Hello, everybody. My name is John Kenny, and I'm the technology manager for Keysight Power
and Energy Division. I'm here today to talk to you about the new E36100 family of power
supplies. And what's really neat about them is they're quite small. As you can see, this
is a typical power supply that we've had in the past, and this is our new power supply
that's the smallest we've ever made. It sits tiny on your bench, but it's chock full of
capabilities and features that you need. I'm going to describe to you a little bit about
those capabilities and give you an idea of what you can look forward to with this product.
And it's really one of our newest family members that offers capabilities that we've never
had before in a bench power supply. For example, it uses new OLED technology for the display.
It has LAN and USB built in, and it's really, really easy to use. And that's important in
a power supply that could damage your product very easily. So let's show you a little bit
about what it can do. To start off with, I mentioned the OLED display. OLED is the latest
technology. It's available in some smart phones and other things. It gives you great viewing
angles, which are really important, because quite often, you put your power supply far
away on the side of your bench, so you can have your scope or your spectrum analyzer
in the center. And that allows you to keep an eye on what that power supply is doing,
so if the device is drawing too much current, you can shut things down in an orderly fashion.
The OLED also has great contrast, which means it's easy to read from far away, which is
a great benefit, as well. The OLED is only one of the many features. The other one I
wanted to talk about that's a highlight for us and a first in a bench power supply is
USB and LAN capability. That's been the most requested feature for our bench power supplies
to make them easier to use in automated applications on the bench, and we've implemented a full-featured
USB and LAN. It's LXI LAN with a full web UI. USB is full capability, so you can control
everything you want to control on your bench very quickly. Now, let's get to the actual
power supply itself. It's very low noise. It's a linear technology using a pre-regulator
to get the small size. So as you can see, the size is very small, and if you could hear
how quiet it is, it's also very, very quiet, which is important for a bench product. You've
got the ability to control the voltage and current, and you can see both the voltage
and current measurements and the settings at the same time. On the older products, you
couldn't do that. We didn't have the resolution on the display. It's also very easy to set
up voltage and current very precisely. You can control how fast the knob changes the
output. You can either have it change it quickly or just by pressing the button, you can move
the cursor to any digit you want, and you can get very fine control. So it allows you
to adjust if you want to be precise or if you want to move fast. And that's true for
both voltage and current at the same time. So when you can toggle between voltage and
current displays and setting and modulate the settings very quickly. So that's an important
feature for fine-tuning what you want to get out of the output. But that's also backed
up by very good accuracy. We have some of the best accuracy specs of any power supply
on the bench, great current measurement. In fact, we've added for the first time, an ultra
low-range current measurement to measure standby currents. Standby currents are really important
for bench power supplies to measure battery-powered devices. Battery-powered devices often go
into sleep mode and draw a very low, single-digit mic ramp currents, and we can measure those
very accurately in this product. And we do that without creating any glitches on the
output as it switches in and out. We don't oscillate... any of those kinds of problems
that many other products have trying to measure low currents, if they even have the feature.
And in this small size, it's a remarkable capability to include. So, the other things
I wanted to talk about here, as well, is it's got a very easy-to-use user interface, and
the reason I say that is that the older products that use LED displays and vacuum fluorescent
displays cannot display graphics or text very easily. But as you can see here, we can very
easily show you full text-based menus that are very easy to traverse and change your
settings. So, for example, you can go in and change your IO configuration. So here's your
LAN configuration. You want to change the IP address, you can very quickly make some
changes on it, and see the full IP address. Some of the other power supplies we've seen
that have LAN built in require you to do awkward things with the seven segment displays, which
make it very difficult to know that you have it correct. So that's a real benefit for setting
this thing up on the LAN, which can be complicated. USB, of course, is much simpler, and you plug
it in, the PC recognizes it, and it works. So it's also very seamless in that respect.
So in summary, we have a really great set of features here that allow you to use this
product easily on your bench, it doesn't take up a lot of real estate on the bench, it's
easy to read from far away, it's very precise, it's quiet, it's very easy to use, and it
connects using modern IO that you want to have so you can power forward with the E36100
family of products.