AM503A

The Tektronix AM503A is a current probe amplifier plug-in for the TM500 system.

Tektronix AM503A

current probe amplifier

Produced from 1993 to (?)

Manuals

AM503A

AM503B/AM5030

AM503S

Common

AM50XX Declassification Document

(All manuals in PDF format unless noted otherwise)

Manuals – Specifications – Links – Pictures

The AM503A and AM503B were updates to the original 1976 AM503. They have digital readout of deflection factor. The AM503S is an AM503A bundled with a TM502A mainframe, a TM-500 toolbox, and a A6302 probe.

The AM503, AM503A, AM503B, AM5030 and 11A16 use the same current probe input connector, an Amphenol 165-12 connector. It contains pins for hall element and transformer connections, lock detection, probe degaussing, and probe type encoding.

The AM503A and AM503B were designed by Mike Mende.

Key Specifications

Bandwidth	A6302: DC to 50 MHz A6312: DC to 100 MHz A6303: DC to 15 MHz A6304XL: DC to 2 MHz (AM503B only)
Sensitivity	A6302, A6302XL, A6312: 1 mA/Div to 5 A/Div A6303, A6303XL: 10 mA/Div to 50 A/Div
Range	A6302: max. 20 A continuous, 50 A peak A6303: max. 100 A continuous, 500 A peak A6304XL: max. 500 A continuous, 700 A peak
Output	Into 50 Ω Scope, Input Set to 10 mV/div
Power	17 W
Compatible probes	A6302 (20/100 A, DC-50 MHz), A6302XL (20/100 A, DC-17 MHz) A6312 (20/100 A, DC-100 MHz) A6303 (100/500 A, DC-15 MHz), A6303XL (100/500 A, DC-10 MHz) A6304XL (500/700 A, DC-2 MHz, AM503B only) CT4 with A6302, A6302XL or A6312 (2000/20000 A)

Links

Documents Referencing AM503A

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Documents Referencing AM503B

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Rear interface

The output can be detached from the front panel BNC socket which has a Peltola connector on the inside, and re-attached to a Peltola socket near the top of the interface connector, where it is terminated in 50 Ω and brought out on pin 28A (ground on 27A).