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Expansion Board Setup
All motorised stages will have two motor control expansion boards fitted which have the following setup screen (both screens are identical, barring
that one is for X and one is for Y Axis movement), accessed by taping on the setup bar and taping on the blue arrow:
No options can be changed on this screen, it is for information only.
Tensile stages
This section applies to the TST range of stages, which include the TST350, TST350E and TST250V.
Additional main screen display items:
When a tensile stage is connected, the main control screen will display the following additional information:
1.
Distance between Jaws / Stress value
2.
Force being applied / Strain value
3.
Current velocity
4.
Tensile control panel
5.
Manual Tensile Control/Tensile Setup
6.
Current jaw status indicators
7.
Tensile pause button
Current jaw status (6) shows the current motion status of the jaws. If they are currently in motion the moving indicator will be red, and green when
they are stationary. The open and closed indicators will light up blue when the jaws are in their fully open and closed positions respectively.
A tensile motion pause button (7) will appear when the stage motors are currently in motion. It will appear as a stop symbol
when the motors
are started and when taped it will pause the motor operation and change to a start symbol
. Tap the button again to resume motion. Heating
will
not
be paused when this control is used.
Note:
Select between Distance/Force and Stress/Strain display in the force tab in option board setup screen. In order for Stress/Strain values to be
accurate you must enter values for sample width and thickness in the Tensile setup screen.
Tensile Control Panel
These controls are used to set the tensile parameters of a ramp.
