Thermo Scientific APEX 100, User Manual

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3) Press the Go button and an input screen
appears.
4)
Key in the pack gap (as a percentage).
Product Speed
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This function is used to enter the speed of
your conveyor (for conveyor applications) and
the flow rate of your product in the duct or
pipe (for gravity-feed and pipeline
applications).
1)
Make sure the Main Menu is displayed.
2)
Highlight the product-speed menu.
Product Speed
3)
Press the Go button and an input screen
appears.
4)
Key in the belt speed (meters/minute or
feet/minute).
Photo-Eye-to-Detector
Distance
This is the distance from the photo eye (on
the upstream or “in-feed” side of the
detector) to the in-feed side of the search
head.
1)
Make sure the Main Menu is displayed.
2)
Navigate to the system and tools menu.
3)
Press the Go button.
4)
Navigate to page 3 of the menu.
5)
Highlight the photo-eye set-up menu.
6)
Press the Go button and the “photo-eye
distance and head width” menu appears.
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7) Highlight the “in-feed photo-eye distance”
function.
Infeed Photo-Eye Distance
8)
Press the Go button and an input screen
appears.
9)
Key in the photo-eye-to-detector distance
(mm or inches).
Polarity of the Photo-Eye
Input
Because photo-eyes are either dark or light
activated, this function tells the detector how
to interpret the signals from your particular
photo eye.
1)
Make sure the Main Menu is displayed.
2)
Navigate to the system and tools menu.
3)
Press the Go button.
4)
Navigate to page 2 of the menu.
5)
Highlight the inputs and outputs menu.
6)
Press the Go button.
7)
Highlight the inputs menu.
8)
Press the Go button and the inputs set-up
menu appears.
9)
On page 1 of the menu, highlight the “In-
feed Photo Eye Input” menu. The “+2”
notation tells you that the photo eye is
connected to Input 2 on the wiring board
and has a positive polarity.
Infeed Photo Eye Input
10)
To change these settings, press the Go
button and an input screen appears.
11)
Use the navigation buttons to select the
appropriate input (1–6) and polarity.