ARB 5500 Arbitrary Generator

The ARB 5500 arbitrary function generator fits into the NSG 5500 control unit and, together with AutoStar™ 7, provides the necessary control to simulate the battery and all battery-related events. It also provides advanced features such as power magnetics and continuous wave (ripple) simulation. With the addition of some transient modules and a trip switch, the 19" generator will meet almost all day-to-day requirements. The controller converts user inputs into algorithms for the ARB (arbitrary function generator), which creates a model of the requirement in its own memory and then generates an analog signal for the selected battery simulator during a test run. All required waveforms can be created from the built-in waveforms or by loading Clone™, e.g. a memory map of user-defined or pre-loaded waveforms from an external application. ARB also supports waveforms that may be difficult to describe or real events that need to be simulated. Therefore, AutoStar supports inputs from any external application that can be exported to .CSV format.