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TURBO TEC-03X User Manual
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Table of Contents
About this Manual ................................................................................................................... 4
1. Safety Regulations ............................................................................................................ 6
2. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 7
3. TURBO TEC-03X Components....................................................................................... 8
4. TURBO TEC-03X System ............................................................................................... 8
4.1. System Description ...................................................................................................... 8
Potential Measurement ................................................................................................ 9
Current Injection and Measurement ............................................................................ 10
Current Clamp Mode (CC) .......................................................................................... 10
Voltage Clamp Mode (VC) ......................................................................................... 10
Control Circuit in VC .................................................................................................. 11
Control Modes of VC .................................................................................................. 11
Improvement of the Control Properties ....................................................................... 12
4.2. Description of the Front Panel ..................................................................................... 13
4.3. Description of the Rear Panel ...................................................................................... 21
Grounding .................................................................................................................... 22
TEC-03X-CW.............................................................................................................. 23
5. Headstages ........................................................................................................................ 25
5.1. Potential Headstage ..................................................................................................... 25
Headstage Elements..................................................................................................... 25
5.2. Current Headstage ....................................................................................................... 26
Options ........................................................................................................................ 28
6. Setting up the TEC-03X ................................................................................................... 29
7. Passive Cell Model ........................................................................................................... 30
7.1. Cell Model Description ............................................................................................... 31
7.2. Connections and Operation ......................................................................................... 32
Checking the Configuration with the Cell Model ....................................................... 32
8. Test and Tuning Procedures ............................................................................................. 33
8.1. Current Headstage Bias Current Adjustment .............................................................. 33
8.2. Offset Compensation ................................................................................................... 35
Potential Electrode....................................................................................................... 35
Current Electrode......................................................................................................... 35
8.3. Electrode Resistance Test ............................................................................................ 35
Potential Electrode....................................................................................................... 36
Current Electrode......................................................................................................... 36
8.4. Capacity Compensation ............................................................................................... 36
8.5. Testing Operation Modes ............................................................................................ 37
Current Clamp ............................................................................................................. 37
Voltage Clamp ............................................................................................................. 37
8.6. Tuning the VC mode ................................................................................................... 38
General Considerations ............................................................................................... 38
Tuning Procedure ........................................................................................................ 40
8.7. Installing and Testing a Data Acquisition Board from National Instruments ............. 42
Basic Test of INT-20X and Data Acquisition board. .................................................. 42
Test using a Breakout Box .......................................................................................... 43
Test without a Breakout Box ....................................................................................... 45
9. Positioning of Electrodes.................................................................................................. 46
10. Sample Experiment .......................................................................................................... 47
11. Trouble Shooting .............................................................................................................. 49
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