Calibration and Troubleshooting

Offset Calibration

Offset calibration of the power supply provides the best accuracy in low- range current.

To perform offset calibration:

1.After performing gain calibration, set the current to 10% from the nominal.

2.Read the current value on the ammeter display.

3.Type SCPI command with the current value as parameter "data".

For example, you would type :CAL:OUTP:CURR 0.50 if you had an XG 150-5.6 calibrating with the current set point set to 0.56 A and the actual current measured was 0.50A.

After performing offset calibration, it is highly recommended that you repeat gain calibration.

Important: For best results, both calibrations may be repeated several times. To maintain the high current accuracy of the XG series of power supplies, user current calibration should only be done with a high accuracy calibrated shunt resistor of at least 0.025% tolerance.

SCPI Command

[:]CALibration[<channel>]:OUTPut:CURRent{<ammeter reading in amps>}

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Xantrex Technology XG 850 manual CALibrationchannelOUTPutCURRentammeter reading in amps