A look at the new Rohde and Schwarz NGP800 800W system power supply. Teardown and a brief play around.
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Oh yeah, look at this bad boys. Sex on a stick. This is the new NGP 800 series just released in late February and thank you very much your own Schwartz for sending this one in. It was just unannounced, unrequested, but they figured that I didn't have enough good power supplies here in the lab you seen the previous ones I Clearly don't have enough quality power supplies here, so obviously they sent me their brand speaking new one because these were the HMP one given that they've got H in front of them.
of course they're the older hey Meg design ones and of course the one up the top is the newer. that's the Ng E. but this bad boy down here is the new rodent Schwartz in GP 800 In particular, this is the N GP Eight One four. So this is like the top of the line for channel model.
You can actually get a two channel a model apparently and it simply just has these unpopulated. No, you can't put anything else up here because that's actually the events as we'll see to get the air in and look what it must be all touchy-feely because it's You just select the channels here and the back and an output on/off button and that's it. whereas the other ones what they actually took some getting used to there. but what? They're great once you actually get used to.
sort of like the user interface on the things, but yeah, this one should be significantly easier in terms of usability. I suspect even though I haven't powered it up yet, what's a star button turns you into an electronic superstar, so you might think oh well, why have they done this one instead of what's wrong with this one up here? Well, not only is it an older design, but it's a they still sell it all. These are still current models and they're still excellent, but this bad Boy is twice the output voltage that you can get a 64 volt option and twice the current as well. It can go up to 20 amps and also twice the power.
It's got 800 watts total whereas this one up here I only had their previous top of the range around 360 something like this. So this is designed for, you know, serious lab and production test rack integration and things like that. This is a really serious bad boy. Power supply: 800 watts, all independent channels, all remote sensing.
It's got all the bells and whistles about that, remote, comms and everything else. so let's check it out. So basically yep, it's touchy-feely User interface: twice the voltage, twice the current, twice the power capability. Oh let's go.
This is literally their top shelf unit and as I mentioned, we've got the front vents here to suck the air in over the power supply modules as we'll see no vents on the side, but over on this side. We do have some vents, but that's basically for like a transformer ventilation so to speak. the actual power supply modules. There'll be two of them in here like this I suspect.
and so it gets. The majority of the airflow are coming from the Frontier. and of course, if you've got this thing shoved inside Iraq that's what you want. the air coming from. Look at those badass terminals on the back here. All four channels there or like output and remote sense as well for all four channels. Wow, they're absolutely enormous. Two big fans on the back and what's a Kensington lock there? because you know if you've got this in a university lab or something, you don't want the students making it? I Triple E for double awaits not populated bummer.
And of course multiple digital triggers. and it looks like analog signals as well. which you could possibly trigger off or sample. or do whatever.
Because one of the key features of this is apparently it has login on like all the channels. I don't know the sample rate, don't know the bitrate, bit depth, and all that sort of stuff. But anyway, we've got USB Z's and land Z's as well. I Think there might be a wireless option.
Oh, you know we say you're on the Eevblog. don't turn it on. take it apart except not with this cuz that's a Philips and it looks like these aren't Philips Of course they got thread sealers on it. One good thing about Power supply is that you can never have too many of them.
Golden Rule electronics made in Malaysia instead of Germany Geez Well, they're trying to do our compete keysight case. I get all their best stuff made in Malaysia -. whoa it's not void, it's expired Tada percussive maintenance required. Oh I Can smell the quality from here.
Oh this is fantastic. Wow Well I don't know where to start in. this thing isn't this gorgeous. The first thing I noticed when I took it off is that there's an ethernet cable running from the main board at the back here through to the front panel.
That's interesting. So they've got PCB mount ethernet cables on there. Well notice all the big cables coming across here for cable ties on there to hold those in place. All this silicon as well.
Oh wow wow they're beautiful. Oh they just this is not feel a vision but yep you can just tell. and now that PVC rubbish they're fantastic. Of course that's for the rear panel output connectors and that sense lines as well.
The small light cables in there are the sense lines obviously and they've got to come from the front might have to actually unque will tie everything to get this board out anyway. I Was are completely wrong about the layout I Just assumed that there would be board here going the whole length like that to be like two channels and another two channels here. the mains power supply is up the back here. This is interesting in its own right.
