NEW BRUNSWICK SCIENTIFIC BioFlo 4500, Manual To Operations

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BioFlo 4500 M1254-0050 User’s Guide
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If you wish to leave the
INSTRUMENT NAME
blank, press
OK
. This will return you
to the
LOCAL CONTROL SETUP WINDOW
where you can also change the
NODE
NUMBER
.
•
If you wish to give the controller a name, press on the text box and a keyboard
will appear. Enter the name of the controller using the onscreen keyboard and
press
OK
.
•
Press
OK
in the
LOCAL CONTROL SETUP
window to accept the name change.
NOTE
:
Text is entered on the onscreen keyboard by pressing a letter,
number or character button.
To change letter case and characters, press the shift button. When
the word
SHIFT
appears in black, lower case letters appear on the
buttons. When
SHIFT
is written in red, uppercase letters and a
different character set appear on the buttons.
To clear the text box, press the
CLEAR BUTTON
. To accept the text in
the text box, press
OK.
To cancel, press
CANCEL
.
For the controller to work in conjunction with BioCommand s upervisory software ,
AFS Mode must be selected and the
NODE NUMBER
must be set to an even
number between 0 and 30. The first 10 loops in the BioFlo 4500 will appear at
the selected
NODE NUMBER
. Any additional loops will appear at the next odd
number (node number plus one). Do not use odd node numbers in AFS mode;
they will not be recognized.
The default operating mode for the controller is
LOCAL
. Verify that the word
LOCAL
is in the mode text box of the
CONFIGURATION SCREEN
, and that the
ENABLE NETWORK CONTROL
and
NETWORK ALL LOOPS
modes are disabled.