Safety

Familiarize yourself with the safety symbols marked on the analyzer, and read the general safety instructions and the symbol de￿nitions given in the front of this guide before you begin verifying performance of the EMC analyzer.

Before You Start

There are four things you should do before starting a performance veri￿cation test:

Switch the analyzer on and let it warm up in accordance with the temperature stability speci￿cation.

Read \Making a Measurement" in your analyzer user's guide.

After the analyzer has warmed up as speci￿ed, perform the self-calibration procedure documented in \Improving Accuracy With Self-Calibration Routines" in the HP 8590 EM-Series EMC Analyzer User's Guide. The performance of the analyzer is only speci￿ed after the analyzer calibration routines have been run and if the analyzer is autocoupled.

Read the rest of this section before you start any of the tests, and make a copy of the Performance Veri￿cation Test Record described below in \Recording the test results."

Test equipment you will need

Tables 1-6 through 1-9 list the recommended test equipment for the performance tests. Any equipment that meets the critical speci￿cations given in the table can be substituted for the recommended model.

Recording the test results

Performance veri￿cation test records, for each EMC analyzer, are provided in the chapter following the tests.

Each test result is identi￿ed as a TR Entry in the performance tests and on the performance veri￿cation test record. We recommend that you make a copy of the performance veri￿cation test record, record the test results on the copy, and

Calibrating 1-9