We'll take a look at it. and then there's two square boards here. That's one. Well, that's two channels so you can see the heat sinks there.
So these two channels are the like, the factory channels and then these two on its own board. Over here. Identical board of course is the other two channels. And yes, all four. Even though it is a separate board for each two channels, all the channels are actually are completely isolated in their own right. Don't immediately see how the power comes into those. It might be our via little standoffs. So let's just have a look at the mains input side of things here.
Very nice right there. Like that's all properly heat shrunk. The mains power supply is not a separate module. They've integrated it onto this main board here.
These are the main input fuses. Look at this. They've actually fused the active and the neutral as well. Absolutely fantastic.
And then we've got our of course, our inputs, our filtering. We've got a big mob in there. We've got our filtering to ground of course. So X and Y class caps.
and then we've got common mode choke. of course, more extra filtering on the other side. And and it looks like there's another common mode choke in there. Really buggering off, isn't it? It's probable is a power factor corrected Power Supply I Don't know.
Anyway, they say this is like a really efficient power supply of tiny little fan controller down there. two cables so that actually controls both fins, so that'll bugger off over there. but you know this is like integrated on to the main board. It really is quite remarkable because in most designs you want to separate your mains power supply from the rest of your board.
you want to either get another external company to design the power supply and manufacture, then you just bolted in and that's easier and cheaper and all sorts of stuff. But they've integrated absolutely everything onto this board, so it's fantastic. So you can see that they've got ground earth running around the outside here. There's been a huge amount of clearance in there, but I guess it's adequate.
What is that? Five six millimeters? something like that between mains and earth in terms of creepage distance. Anyway, our mains earth looks like it's down there and then put that in a gorgeous big slot with the cable underneath there. So that's really remarkable. So yeah, you can see the earth cable buggering off there under that fan and then it actually goes into there so that that's really built and braces.
Very impressed by that. Oh Aha, that Ethernet cable there. literally an Ethernet extension cable. So there's the Ethernet connected down the bottom there and that just connects it up through to the main board over here.
and that that's all our process stuff is on the front there on the front panel. and curiously, we have a whole bunch of power supply stuff integrated down into the main board here. look at these big current shunt resistors there. Wow.
they're huge. Like we've got a little controller and there. I Can't see the part number, but obviously and with the choke and the diode and the cap and other caps around there, that's obviously you know a switch mode will get a whole bunch of those which is rather interesting and they go up via this blue cable. All of that is a regulator for all of the circuitry on the front panel or the processor stuff by the looks of it. So why you wouldn't have that over on the actual processor board? I Don't know. Did they run out of space? It's A. It's a really interesting decision. Maybe these are all your different rails? Is it? You know your three point three, your one point eight year, one point two, or your core voltages for you various whiz-bang processes that you need these days.
It's just very interesting that you separate those right on the other side of the product. I'd say that just probably didn't have room on the front panel and they thought oh you know, look, we've got our power supply people laying out this anyway. they might as well do all this, you know, the power supply group or something and then that goes over here to this seriously interest in looking custom switch mode. Obviously the power was coming from over here.
You can see it jumping through all the vias. here. It goes all the way up here for always. follow the money.
Then it goes through a fuse into there like that so it's a multi-phase fly back is it? Anyway, current shunt resistor over there. there's an opto and of course do it. Just dawned on me these would be the four separate isolated supplies for our four channels. as in for the control stuff, not the actual power.
It's just for the control circuitry. So I See it now based on the layout. These share a common ground here. you can see there there there and there.
So that is one channel, two channels, a channels and four channels. That makes sense because we have a four channel power supplies four channel isolated converter like relatively low power I would presume the control logic on each individual channel. Well, this is interesting. You know.
I'm having a hard time getting this out here. but the upper two channels here, which is the option of our Channel, three and four here is a on its own little PCB So some of those big beefy red and black cables go into there, but the other one is actually integrated down on the main. PCB down here. Yes, that's integrated down there with the mains.
