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Keithley DMM6500 Scanner Card - first impressions

Jan Cumps
Keithley DMM6500 Scanner Card - first impressions

I road tested the  Keithley Bench Digital Multimeter DMM6500. I recently purchased a 2000-SCAN 10 channel scanner card. This is my fist little test after receiving it.

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I bought a 2nd hand card. 250€ on eBay. It's the relay version (there's also a solid-state version).
It can switch 10 2-wire inputs. For low resistance measurements, you can make 5 4-wire measurements. 

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At the top of the post, you see the front side with the lid closed. Here is the same view with that lid open.

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This is the unspectacular underside:

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Wiring it up

I've wired channel 1 and 6 up. So that I can do 2 2-wire measurements or one 4-wire one.

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Then plugged the card into the DMM dock:

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I connected the 2 channels to a power supply. Channel 1 to a 1V dc output. Channel 2 to 1.5V dc.

Specs

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Setting up a simple scan

I defined a DC Volt scan for both, taking 1 sample on each channel

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Then I used the Channel App, and ran the scan:

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Simple start, but it worked as expected.

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  • in reply to DAB

    I have one real goal: be able to automate analog design specification / validation / testing. In particular my own designs.

    There are secondary goals: learning, gain niche industry skills, entertainment, lab geek factor.
    And being able to see how a good company like Keithley solves an engineering problem like: how do we measure many things fast at an affordable investment.