KEPCO BOP 36-12DC Modification Sheet

MODIFICATION OF STANDARD

KEPCO®

KEPCO MODEL BOP 36-12MC
KEPCO MODEL BOP 36-12DC

THE POWER SUPPLIER™

The Kepco Models BOP 36-12MC and BOP 36-12DC have been modified from standard Kepco
Models BOP 36-12M and BOP 36-12D, respectively, to be stable handling capacitive loads up
to 10 mF.

INSTRUCTION MANUAL CORRECTIONS:

This modification makes the BOP more suitable for a wide variety of applications such as
solar cell/ solar panel testing, piezoelectric device driving/ testing, capacitor testing, capacitive
transducer driving/testing and powering industrial or lab-type applications for capacitive or
capacitive-resistive loads.

Static specifications representing the unit’s accuracy in Voltage mode are identical with the
standard BOP models, while the ripple and noise specifications are better (approximately 50%
lower) for MC and DC models than standard BOP models.

Specifications listed in Table 1 are for BOP 36-12MC and BOP 36-12DC in Voltage Mode.

TABLE 1. BOP 36-12MC AND BOP 36-12DC SPECIFICATIONS

Bandwidth (DC to f-3dB)

Resistive Load, Nominal Capacitive Load, 10µF

15.2 kHz >20 kHz 24 µS 70 µS

NOTES:
(1) Nonuniformities of the frequency response for the standard 10µF load create a larger 3-dB bandwidth than

for the resistive load.
(2) 10% to 90%, with nominal resistive load.
(3) Load between infinity and nominal resistive load values.

(1)

Rise/Fall Time

(2)

Recovery at Step Load

(3)

In voltage mode the bandwidth of the BOP 36-12MC and DC models is less than the stan­dard BOP, while the response time is increased. Nonuniformities of the frequency response can
be nearly eliminated by reducing the bandwidth in Voltage mode. Bandwidth can be reduced in
a predictable manner by increasing the internal compensation capacitance by placing an exter­nal capacitor in parallel across C21 of Assembly A1 (see Table 2 and Figure 1).

TABLE 2. BANDWIDTH CORRECTION

EXTERNAL CAPACITOR

(ACROSS A1C21, SEE FIGURE 1)

1 nF 2.2 nF 4.7 nF 15 nF 33 nF 47 nF 100 nF

CORRECTED BANDWIDTH 7 kHz 6.5 kHz 5.8 kHz 3 kHz 1.5 kHz 1 kHz 0.5 kHz

NOTE: Listed bandwidth correction values are for Voltage mode, nominal resistive load.

BOP 36-12MC/DC-r1/031512

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In Current Mode the dynamic specifications are almost identical for all BOP MC and DC
models: 3-dB bandwidth of 4.9kHz and rise/ fall time of 72µs (lower bandwidth and higher rise/
fall time than the standard BOP M and D models).

FIGURE 1. ASSEMBLY A1, EXTERNAL BANDWIDTH CORRECTION CAPACITOR LOCATION

2 BOP 36-12MC/031512