A power supply. It's all just really fascinating and probably essential system design because they're trying to squeeze like a 4 independent channel 800 watt power supply into a 2 rack unit high thing here. And yeah, they just have to do a lot of unusual design measures to get all this stuff sort of stuff to fit now. I Really would like to show you the mains a power supply, but unfortunately I can't because it's under here and they've got thermal adhesive between the two heat sinks either side here because this adds really not a huge amount of actual thermal performance, but what they're doing there is basically using that as like an air guide to force it under and through the fins just so that there's like, you know, less airflow over the top I guess or less turbulent flow or whatever. That's just one flat part. If you wanted to increase the thermal performance, you would have added like fins on top of here and you know going in this direction of course. So you'd have your various drive transistors on these two heat sinks and and or diodes. There's a big-ass choke under there on its own little single sided PCB down in there.
but that's all I can see. Really sorry unless I get a better angle later on. but here you go. Here's how they're getting the power to the board's over here.
Did give away two large pins here in this surface mount connector but bottom board entry so they got holes the bottom of the board they just come through up into there so that's how they're getting the input power over to each channel. so there's one there and there's another fighting behind the ribbon there and then they've just got some like miscellaneous power as well. I'd love to be able to show you the brand of the caps under there. unfortunately.
Um, nope, not getting that out. Oh hang on I See a budge? We got one there. it is down there. Check it out.
Mod: why I got down very nice and is that a little ceramic cap under some silicon gunk? There looks like it last minute job' and they obviously didn't want to reap in the board. maybe in the next production badge. And of course if you hate your thinking cap on you would have realized Dave How do we get our isolation on all four channels? Don't we need an isolated like supply like an isolated transformer tap? or however it you have an old-school transformer caps in full wave bridge rectifiers? Come on. Anyway, don't we need our isolated input like this? Well, of course, obviously they haven't done that here, right? There's no way that they can get four independent isolated channels here.
So I bet your bottom dollar if we measure the inputs of between two different channels will find that they are shorted. And yep, it's not isolated on the input, it's isolated in the converter itself. So yeah, that's what these bad boys are doing. That's how we get now, isolation on the output.
It's not done at the input side of thing. so all of your stuff down on that logic level connected down in there that it all be are common as well I'd guess. And yes, the output ground. Also with a large high voltage, a ceramic job' going down to mains earth as well.
Once again, that's for suppression. So I undid all those cable ties there and I was able to slide out that plate. Luckily I didn't I could slide it out and don't have to undo these because I'd have to unbolt every single connection if I want to get those out. Anyway, good news is all four channels absolutely identical, so we only need to look at one. All right, let's have a squiz at this bad boy. This is one individual channel. As I said, they'd all be identical. and yes, they are all isolated.
as I said, so you can stack the channels in series or parallel to your heart's content. Anyway, as I said, we've got the input coming. Oh, I Almost certainly this is the input here. So underneath the that's actually not a resistor that's actually a heat shrink PCB a fuse there without soldered end caps, so all individually fused.
Of course, we've got ourselves a large ceramic cap going down to our Mains Earth here, so that's for suppression of course. And then you've got our miscellaneous control and voltage stuff coming in here. Ah, now this. This is interesting.
Let me see if we can get a close-up on that. What we're actually looking at here is a current transformer. Check this out. We've got all these are fine windings of course going around the ferrite, but then through it.
we have this winding here which goes through that. So it's a basically a current transformer. a current clamp transform us Now in this particular case, because of its physical location here, it seems to be measuring the input current to the actual converter itself. so probably for like overload protection.
Or you know, there's monitoring something like that. Perhaps because it's obviously not measuring the output current because you can't do that in this physical location on the circuit. So yeah, that's neat. But curiously, if you go to the other side of these chokes here, by the looks of it, we've got another couple up there as well.
So once again, this is not, doesn't seem to be measuring the actual output current. So I don't know why they need to do that twice More pure and that chokes an absolute beast. Look at that. Ah well.
what does that to? Mill Solid copper. Oh, it's about 1.7 millicent including this here which is actually going to be a thermic. They're all just stuck down on this screw. Rubbish.
This stuck down we say thermal adhesive tape. They're on both on all the heat sinks. On each module, there's three heat sinks total. Oh We might be able to get a part number down there.
there's all the rest of the parts going on. there. Is that a pic? or all the Pic fanboys going to go wild without being able to see those numbers? I'd be guessing we probably have like a duck. We're gonna have an ADC in there I'm gonna sell us a real fair dinkum relay as well.
