Before Maintenance

Prerequisites

This section contains the information needed to do periodic and corrective maintenance on the AWG￿￿￿￿ Arbitrary Waveform Generator￿ Specifically￿ the following subsections are included:

￿Before Maintenance￿+ This subsecton includes general information on preventing damage to internal modules when doing maintenance￿

￿Inspection and Cleaning￿+ Information and procedures for inspecting the AWG￿￿￿￿ and cleaning its external and internal modules￿

￿Removal and Installation Procedures￿+ How to remove defective mod* ules and replace new or repaired modules￿

￿Repackaging￿+ Information on packaging the AWG￿￿￿￿ properly for shipment￿

￿Troubleshooting￿+ Information on isolating failed modules￿ Included are instructions on operating the AWG￿￿￿￿ internal diagnostic routines and troubleshooting flowcharts for fault isolation￿ Most of the flowcharts use the internal diagnostic routines to speed fault isolation to a specific module￿

Before performing any of the procedures in the Maintenance section￿ note the following:

￿ Only trained service technicians should perform these procedures￿

￿ Read the Safety Summary located near the beginning of this manual￿

￿ Read the Strategy for Servicing in the frontmatter introduction￿

￿ Read section ￿￿ Operating Information￿

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