Physical Setup Chassis is on the bench in the EE shop. powered with a dual channel power supply with +/-18 (+18.1, -18.1) Current draw on positive leg is 200 mA, 100 mA on negative leg. Consistent with test report. Once powered on, All expected lights turn on. Connected DB25 breakout to front of chassis "Preamp Chamber Interface". DCPD A channel: +leg = pin 5, -leg = pin 18, BNC shields both connected to GND = pin 13. (DCPD B channel: +leg = pin 1, -leg = pin 14, BNC shields both connected to GND = pin 13.) Connected DB9 breakout to back of chassis "To AA/ADC Whitened Output" DCPD A channel: +leg = pin 1, - leg = pin 6, BNC shields both connection to GND = pin 5. (DCPD B channel: +leg = pin 2, - leg = pin 7, BNC shields both connection to GND = pin 5.) Remember, 1:10 whitening filter is ON with the Whitening Disable relays OFF. SR785 Setup (by hand, didn't want to waste time figuring out GPIB setup) First, disconnect the SRC OUT from the differential amplifier. Then factory reset the machine. System Preset ENTER Then setup the settings as below. Display Options Display: Live Format: Dual RPM Frequency: OFF Grid: ON Grid Div: 10 Phase Suppress: 0.0e+00 d/dx window (%): 0.5 Display Setup TOP TRACE Measure Group: Swept Sine Measurement: Freq. Resp View: Linear (Magnitude, i.e. not in dB) Units: dB Units: OFF Pk. Units: OFF Phase Units: deg dBm. ref impedance: 50 BOTTOM TRACE Measure Group: Swept Sine Measurement: Freq. Resp View: Phase Units: dB Units: OFF Pk. Units: OFF Phase Units: deg dBm Ref. Impedance: 50 Freq Start: 102.4 kHz Stop: 0.1 Hz Repeat: Single Shot (don't continuously repeat sweep once done) Type: Log (log-spaced frequency vector) Auto Res.: OFF # of points: 200 Source Auto Level Ref: OFF Amplitude: 1.0 V_pk Source Ramp Rate 1 V/sec, but Source Ramping OFF Offset 0.0 V Input Setup Input Source: Analog Input Configs: CH 1 & 2 (Both Channels) Mode: A-B (positive legs into A, negative legs into B) Coupling: DC ('cause AC coupling filter corner is 0.16 Hz) AA filter ON Wt filter OFF Autorange UP ONLY Input Range (for 1.0 V source amplitude, 150 ms / 3 cycle integration): CH1: +2 dBVpk CH2: +22 dBVpk Transducer Params: (all as default; unused in this style of measurement) Tach Input: (all as default; unused in this style of measurement) Playback Config: (all as default; unused in this style of measurement) Auto Offset OFF Average Setup Step / Impulse response of a basic 1:10 zpk filter is 0.1 sec. (there's probably some math that would predict that for me, but I tossed it into matlab and asked it to do it for me.) Adding a 10 kHz pole *shortens* the impulse *time*, but increases the impulse *amplitude*. So, a settle time of order 0.1 seconds is in order. Frequencies higher than 0.1 sec = 10 Hz should use settle time, and below 10 Hz should use cycles (and one cycle should be plenty). ## Given above discussion, increased these params from 2023-01-30 measurements Settle Time = 150 ms (148.44 ms) (up from 100 ms) Settle Cycles = 1 Integration Time = 150 ms (148.44 ms) (up from 50 ms) Integration Cycles = 2 with freq = [0.1 102.4e3] and 200 points, this takes 484 seconds ~= 60 minutes Output Hard Copy Button ASCII Dump Bitmap Printer PC X 8 Bit Bitmap Area Graphs Vector / Plotter PostScript (doesn't matter, unused) Destination Disk File File Start Number 0 Good deal. Starting with A channel, whitening OFF.