Calibration
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6. Calibration
The first calibration is performed by your service technician during commissioning.
You must manually recalibrate powder and liquid feed and cleaning agents because the actual
quantity will deviate from the set quantity for various reasons, such as fluctuations in water pres-
sure.
If your automatic feeder is equipped with calibration scales, water and MP are automatically cal-
ibrated every day. You need manually recalibrate only the cleaning agent and additives as nec-
essary. You must also recalibrate after every new delivery of milk substitute.
NOTICE!
If you do not recalibrate your automatic feeder on a regular basis, your calves will receive
insufficient or improperly mixed feed.
This will cause malnutrition. Malnutrition can cause impaired growth and development, in-
creased susceptibility to illness or even the death of your calves.
Calibration involves several steps:
•
The volume of the liquid components (water, cleaning agents and additives) is determined.
•
The weight of the powder components (milk substitute, additives) is determined.
If your automatic feeder does
not
have
automatic calibration scales
you must provide the fol-
lowing items for the calibration:
•
1 Measuring cylinder with ml graduations (capacity about 1 liter).
•
1 scales (weighing accuracy 1 g).
•
1 vessel for collecting milk substitute.
6.1
Calibrating without calibration scales
You determine the actual value using scales and a graduated cylinder and the program will
prompt you to enter this value using the number keys.
Proceed as follows to calibrate liquid components without calibration scales:
1. Navigate via
> Calibration
to the
Components
sub-menu.
2. In the
Water
menu, you calibrate water.
2.1.
Confirm
Water
by choosing
.
2.2.
Set qty
shows the quantity of water to be dispensed by the automatic feeder.
2.3.
Runtime
shows the time in which the automatic feeder should dispense the water.
2.4.
Date
shows when the water was last calibrated.
2.5.
Tilt the drained mixer forwards and hold the measuring cylinder under the discharge.
2.6.
Confirm
Start?
by choosing
.
2.7.
Confirm
Exit automatic mode?
by choosing
. This message will only be dis-
played if your automatic feeder is still in automatic mode.
Water is dispensed.
