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News Release from: Pickering Interfaces | Subject: 41-750
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 February 2006
PXI module is battery simulator
Pickering Interfaces is expanding its line of PXI modules with the introduction of the world's first battery simulator in the PXI format.
Pickering Interfaces is expanding its line of PXI modules with the introduction of the world's first battery simulator in the PXI format The new module, the 41-750, is capable of simulating a battery supplying power to handheld and portable electronic devices in manufacturing test
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 41-750 output voltage is fully programmable, and just like a battery can be set to sink current as well as source current.
Providing the capability to sink current ensures that the 41-750 can work with battery chargers operating with the device under test.
A monitor port allows the output voltage and current for the 41-750 to be conveniently measured with any voltage reading DMM, such as the Pickering 41-200.
A single DMM can be used to measure multiple battery simulators thanks to a built in switching system that allows monitor ports to be simply daisy chained together.
The 41-750 is self contained, it draws its power source from the PXI backplane, and occupies just one slot of a 3U PXI chassis.
Multiple devices can be mounted in a single chassis, permitting a PXI test system to simulate both a battery and an attached charger source.
Test systems using PXI RF modules from companies such as Aeroflex can now include a battery simulator in a PXI format for the first time.
Bill Burrows of Aeroflex commented: "The 41-750, when combined with our RF products, enables a fully integrated PXI based solution for mobile phone and RF device testing to be realised".
The 41-750 is an important addition to the range of PXI modules available to users and integrators testing portable electronic devices.
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