DC Source Helps Designers Test Battery-Powered Products

With the ongoing development of electronic products with increasingly finicky power appetites, the demands placed on power sources for testing these products has also increased substantially. To help meet these demands, but especially those encountered by OEMs having to test cell phones and other battery-powered products, HP has developed a fast-transient dc source offering a low-priced voltage transient response capability.Delivering 5A peak and 15V in a compact, half-rack package, the HP 66111A includes two user-programmable compensation ranges to ensure stable power sourcing over a wide variety of wireless product input capacitance and load-lead configurations. The source also boasts of excellent voltage transient response to help maximize test system throughput by minimizing device shutdowns due to significant voltage drops in the test wiring. Cycle times are minimized by command processing times of