At the design stage of component development it is vitally important to understand how the component performs under different operating conditions. This might include operation at diverse frequencies, AC drive levels or DC bias currents.
The 3260B Precision Magnetics Analyzer can plot any of the measurement functions, such as inductance (L) or impedance (Z), (including secondary term) against frequency, AC drive level or DC bias current.
Frequency sweeps within the range 20 Hz to 3 MHz can be selected. There is a choice of either linear or logarithmic frequency displays.
3260B is especially suitable for measuring parameters on telecom transformers.
The selected parameter and its secondary value are presented graphically. AC drive levels can be set between 1 mV and 10 V. DC bias current can be set from 1 mA to 1 A internally. Using external 3265B 25 A DC Bias Units bias currents can be set to a maximum of 125 A.
Measure Insertion Loss and Return Loss on telecom transformers
With the dramatic growth of PCs connected to the telephone system for Internet access has come the requirement to measure Insertion Loss (IL) and Return Loss (RL) of line matching transformers.
The 3260B Precision Magnetics Analyzer not only measures IL and RL but the instrument also allows the user to enter the values for terminating resistance or impedance, if complex, and to select a damped network or blocking capacitor if required.
Printed output of test results
Using the parallel Centronics interface the user can directly print all test results for further analysis and archiving.
In addition, via the standard GPIB interface, the instrument can be controlled from a PC and results can be read back for analysis and storage.
Wide frequency range of 20 Hz to 3MHz
0.1% basic accuracy
Internal 1A DC bias current
Up to 125A of DC bias current
Bin Handler Mode (option) sort components in up to 10 bins
Analysis mode - graph measured parameters against Frequency, AC Drive Level & DC Bias Current
Z, L, C, Rac, Ø, Q, D, Rdc & Turns Ratio
Straightforward intuitive operation
Print test results
IEEE 488 GPIB control with LabVIEW™ driver