
Span Your Valves
Chapter 9
9-20
We recommend that you span your plastication pressure valve for optimum
plastication performance in four parts:
Confirm critical values
Span your plastication pressure valve
Test valve linearity with a plastication backpressure vs. position profile
Set the profile pressure alarm
Important: You may omit the subsection Span Your Plastication Pressure
Valve below if you have information from molding machine OEMs or
hydraulic valve manufacturers on spanning the working range of valves. If
available for your machine’s plastication pressure valve(s), enter valve
spanning values into pressure control limits PLC41-44 and proceed to Test
Valve Linearity. First confirm your critical values.
Confirm Critical Values
Important: Confirm that all entries you made for configuration values
(chapter 7) and profile values (chapter 8) are as follows:
On Worksheet Confirm Your Configuration
With These Words or Bits
ProSet Addr
7D
(chapter 7)
QDC module output to which you connected your
plastication pressure control valve
PLC02B06, B05, B04
B38/404406
Setoutput values for unselected valves
PLC0912 = your values
N44:365368
All ramping is disabled with zero ramp rates
PLC1720 = 0
PLC2528 = 0
N44:373376
N44:381384
Endofprofile Setoutput values
PLC3336 for zero output
N44:389392
Pressure limits:
Minimum Pressure Control Limit
Maximum Pressure Control Limit
Selected Pressure Valve, Output for Minimum
Selected Pressure Valve, Output for Maximum
PLC41 = 0
PLC42 = max attainable backpressure
PLC43 = your value
PLC44 = your value
N44:397
N44:398
N44:399
N44:400
8C
Backpressure vs Position algorithm
PPC03B01 = B00 = 0
B38/480481
(chapter 8)
Logical bridge to stop and set outputs before
postdecompression
PPC03B08 = 1
B38/488
Openloop control
PPC04B01 = B00 = 1
B38/496, 497
Expert Response Compensation (ERC) is disabled
PPC04B09 = B08 = 1
B38/504, 505
Backpressure setpoints
PPC10,14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42,
46, 50 all equal to max desired
backpressure
start @ N44:426
end @ N44:466
Position setpoints
PPC11,15,19,23,27,31,35,39,43,47
equal segments over shot size
start @ N44:427
end @ N44:463
Shot size
PPC62 = typical for your machine
N44:478
If these are not your current values, we suggest that you correct them now
and download them using the download procedure discussed in chapter 4.
Span Your Plastication
Pressure Valve