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Chapter 9. The Qualification Study
Chapter 9. The Qualification Study
9.1 Introduction
Once you have defined your setup, you load the setup into the Kaye Validator from your Console
or from a USB flash drive, and then run a qualification study.
The Kaye Validator uses the qualification parameters defined in your setup to perform the
qualification study. Depending on the start and stop qualification conditions and the start and
stop exposure conditions defined in your setup, you can perform a fully automatic
qualification study, a fully manual qualification study, or a mixture of automatic and manual.
For example, you could specify in your setup that the qualification study starts manually,
exposure starts automatically when a contact closes, exposure ends automatically when the
contact opens, and qualification ends manually.
During the qualification study, the Kaye Validator performs calculations and compiles data for
your reports. Qualification data is always written to the Kaye Validator internal memory. In
addition, qualification data can be written to the USB flash drive.
The Kaye Validator provides over 4GB of internal memory to maintain qualification data
during a study. Qualification data resides in internal memory during study until you power
down the system. Once study is complete and stop qualification is executed the study data is
saved into Validator memory.
The Kaye Validator is also equipped with a lithium ion backup battery to provide short-term
power in case of AC power loss during your qualification run. The intent of the battery is to
provide sufficient time (approximately 60 minutes) so that you can perform an orderly
shutdown of the system. When the Kaye Validator detects that the AC power has failed and the
system is running from battery, it display indication on front panel LED. When the battery has
approximately six minutes of power remaining, the Kaye Validator stops collecting data and
closes its data files.
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