Maguire Products WEIGH SCALE BLENDER WSBMB Series, Installation Operation & Maintenance

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FAST CYCLES - This key will allow you to exceed the normal blending rate of your unit. Once your system
has learned proper flow rates of each material, the timing of each component dispense is very consistent
cycle to cycle. The FAST key allows one or more FAST REPEAT cycles to follow a normal calibrated cycle.
In a FAST REPEAT cycle all components are dispensed simultaneously, without any weights being taken.
Errors in dispense amounts will not be detected. These are, in fact, volumetric dispenses, not gravimetric.
These dispenses take much less time. Throughput is easily doubled in this manner.
This key is NOT FUNCTIONAL unless the 4th digit of the "FLG" parameter is set to 1 (xxx1x). To do this,
see the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE section, PARAMETER TABLE, "FLG".
The shorter mixing time may be a problem. So the number of FAST REPEAT cycles is kept as low as
possible. Up to 4 repeats may occur.
Press the FAST key then the key to toggle the
FAST CYCLES flag ENABLED or DISABLED . When set
to (FAST OFF) the FAST mode will not operate. When set to ENABLED every normal calibrated dispense
will be followed by up to 4 FAST repeat dispenses.
This series of 4 dispenses is terminated as soon as the sensor is covered, which indicates the blender has
"caught up". The next cycle will then be a weighed cycle, followed by the required series of fast cycles to
catch up again.
Press to toggle between ENABLED and DISABLED.
Press EXIT, to exit.
When the FAST mode is in operation, the display will flash
“FAST” intermittently.
SETTING - Press once and the current setting of component 1 is displayed. Display will say: Comp X (REG)
xx.x. X is the hopper, followed by either REG, (REGRIND); NAT, (NATURAL); or ADD, (ADDITIVE). xx.x is
the current setting.
Press SET to step forward through all the settings. Press * key to backup in the list. NEW settings may be
entered directly.
REGRIND and ADDITIVE settings are expressed as percents, up to 99.9 percent. NATURAL is any number
you wish (usually weight). It is used to establish RATIOS with all other NATURAL entries. When only one
material is designated as a NATURAL, the value of it's setting has no meaning, except that it must be set to
some value to operate.
If you wish to restrict the entry of settings to the PROGRAM mode only, (password required), you may do so
by altering the _SE parameter for each component that you wish to "lock out". See MAINTENANCE
SECTION, PARAMETERS, _SE parameter.
TAG - This key allows two pieces of information to be "tagged" onto all data that is either printed or retrieved
through the computer communications ports. The items are WORK ORDER number and OPERATOR
number.
This key is NOT FUNCTIONAL unless the 2nd digit of the "FLG" parameter is set to 1 (x1xxx). To do this,
see the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE section, PARAMETER TABLE, "FLG".
Press once to display the current Work Order number:
Work Order: xxxxxx . Press again to display the
current Operator number: Operator Number: xxx . Press again for the Recipe number: Recipe: xxxxx . You
may enter or change the Work Order or Operator number, when each is displayed to tag all information with
these numbers. The Recipe number is used only for the Recipe Auto Download feature of the G2 software
or the earlier MLAN software. For information on Auto-download see the
Recipe Auto Download function in
the G2 Software Manual.
Work Order and Operator numbers are for your TRACKING of information ONLY. They have NO EFFECT
on the operation of the Weigh Scale Blender.
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WORK ORDER number (6 digits) allows you to tag all information with an internal accounting
number such as a job or purchase order number.
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OPERATOR number (3 digits) allows you to track who is operating the equipment.
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RECIPE number allows you to request a recipe stored in the G2 Software using a recipe number
between 100 and 65536. The Recipe Tag number is not for loading internally stored recipes. See
the RECIPE key for loading internally stored recipe numbers. If a recipe has been entered using
our G2 or MLAN software, then a 3-digit or 5-digit number will be displayed in this field. If a new