DDS CALORIMETERS OPERATIONS MANUAL V1.1
2022
Website:
www.ddscalorimeters.com
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Digital Data Systems (Pty) Ltd.
CAL3K Advanced Bomb Calorimeters
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BASIC KEYBOARD OPERATIONS
The
ESC
key serves as a:
CLEAR/TERMINATE/ESCAPE
The
ESC
Key is safe to use at any time.
The
ENTER
key is:
ACCEPT/ENTER
All other keys function normally!
The FUNCTION KEYS are assigned to re-occurring operations:
F1
Mass
Entry
F2
Sample Identification (SID)
F3
F4
Spike Mass
!
F5
Balance mass
!
F6
Open the LID (Electronic locks only)
!
F7
Test Vessel hardware
!
F8
Terminate user test, print displayed result
!
F9
Test CAL3K hardware
F10
Function or Fault explanation
F11
Saved Fault event explanation (AP, A, F)
!
F12
The CAL3K has many keyboard commands of which you need only a few. The most popular and frequent
used are readily accessible, the others require a password to get access to. You are welcome to
experiment with all of these commands as you like. That is to say without reading the rest of this
manual.
The
CAL3K-A and CAL3K-AP
can operate in 4 different modes. All other units operate in one mode and
the following command is not required. Without explaining the modes set the mode to ZERO, which is
the DYNAMIC MODE. For details on mode changes see further on in this manual MODE CHANGE.
The keyboard commands below will be written in a different font, italic and indented.
82 SET OPS MODE
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The CAL3K has four operational modes:
0
Dynamic
1
Adiabatic
2
Isothermal
3
Fast Dynamic
To reset the CAL3K to a working condition you need to install the default parameters by:
