Lab Equipment
revised
Jan. 31, 2005
The electronics lab has new equipment made by Agilent
Technologies (previously known as Hewlett Packard). The good news is that
this equipment is very powerful and enables the user to do make many
measurements that were difficult or impossible with the old equipment. The
bad news is that with this power comes complexity. Although all of the
equipment is fundamentally simple to use, the challenge is learning how to
navigate the multilevel menus to find the function that must be set a certain
way for the equipment to make the desired measurement. You can access the
manuals for this equipment online by first going to Agilent Technologies. Then Click on Test
and Measurement Equipment and enter the model number of any piece of equipment
you need information on. For reference the model numbers of the equipment
in the lab are:
E3630A, the power supply
34401A, the
digital multimeter
33220A, the function generator
54622A, the
oscilloscope
The complete manuals are very long. All you
really need is the basic information which can be printed as individual
pages. You can also view the catalog pages for these instruments to get a
good overview of the specifications and capabilities.
Interesting application notes and articles can be found
from the home page by:
Click on Test and Measurement
Equipment
Then scroll down to Key Library Information
Then click on
Application Notes & Technical Papers