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Operator’s manual 

 

 

Summary of Contents for optris PI 1M

Page 1: ...optris PI Thermal Imager Operator s manual...

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Page 3: ...uality process Nevertheless if failures occur please contact the customer service at once The warranty period covers 24 months starting on the delivery date After the warranty is expired the manufactu...

Page 4: ...iguration Playing 49 Electrical Installation 10 Configuration Snapshots Copy to clipboard 49 Process Interface 13 Configuration Ext measuring colors 51 Start Up 14 Configuration Extended arranging 52...

Page 5: ...ettes The radiometric processing of the picture data enables the user to do a comfortable detailed analysis with the software PI Connect The optris PI is a precise instrument and contains a sensitive...

Page 6: ...Table tripod Thermographic software PI Connect Operators manual Transport case optris PI Thermal Analysis Kit optris PI Thermal Imager incl 31 9 and 64 lenses 2 USB cables 1 m and 10 m Process interfa...

Page 7: ...Avoid static electricity arc welders and induction heaters Keep away from very strong EMF electromagnetic fields Avoid abrupt changes of the ambient temperature In case of problems or questions which...

Page 8: ...5 m 20 m Vibration IEC 68 2 6 3G 11 200Hz any axis Shock IEC 68 2 27 50G 11ms any axis Electrical Specifications Power Supply 5 VDC powered via USB 2 0 interface Current draw max 500 mA Output Proces...

Page 9: ...K Frame rate 100 Hz Warm up time 10 min Emissivity 0 100 1 000 adjustable via software Measurement functions Measure points 1x1 3x3 or 5x5 pixels free adjustable location Measurement rectangle Size sc...

Page 10: ...anical Installation The PI is equipped with two metric M4 thread holes on the bottom side 6 mm depth and can be installed either directly via these threads or with help of the tripod mount also on bot...

Page 11: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 9 Mounting accessories optional Mounting base stainless steel adjustable in 2 axes Product code ACPIMB Protective housing stainless steel Incl Mounting base Product code ACPIPH...

Page 12: ...al Installation At the back side of the PI you will find two connector plugs Please connect the supplied USB cable with the right plug The left connector plug is only used for the process interface Ba...

Page 13: ...onal optris PI can be used at ambient temperature up to 50 C At higher temperatures up to 315 C the cooling jacket should be used Cooling jacket for optris PI Product code ACCJPI Mounting bracket for...

Page 14: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 12 Cooling jacket dimensions...

Page 15: ...t PIF out to control the process PIF in PIF out Emissivity Main area temperature Ambient temperature Internal temperature Reference temperature Flag status Flag control Alarm Triggered recording Trigg...

Page 16: ...so automatically Now you can connect the infrared imager to a free USB port USB 2 0 of your PC After the software has been started you should see the live image from the camera inside a window on your...

Page 17: ...I Connect If you want to uninstall the software from your system please use the uninstall icon in the start menu PI Connect software can be started with additional starting parameters using the comman...

Page 18: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 16 Overview 8 9 10 0...

Page 19: ...es displaying of all temperature values in the defined measure areas Cool Spots Hot Spots temperature at cursor internal temperature and chip temperature Alarm displays Diagram of defined temperature...

Page 20: ...ures in the radiometric JPG format IR videos Save captured video is used for saving of thermographic video files standard AVI format or radiometric RAVI format Reopen shows a list of recently opened f...

Page 21: ...ected video sequence will remain whereas not selected parts will be deleted Cut out means that the selected video sequence will be deleted 3 1 2 2 1 2 3 Video control pane contains Start Rewind Previo...

Page 22: ...tions Use View bars option to display Menu bar Tool bar Status bar Temperature range bar and Rulers on the screen individually or show hide all of them You can individually change the positions of the...

Page 23: ...rence bar you can set the position of the temperature scale within the infrared image window The menu item Use contrast color can be used for highlighting particular information within the IR image by...

Page 24: ...pplication window In the menu item Layouts you can manage the pre designed or your own image layouts You can save these layouts under user defined names or delete existing layouts Pre designed layouts...

Page 25: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 23 Examples of pre designed layouts Linescanner layout Multipoint layout Scientific layout...

Page 26: ...played for all the following images You can also load a previously saved image jpg or tiff to be used as a template for the image substraction Image substractrion is not activated The current averaged...

Page 27: ...lay of the infrared images Using Mirror you can mirror the camera view horizontally or vertically In the Language section you can choose from all installed languages Extended enables to boot the calib...

Page 28: ...f activated a reminder will appear to warn you on unsaved data or setups before shutting down the software Prevent screensaver Deactivates the screensaver Application title bar In this field it is pos...

Page 29: ...Directories Palette directory Path leading to your folder where your color pallets are saved Temporary recording file Choose directory for saving your temporarily recorded video file Every new record...

Page 30: ...er by defining the minimum maximum temperature value respectively minimum maximum frequency Aktuelle Temperatur anzeigen If activated red line showing the current temperatur will appear in the graph D...

Page 31: ...ding of color temperature or ADU values into other applications using Dynamic link Library DLL COMport If selected the data values sent out by the camera can be transmitted via specified COM port The...

Page 32: ...frame rate can be defined in this tab You can choose whether average minimum or maximum values should be displayed or whether skipping of values within specified frame rate should be used For less po...

Page 33: ...eve the ideal displaying of the infrared image Mirror Sometimes depending on the fitting position of the PI it is useful to mirror the camera image horizontally or vertically Iron Hi Iron Blue Hi Alar...

Page 34: ...tris PI E2010 03 A 32 Examples of various color pallets Iron Rainbow Blue Hi Rainbow Hi Rainbow Medical Gray Black Cold Using this tool bar button you can easily switch from one color palette to anoth...

Page 35: ...ss Up Down to position individual measure areas within the list One measure area from the list can be appointed as the Main area temperature of the main area converted into electrical signal can be al...

Page 36: ...e value minimum mean value or maximum should be shown Using Bind to profile you can assign each measure area to specified temperature profile In the Position section the exact position of the measure...

Page 37: ...re using the Cold spots or Hot spots search function here you can define areas which will be from the search excluded This means that in here defined area areas will not be searched for Cold or Hot sp...

Page 38: ...ature profiles graphically reproducing the temperature development can be generated The profiles are labelled as Profile 1 and Profile 2 Position of the profiles can be defined via coordinates P1 P2 o...

Page 39: ...se between automatic or manually set temperature ranges There are two possibilities of displaying the profile curves in the profile diagram 1 Profile curve fills out the whole profile diagram independ...

Page 40: ...the temperature profile Number of areas as well as the mode measure area type can defined by the user You may also specify the width and height of the areas Save the settings by pressing the Create bu...

Page 41: ...tor has to be exposed to a surface with a homogenous temperature Therefore a shutter or flag is released in regular intervals The flag can be also used to protect the detector from potentially dangero...

Page 42: ...he ambient temperature value is delivered by the camera s internal sensor In case that the values are controlled through Process Interface PIF the here defined values will be ignored Reference tempera...

Page 43: ...would achieve so called pincushion distortion image magnification increases with the distance from the optical axis If you put negative number the barrel distortion will be achieved image magnificatio...

Page 44: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 42 Lenses According you your requirements the PI camera can be supplied with 31 9 or 64 lens lenses optical parameters of the lenses 31 lens 9 lens 64 lens...

Page 45: ...cro adjustment allowing thermo graphic analysis in close up ranges combined with an excellent detailed resolution standard lens 31 x 23 with macro adjustments The telescope lens 9 x 7 is suitable for...

Page 46: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 44 The wide angle lens 64 x 50 is suitable for measurement of very high or very wide object at smaller distance Wide angle lens 64 x 50...

