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rammable Power Supplies III
5 USING YOUR PROGRAMMABLE POWER SUPPLY . . . . . . . . 5-1
5.1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
5.2 LOCAL OPERATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
5.3 REMOTE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
5.4 OPERATING FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
5.5 HOW TO USE THE OPERATING FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
5.5.1 Output channel characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
5.5.2 Local and remote sensin
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
5.5.3 Constant volta
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e or constant current source. . . . . . 5-13
5.5.4 Store/recall function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
5.5.5 Step functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
5.6 ADVANCED USE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
5.6.1 Parallel connection of output channels . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
5.6.2 Serial connection of output channels. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32
5.6.3 Parallel connection of loads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35
5.6.4 Tips for Remote Sensin
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Applications. . . . . . . . . . . 5-36