It was replaced by an Agilent for 2 years, but now it's back. It suffered 2 problems: very imprecise settings & no short circuit test. Its mane good points were very high power, easily restores its previous settings when turned on. The Agilent ran into its 1A limit quite easily & required a complicated menu navigation to restore previous settings.
Short circuit switches instantly welded themselves closed. The easiest solution ended up being bullet connectors. They don't expose the + side like a knife switch would. The male connector is naturally - although it might have been better as GND. They make a nasty arc when testing 30V, but don't weld closed.
In a pinch, the bullet connectors could be a parallel output for the banana plugs. Lions have never needed more than 2 power supplies, though.


It's a bad day when a power supply only has 0.1V precision, even then with a lot of nudging. The current limit can't get any more precise than 0.3A on the left while the right has 0.1A precision.
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