Got some miscellaneous regulators and those four babies down in there had a good look. and there are Stt H2o2 s ultra fast deities. And check out this bad boy on the heatsink here. Oh, isn't that a Bobby Dazzler Yes, that is a 5 milli ohm current sense resistor.
It's a 4 terminal job of course - for cents and - for the actual resistor itself. And yes, it is a thermally mounted onto the heatsink there. I Don't know what the part next to it is though, but anyway that is obviously aware they are measuring the output current from and that would be worth a pretty penny. That thing down on their own heat sink down there, there are 460 are 360s. they'd be MOSFETs Now this is actually starting to look an awful lot like a resonant mode controller. It just makes sense walk. It's a basic generic resonant mode topology, but I think we're gonna see that line up here. We've got ourselves our 4 diodes down here.
We've got ourselves four MOSFETs under here. So I think that's what we're gonna see. so that's probably just part of an output filter. I'd say but yeah, I'd say yeah, it's coming in here.
This is our full wave bridge. These are our caps. Let's stick with me. and that way we've got an inductor, we've got A, then our isolation transformer.
We've got our four output rectifier diodes down here. and then there's as I said, there's another MOSFET under here. so I'm not quite sure what they're doing there and then we've just got some output filtering. So yeah, I think that's how it works.
Sure, the power supply aficionados will all be coming in down below about what's going on here, but anyway, it looks to be some variation of a resonant mode controller. exactly how they're doing it. I Don't know we'd have to reverse engineer it and that we're to cry ripping the whole guts out. So rather curiously, all of the wires here are actually soldered down to the PCB Down here, there are like crimped into little you know, proper little crimping lugs.
and there there are soldered down to the boards. So all that wire in there. Yeah, you can see the see the ground wire down in there. There you go.
focus your bastard there. you go. right down there. You can see that they've got those crimp leads on there which go into the board.
So nice attention to detail there. But yeah, that's surprising that they didn't use an off board connector. So check out these output boards down in here. Who are the huge big crimp terminals here? Absolutely massive and shape proof washers the whole shebang, so that is very nice.
All your terminals at once again. I think they got a little maybe a little bit of output capacitance? there? not much. Of course in a good lab power supply, you do not want too much output capacitance because then when you transition from constant voltage to constant current mode, you've got all that energy in those output caps and you don't want that to dump into your poor little load that you're trying to instantly protect so ya can't just whack you know, ten thousand Mike on the output of your power supply to make it super stable. and then ya not think you're going to come a gutter when you power your circuit.
Yeah, eagle-eyed viewers will have no doubt spotted the ceramic on the output there. I Think that could be once again some suppression to ground I think and I think that's directly across the output now because I've done a video on where our ceramic caps like that can explode and if they get cracked micro crack they can short out and the magic smokers can be released and you've got a real interesting video on that actually a couple of videos and how you can solve that by using either put two in series or you can solve that by using special specially constructed ceramics that fail open or are simply more resistant to cracking due to various construction techniques. Anyway, there is our ego. It looks like it has integrated factory integrated Wife: I Don't know if that is like a software option or not. Who knows. Anyway, sorry, it's hard to really get down into this board. so please excuse the crude D of the video. didn't have time to build it to scale out of paint.
it looks like a freezer Freescale job' down there. There you go. So that's the applications processors driving all the touchscreen. Whoo-whoo And yeah, you got all the requisite memory flash and DRAM as well.
Nice headers down there. there's two headers are they JTAG headers. That'd be really nice I spy a reset button or it could be like a serial interface you art as well. So yeah, it'd be interesting to probe those I won't do that in this video though.
but anyway, that's just your requisite control board. Nothing special really. But anyway, as output connectors Bobby Dazzler So as you can see the construction in this thing, absolutely gorgeous first-class design and build quality. Worth every cent and you're paying for it.
I Mean this is the top shelf Rohde & Schwarz Power Supply just released. So yeah, hats off to the design team. A very very nice indeed. Just working this back together and noted the little RF fingers.
They're nice. Alright, let's power this bad boy on. Unfortunately, our soft power button on the front does have a real clunk and power switch on the back though. so hopefully I reconnected everything.
