Section 4
Basic Operation
Section 4 topics
Overview, page 4-2 Ohms measurements, page 4-18
Ohms calculations, page 4-18
Operation overview, page 4-2 Ohms ranging, page 4-18
Source-measure capabilities, page 4-2 Basic ohms measurement procedure, page 4-18
Compliance limit, page 4-3 Ohms sensing, page 4-19
Setting the compliance limit, page 4-4 Sense selection, page 4-20
Basic circuit configurations, page 4-5 Remote ohms programming, page 4-21
Operation considerations, page 4-7 Power measurements, page 4-22
Warm-up, page 4-7 Power calculations, page 4-22
Auto zero, page 4-7 Basic power measurement procedure, page 4-22
NPLC caching, page 4-7 Remote power programming, page 4-23
Triggering, page 4-9 Contact check measurements, page 4-24
Triggering types, page 4-9 Overview, page 4-24
Measurement triggering, page 4-10 Contact check commands, page 4-24
Front panel triggering, page 4-11 Contact check programming example, page 4-26
Remote triggering, page 4-12
Basic source-measure procedure, page 4-13
Front panel source-measure procedure,
page 4-13
Remote source-measure procedure, page 4-14
Measure only, page 4-16
Sink operation, page 4-17