Page 47: ...Process interface PIF in Programming of the PIF as input 0 10 V to control the emissivity setting ambient temperature value reference temperature value or flag remotely Moreover recording and snapshot...

Page 48: ...0 03 A 46 Process interface digital input Process Interface can be also defined as a digital input Via this input low or high level can be specified flag function recordings or snapshots can be contro...

Page 49: ...Mode defines which values should be recorded within particular frame rate Should you select the Extended averaging option averaging time can be set additionally Recording time limit Definition of fixe...

Page 50: ...new measure areas and alarms can be created in addition to recorded data when doing the analysis Note Later conversion of a ravi file into a avi file and vice versa is not possible Template for trigge...

Page 51: ...ou to modify the play rate of recorded videos Replaying of recorded videos in a loop is also possible Snapshots Copy to clipboard tab allows you to decide if you want to keep the genuine resolution of...

Page 52: ...y the user by defining the minimum maximum temperature value respectively minimum maximum frequency Display current tem If activated red line showing the current temperatur will appear in the graph Di...

Page 53: ...edefined low and or high temperature values List of colors and color palletes are available to find the right contrast 75 0 Camera image using Iron color pallet option High alarm set on 75 C so that p...

Page 54: ...n Size of the image you create using this tool will appear in Resulting size field all predefined angle options from the second row have screen diagonal of 200 pixels Zoom In this section specified me...

Page 55: ...m value is reached the digit bar color will change from green to red high alarm or blue low alarm Display range for all alarms can be also defined The display background color will turn red after reac...

Page 56: ...arm signalization can be repeated in defined intervals You can select any available wav file to be defined as your alarm sound If you activate the Recording on alarm you can define delay and recording...

Page 57: ...face temperature on the basis of the emitted infrared radiation from an object The most important feature of infrared thermometers is that they enable the user to measure objects contactless Consequen...

Page 58: ...g results by interfering infrared radiation emitted by background objects flames heating systems chamottes To minimize measuring errors in such cases the handling should be performed very carefully an...

Page 59: ...f the colored surface CAUTION On all three methods the object temperature must be different from ambient temperature Characteristic Emissivities In case none of the methods mentioned above help to det...

Page 60: ...rolytic 0 05 0 15 roughened 0 05 0 1 oxidized 0 2 0 5 oxidized 0 4 0 8 Platinum black 0 9 Chrome 0 02 0 2 Silver 0 02 Gold 0 01 0 1 Steel polished plate 0 1 Haynes alloy 0 3 0 8 rustless 0 1 0 8 Incon...

Page 61: ...non oxidized 0 8 0 9 graphite 0 7 0 8 Carborundum 0 9 Ceramic 0 95 Concrete 0 95 Glass 0 85 Grit 0 95 Gypsum 0 8 0 95 Ice 0 98 Limestone 0 98 Paint non alkaline 0 9 0 95 Paper any color 0 95 Plastic...

Page 62: ...ware for the serial communication open the Options dialog and enter the tab Extended Communication Choose the mode Comport and select the port you want to use Also select the baud rate that matches th...

Page 63: ...an be dynamically linked into the secondary application Or it can be done static by a lib file too Both Imager exe and ImagerIPC dll are designed for Windows XP Vista only The application must support...

Page 64: ...tion e g http msdn microsoft com en us goglobal bb688096 aspx If needed the localization process can be very detailed Also the resizing of buttons or other visible resources and the support of right t...

Page 65: ...tion voltage to USB power 1000 VDC You can drive as maximum 10mA from the 12V out pin 2 or or or or from the analog output pin 4 The 12V output has a 1KOhm resistor in raw You can directly connect a L...

Page 66: ...be used as a digital output The voltage for no alarm and alarm on can be set within the software The analog output 0 10V has a 100 Ohm resistor in raw With a maximum current of 10ma the voltage drop i...

Page 67: ...optris PI E2010 03 A 65 The digital input can be activated with a switch to the PI GND or with a low level CMOS TTL signal Analog input Useful voltage range 0 10V...

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