Let's go in Gp8 one 4pl supply beauty because there is no model number on here. it's just Ng P800 so they don't actually bother to tell you that Rohde Schwarz booting booting? Oh what? What was that? Okay, that was just like soft booting. Is this: hello? Oh, there we go. Okay, yep, now we're doing the real booting are we? I suspect So it was just booting up to standby mode effectively I Suspect that's what was happening there.
So yet not exactly the world's quickest booting power supplies every day, you sir. But this is not for every day. yes, Bench power Supply. so it sit back to do your thumbs.
Oh boy yeah oh there we go. we're in like Flynn look at that. four separate indicators for the four channels. Absolutely fantastic.
I Love that they can hang on that's yellow but that's orange. Okay, okay. I've got my color balanced studio lights on here and well yeah, yellow and that's supposed to be orange. wah wah wah wah yeah I can kind of see it but it's just not the same. They really should have picked another car I don't know about like the whole colorblind thing and things like that. So I'm sure our colorblind Oh viewers will tell us all about that whether or not they're suitable. but yeah, no I think that's poor choice. but anyway, it doesn't really matter cuz it's obvious that's channel 1 and this Channel 1.
they're physically the same. So yeah, no workers suppressor output button on. That's it. We're just going to start measuring or one milliamp there.
So obviously without reading the manual, there you go. Channel One. So we got. Ok.
so there you go. Output one off and on. So these are your enable buttons for your channels and this is your complete on-off output so that absolutely makes sense. By default, it's comes as one volt.
that's about three milli volts and of it yeah, nothing doing there. Can't use our knobby knob for anything really. that's just a selection thing. Oh by the way, yeah, for those complaining at home, there we go.
Spill that bad boy off there we go. Let's press the home button. I Guess the home button? This is we are in the home menu I Mean we can call up. Yeah, this all our menus.
We'll check that out later this way. Pa Review: Sorry. It was more of a like unboxing teardown thing, but presumably can we just touch that? Ah, yep. I Hope the knob works.
Oh yeah, the knob sort of didn't wear yet goes up in increments. so obviously our curses in that position. But the problem is like you can't just like move your cursor over and like select. let there's no arrow keys on here to move your cursor over to set the jumping increments.
It's one volt so that's the very first thing I Noticed about that Anyway, I do like the display. it's really good and I'm sure it will change color like to read or something of go into constant current mode from green to red. But anyway, we've got our set voltage and our Reebok voltage, our set current and our read back current for each channel. so it's nice.
it's got our output power as well. Brilliant. So yeah, I like the interface, it's nice. except yeah, how do we like? yeah, I can hit that okay and then I can like oh okay, there we go.
So then I can use that to sort of let's go 10 milli volt increments shall we? And then weird. Yeah, okay, it's there. but anyway, it's and it's going live - that's the other thing it's outputting lies so it doesn't wait until you like. push the button.
Oh no, there we go. There we go. I figured it out Law. That's pretty nice.
Okay, yep, that's really good. Okay now I take back what I said about that. that's really good. I can then go to there, just move the cursor by pressing that.
Very nice. Yep, yep, thumbs up and sure enough. Yep. if you work a load on it, go into constant current mode. There it is there. I'm At one point it's dropped from six volts to one point one. And of course the reason it doesn't dump much is one point one out here and it's 1 volt. Reading on here is because of out the drop in our leads and our connections because we're not remote sensing anything.
I Really like that even though it's displaying only one milliamp there, you can actually set down here in increments of 0.5 milliamps so you get a little bit extra for your dollars there. Now of course this is an 800 watt hour power supply, so that means it's not limited to 200 watts per channel. so there'll be an average current envelope there. so you can't just go to the maximum.
0 to 32 volts are 0 to 20 years. Can't just go? Oh, I'll take our 30 volts at 20 amps please because you're going to blow you 200 watt budget here. So if we go to Channel 1, for example, when we set it to 30 volts, we can't just go into here and set 10 amps here up 10 amps on our current. They're not sorry.
we can only go to Six Point Six Six Six and there's nothing unusual about that at all. Any. well. Spector Lab power supply will have a power envelope like that it's called and you'll actually find that in the manual.
and now I Can't get it to what hiccup or do anything like that with our BK Precision Power Supply killer here in that constant resistance mode. It's just handling that just fine. No workers anyway. 20 amps output to our capability.
