Sapphire Instruments SI-9010A Use and care manual

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Calibration of SI-9010A
1. How to open the case, please follow the steps.
1.1 Remove the battery lid.
1.2 You will see the two screws and loosen them.
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1.3 Use fingers to press the bottom case inward, and pull it backward and upward.
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1.4 Hold the bottom case and pull the upper case backward (to input lines direction).
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1.5 You will see the two metal cases. There is one screw on the PCB. Loosen it, then the whole
metal case can be taken out. There are two wires still connected with the upper case. Leaves
them there.
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2. Explanation of adjustment point. Please refer to Fig. 5.
(1) SW1: Switch for selecting attenuation ratio.
(2) SW2: Power switch.
(3) VR1: Variable resistor for adjusting low frequency CMRR.
(4) VR2: Variable resistor for adjusting offset.
(5) VR3: Variable resistor for adjusting accuracy.
(6) VR4: Variable resistor for adjusting offset.
(7) VC1: Variable capacitor for adjusting square wave compensation.
(8) VC2: Variable capacitor for adjusting square wave compensation.
(9) CON1: Power jack for connecting to 6VDC power adapter.
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3. Adjustment Procedure:
Please connect a 6VDC power adapter to CON1, and turn SW2 on to warm up for 20 minutes.
Then follow the steps below.
3.1 Offset Adjustment:
a. Referring to Fig. 6, connect both input lines together.
b. Connect output BNC connector to a DMM.
c. Put SW1 at 1/100.
d. Adjust VR2 to make output voltage approach to zero as small as possible.
e. Put SW1 at 1/1000.
f. Adjust VR4 to make output voltage approach to zero as small as possible.
g. Repeat “c”to “g”steps until output voltage is always within +-0.1mV at either “e”or “g”
step.
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3.2 Low Frequency CMRR Adjustment
a. Referring to Fig. 7, connect output BNC to an oscilloscope has good grounding.
b. Connect both input lines to a 220/200VAC, 60/50Hz power source.
c. Put SW1 at 1/100.
d. Set the VOLTS/DIV switch on oscilloscope’s panel to 1mV and the TIME/DIV switch to 5ms.
Then a 60/50Hz sinusoid waveform should be displayed on the screen.
e. Adjust VR1 to make the amplitude of displayed waveform as small as possible. Finally the
amplitude should be less than 1.5mV.
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3.3 Square Wave Adjustment
a. Referring to Fig. 8, connect output BNC to the oscilloscope has good grounding.
b. Connect the red input line to a 20Vp-p, 10KHz square wave signal source and the black input
line to ground.
c. Put SW1 at 1/100.
d. Set the VOLTS/DIV switch on oscilloscope’s panel to 0.1V for 1/100 and the TIME/DIV
switch to 20us.
e. Adjust VC1 to make the displayed waveform become as Fig 9(b).
f. Connect the black input line to 20Vp-p, 10KHz square wave signal source and the red input
line to ground.
g. Adjust VC2 to make the displayed waveform become as Fig. 9(b).
Fig. 8
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3.4 Repeat 3.2 and 3.3 adjustment until both adjustments are O.K.
3.5 High Frequency CMRR adjustment
a. Referring to Fig. 10, connect output BNC to the oscilloscope has good grounding.
b. Connect both input lines to a 155Vp-p, 20KHz, sine wave signal source.
c. Put SW1 at 1/100.
d. Set VOLTS/DIV switch on oscilloscope’s panel to 1mV and the TIME/DIV switch to 0.1ms.
e. Adjust VC1 slightly to make the amplitude of displayed waveform as small as possible.
Finally the amplitude should be less than 2mV.
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3.6 Accuracy Adjustment
a. Referring to Fig. 11, connect output BNC to a DMM.
b. Connect the red input line to the positive terminal of a DC voltage source (70VDC) and the
black input line to the negative terminal.
c. Put SW1 at 1/100.
d. Adjust VR4 to make the output voltage equal to 0.7V.
Fig. 11