Hi All,
Got a question on an HP 8116A for those that might be familiar with it.
Been trying to do a calibration on one, and let me tell you, its not the most fun thing I've ever had to do. I've actually had to put it a side for now as it takes a lot of time.
Anyways, while working on the transition time section, I can't seem to get it to make the spec that the service manual claims that it can do.
On the overshoot / ringing parameter, I've tried to add capacitance to decrease the overshoot. The only option that is given for this adjustment is to apply 1 pF or install a jumper. Didn't want to install the jumper as this increases ringing, and my overshoot was already high.
As far as the transition time is concerned, I ended up going to a 10 pF cap, which was taking it back to the settings that it came with from the factory.
After trying this for awhile, the best I could get it was with an overshoot at 4.5% and a transition time of about 7.4 ns. While the specs state that the overshoot should be less than 4% with a transition of less than 6.6 ns. All though this isn't terribly far off, it falls out of specs.
Was wondering if anyone had any success with calibrating one of these, and what they did for this particular section.
I don't want to abuse the boards too much as they have some age by swapping components in and out.
Thanks for all the help.