That is a very nice that you know not many too many lab power suppliers will go up to what 20 amps? So that's absolutely brewing. And as for the noise in this thing I Can barely hear it. The fans are actually going, but there are obviously temperature high temperature control because it's it's pretty silent and if I switch the load off, can still hear him going. but geez, yeah it's It's quite a low-level background.
I'm gonna whisper quiet lab at the moment and yeah, you can hear it, but certainly not annoying. Alright, let's go and explore some of our options, shall we? Let's go into the channel. look at this output that's going that delay. We can set a delay on our channel I Assume we set that up somewhere else.
remote sense of course Auto That's very nice so we can set it to external sense here if you got it hooked up. but yeah, Otto's nice. if you plug it in, it's going to detect that I don't think the others had that poor I Don't think so. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
and yep, hi at the screen is a bit reflective. little bit annoying, but no, you know it's par for the course these days. anyway. I'm over current protection I Assume that's just software over current protection and over-voltage protection of course.
Absolutely essential if you're pairing like I've powered up boards worth. You know, like 50 grand? That's like them up. It's like the first prototype or it could be worth. you know, a million bucks because if you blow up that one prototype board and you lose your schedule for your project and a million dollar or ten million dollar projects hanging by the thread of literally black thread of these wires hanging out, pairing up the prototype, yeah, you want it. You don't want to blow the ice out of it and release the magic smoke. So that's what you do over voltage protection to make sure if it's a 5 volt board. for example, you'd set your over voltage protection to like five point two, five, or five point five as so just to be sure that you don't go over that limit and over current protection as well. That is different to your output, voltage and current settings.
It just means that some idiot manager can't come along or marketing person can't come along and start twiddling the knobs and and playing with the panel and actually blow up your million-dollar prototype. And it's got ramps as well enabled. You can enable our ramp our ramp time either. That's just nice to certain.
Like I could put it on the scope, but I guarantee you it's going to work. it's just going to ramp up over the one second. Nice linear ramp. Absolutely fantastic Because some supplies special aren't real complex semiconductors these days.
You've got to bring them up in the right sequence and in the right amount of time so you know they're really handy. And then you've got arbitrary stuff and I'm sure you could do PC Software I Can literally spend a week and a several hour video actually fully reviewing everything on this power supply so obviously that's not possible are over power protection as well. very nice and log input so we can tie our analog input to once again I Haven't read the manual for this so and local voltage or current set. so what do we do? I Guess we set that somewhere else so analog enabled so it won't so we can switch on or off based on analog input perhaps adjustment? Use a Restore Factory adjustment user adjustment if you want to self calibrate I guess And safety limits? What are safety limits? There you go.
Once again, What? What's the difference between safety limits and over voltage over current protection? But geez, Well, they're taking this seriously, aren't they? This is absolutely incredible and you've got all this for each individual channel. So let's go into device. So in our arbitrary waveform editor, can we actually draw? Because we do have a touchscreen? Can we like the drawer in like a dick and balls or something and then have it generate that? That'd be cool. But anyway, I'm sure you can tie that into our other Rohde & Schwarz gear like scope so you can capture a waveform, then maybe replay it on your power supply.
Something like that. Tracking of course. if you want to track up multiple channels, if you want to adjust once and then have any or all track, can you set individual? Yep, look at that. you can set I Want Channel three to check track Channel one? Thank you very much. Fantastic digital I/o trigger. So there you go. So yep, you can set that to trigger. I'm not sure if you're gonna sign those two individual channels.
that would be kind of cool. And then we've got all their interface stuff. I've got our networking. Of course, we've got our Ethernet and our wife eyes and our USB classes and all that sort of goodness out user-defined Oh, that's a user-defined button.
We figured out what the star does. Here you go: use a button action. Was it? Do a screen shot? Oh, that's fantastic. or you can turn on login.
Absolutely brilliant. So let's just a reset. statistics I Touch lock if you want to bugger off the touchscreen. if you don't As I said, you know if marketing or management's coming around to like, have a look at your later start prototype.
You want to like turn off the touchscreen so the decades can't screw it up on you. Absolute, that's great I Like that. but I'm gonna select login. Thank you very much.
So, if we actually go out of here and we switch our outputs actually on and if we can, we just hit login. Oh there we go. It's a little tiny log icon up there so it's looking that log in all four channels presumably and we can I presume. we can export that to what CSV to our hearts content.
