The Mod. A1535D is a single width (5TE wide) board housing 12 HV channels, available with either positive or negative polarity. The channels share a common floating return, which allows on-detector grounding reducing the noise level; the floating return is insulated from the crate earth up to ±50 V (with a 65 V hardware limit).
The output voltage range is 0 ÷ 3.5 kV, with 3 mA maximum output current and 0.5 V set and monitor resolution. The boards is provided with both current and voltage protections. If over-current occurs, the relevant channel can be programmed either to turn off after a programmable trip time or to keep on providing the maximum allowed current: this particular feature allows the modules to work as current generator. The maximum output voltage can be fixed, through a potentiometer located on the front panel, at the same common value for all the board channels and this value can be read out via software.
The board channels can be enabled according to the interlock logic.
The HV RAMP-UP and RAMP-DOWN rates may be selected independently for each channel in the 1 ÷ 500 V/s range (1 V/s step).