BNC 835-3 User Manual - Manual (Page 8)

Applying Power
1. Place the 835-3 on the intended workbench and connect the appropriate DC power
supply to the receptacle on the rear of the unit. Make sure you use the included DC
power supply. The 835-3 requires 6 V DC at 3 A maximum. Using other supplies
may lead to malfunction and damage of the Model 835-3.
2. Press the Line on/off switch on the rear panel. The front panel display will illuminate.
The instrument will initialize, and momentarily display the model number, firmware
revision and product serial number. The display will then switch to the factory default
display setting, showing preset frequency (100 MHz) and power (0.0 dBm), phase lock
status (internal reference) and instrument IP number (0.0.0.0).
Connecting to LAN
Connect the 835-3 to your local area network (LAN) or directly to your PC/Labtop using
the Ethernet cable. The instrument is configured to accept its dynamic IP number from
the DHCP server of your network. If configured properly, your network router will assign
a dynamic IP number to the instrument which automatically will be displayed on the
screen. Your instrument is now ready to be controlled.
Connecting to PC without LAN
If you want to connect the instrument directly to your computer (without router in the
LAN), you must use an Ethernet cable with crossover (not required if your computer has
Gigabit-Ethernet). To work properly, the network card (NIC) of your computer must be
configured to use DHCP. If your computer runs on a fixed IP the connection will fail.
After a short time, the instrument will detect that no DHCP server is present and assign
itself a default IP number 169.254.5.5. The instrument now must show 169.254.5.5 on
the display. Should the IP not appear after more than 30 seconds, leave the LAN cable in
place and turn the instrument off and then on again and retry.
Installing the 835-3 Remote Client
BNC’s graphical user interface provides an intuitive control of the 835-3. It runs under
any Windows™ 2000, XP or Vista operating system with minimum requirements. The DLL
is embedded in the GUI application and requires .NET to be installed. To install the GUI
on the computer, insert the Software and Manual CD into the CD/DVD drive. If the setup
doesn’t start automatically double click on the setup.exe to run the auto-installer.
The self-extracting setup provides easy installation and de-installation of the software.
The setup program guides you in a few steps though the installation process. In case the
.NET Framework is not installed on the current Windows™ operating system, the setup
procedure automatically will assist you to install the required version. For this you will
need an internet connection.
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