So absolutely terrific. I Like the menu interface, it's very simple. You've got like, like the entire device, one like this, or individual channels. update device licenses and stuff like that CSV settings.
There it is. Yep, so that's for your login stuff. You can change what format you want. Geez, there really went to town on this.
That's absolutely terrific. I'm yeah. I'm impressed. This is good and we can go fullscreen.
Oh look at this. well you this? Wow. There's all of stats as well, so that's where we could assign that button there. reset our statistics.
Ah, absolutely terrific. So if we turn on Channel 1 here, there we go. We're actually logging and we've got stats and we can reset those. tells us how many they presume.
That's well. yet there we go. We can just reset that there Oh energy as well. It does energy calculation.
look what hours. there it is, in this case, milli watt hours. Ah, great for battery testing and stuff like that. This user interface is fantastic.
I'm really liking this. This is going to be my main bench supply. This one's a Bobby Dazzler So there you have it. I Might leave it at that because as I said, a full-on review could take forever.
but if you do want to see something are specific, you can't actually leave it in the comments I might be able to shoot like a quick video and whack it on the second channel. that's my second channels for really is just whacking like I Seen, you know, really quick take quick and dirty single, take quick and dirty videos over there and stuff like that. No spit and polish, no nothing. But anyway, this is absolutely fantastic. New in GP 800 I don't know the price. if you have to ask the price you maybe you can't afford it a bit in this. An absolute Bobby Dazzler Thank you very much Rohde & Schwarz! Wow, this is top-shelf stuff. I'm impressed a user interface is.
they've really thought about that and works well as like other Rohde & Schwarz I Gear works like the The Run Schwarz scope that works absolutely fantastically from it like a user interface up interview. Very lots of spit-and-polish has gone into the design and functionality of this thing and yeah, they just released it. I'll try and maybe working some prices or something like that I Don't know what the equivalent competitors are from other manufacturers, but yeah, this has got winner written all over it. Absolutely fantastic, but it's not for you low-cost lab like none of this sort of Rohde Schwarz gear is.
really it's It's not built down to a price, It's built for performance and functionality. And you know you certainly pay a bit of a premium for that. But Wow it's worth every cent. Fantastic.
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So does the delay option mean that as your adjusting the voltage it won't change live until you're done?
What do you and Shahriar do with all these test instruments piling up anyways ? Time to start planning the grand opening of a test instrument museum in 30-40yrs time.
Good design and manufacture. Usually not cheap, but usually worth it, if you need more than a hobbyist needs.
I have bought it (NGP814) !!!
It's on my desk.
Now I'm thinking what to do with it and where my ยฃ4473.60 has gone…
Anyway…
Thank you Sir , I need to know plz the it is price and when i can get
Thanks again brilliant explanation
So is it a switcher?
This is not on my whishlist, this made the want list!
Two hours later – the rotary dial is also a joystick ๐น ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Sex on a stick!
Hello friend. Thanks for the video. I have a question. We have the same power supply in the lab. I want to control the output current ramp and voltage ramp via computer. For example it is gonna be on mode for 5 seconds, then it will be turned off, etc. Any advice?
great. now even your powersupply can get a computer virus.
My China's Finestโข DC only 32 volt power supply with a melted LCD cover from an acetone spill weeps while I'm watching this video. Its easy to say it is jealous. Or the switching trannies are about to go kapoot.
why are you screaming… disgusting ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
something about top-end circuit boards that just look so CLEAN
woha
funny
Where's that 327 circuit again, need to whip up some more boards.
How long does it take to re-boot when you want to stop current for a while as you change connections?
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm in the habit of turning my power supply off while I make quick changes to the DUT or circuit
Sure 24V isn't going to hurt me. But it might fry a chip or something if voltages accidentally find their own path to ground.
Maybe this PS is meant to just live on a statistics based test bench.
Either way, such a long boot time almost always means they are loading a Linux kernel. Linux is easy to develop and has a ton of tools out there. But it also is a server OS that has been adapted to embedded uses like this, so it has all kinds of architectural baggage that is has to load.
I prefer tools that don't boot, and don't crash!
The closed caption option is absolutely hilarious translating Australian slang haha…. Gorgeous looking piece of gear….
Waiting for Dave to find one of these in the garbage room, brand new in box.