KIC start, User Manual

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Version 1.1.0.x KICstart
6 KICstart User Manual
Quick-start Profile Checklist
The following checklist will go through the steps necessary to setup and complete a temperature profile.
You will need the following items:
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KICstart kit with thermocouples and aluminum tape.
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Test product.
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Knife or scissors.
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Kapton tape –optional, to use as a strain relief for the TC wire.
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Process Specs if applicable.
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Gloves – To handle product when it comes out.
1. Hardware Setup
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Make sure you have placed a battery in the KICstart profiler.
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Make sure you have the d ownload cable plugged into a COM port on the PC and the small round
8-pin end plugged into the KICstart .
2. From the Main Menu go to Global Preferences (Top-Left button).
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Choose your units for conveyor speed and distance, temperature.
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Click on the Green Checkmark button when finished.
3. From the Main Menu go to Define/Edit Process Window (Bottom-Left button).
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At the top of the Process Window screen is a field to enter your Process Window Name.
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Make adjustments to the spec limits, click on the Edit Specs button.
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Click on the checkboxes for the specs you want to use, and then fill in the temperature and time
limits.
Details about editing the process specs can be found under PROCESS WINDOW SETUP.
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Click on the Green Checkmark button.
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After entering the name click on the Green Checkmark button. The software will ask you if you
want to add this Process Window to you list of current Process Windows?
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Click on Yes to save it.
4. From the Main Menu click on the Run a Profile button.
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Enter in your product name or choose an existing one from the drop down list.
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Choose your Process Window (this was created in the previous step).
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Name your oven or choose an existing one from the drop down list.
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Click the Forward Arrow button and follow the instructions on each screen.
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At the Select Thermocouples to Use screen click on the TCs you have attached to the board and
plugged into the KICstart profiler .
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Make sure TC 1 is the Air TC and is extended 1 inch in front of the leading edge of the
board
.
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Click the Start Profile (Green Traffic Light) button. Follow any instructions the software
presents.
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Once you have placed the KICstart and board in the oven and run the profile the KICstart will
automatically begin downloading all the data when it drops below the profile stop temperature as
it exits. You must plug the download cable into the
KICstart profiler.
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At this point your profile will be displayed and you can analyze and predict to optimize it. Upon
exiting the graph screen you can choose to run another profile with the
original or predicted
setpoints and conveyor speed.
Once you have set your Global Preferences and Process Windows you do not need to do these steps
for every profile. You can just do Steps 1 & 4, and skip 2 and 3.