprehensive test data on a power supply with a minimum of programming effort. Such characterization testing is typically done in an engineering design-verification laboratory where the user’s own designs or vendor prototypes are evaluated. This type of extensive testing is also often required for high reliability power supplies used in defense and avionic applications. The Model 5700 is configurable with a wide variety of 3rd-party test instruments to meet special testing requirements.

PowerScope High Speed Digitizer

A high-speed digitizer supplements the core Digital Measurement System on the Model 5700. It provides three 8-bit analog signal digitizing channels with 200 MSPS sample rate and 16 channels of digital signal input. The combination allows high speed digital and analog information to be synchronously captured and displayed. With up to 32 MS/channel memory, the PowerScope can capture fast, non-repetitive transients with relatively long separation from their triggering event. All PowerScope measurements are isolated and differential to minimize ground noise and eliminate the possibility of an electrical short circuit should measurement grounds be inadvertently connected.

Design Verification Test Routines

What makes the PowerScope so powerful is a special suite of test routines that utilize the digitized information generated by the above hardware to determine power supply performance characteristics far beyond that available on typical production testers. More than 20 different measurements can be extracted from each waveform capture and channel-to-channel measurements are all straight forward to execute. An example of this capability is sweep tests where one parameter, typically efficiency, is plotted across the full range of another parameter such as output voltage or power. Such a test can now be programmed and executed in minutes rather than the hours and days required by previous generation test systems.

Model 5700 Power Module Options

Instrument Type
AC Sources
DC Sources
High-Power Loads
Modular DC Loads
Modular DC Supplies
Power
2.7 to36kVA*
5 to 36kW*
6-36kW*
300W
450W
Voltage
to 400V to 500V 120/600V 0.7-120/2.1-450V 20/40/80/450V
Current to 200A to 1400A 7200/1800A 60A 60/30/15/8A
Frequency
500Hz
       
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