Service Manua
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1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
Target customers for Aviator are:
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Small store businesses
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Open Markets
All our equipment is assembled, tested and
packed with great care. If you find that aspects of
our quality do not meet your expectations, please
contact OHAUS immediately.
Aviator scales are high-precision weighing
instruments, which are approved and certified by
weights and measures authorities. This scale is
certified in our production plant or by your local
weights & measures office. Please check the
certification stickers on the scale before use.
Read this service manual carefully.
If properly used and maintained, the scale will
provide years of accurate weighing. Please handle
it as you would any piece of precision electronic
equipment.
The information contained in this manual is
believed to be accurate at the time of publication,
but OHAUS assumes no liability arising from the
use or misuse of this material. Reproduction of this
material is strictly prohibited. Material in this
manual is also subject to change.
© Copyright 2010 OHAUS, all rights reserved.
TM Registered trademark of OHAUS.
1.2. Service Facilities
To service a scale, the service area should meet the following requirements:
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Should be temperature controlled and meet scale specifications for ambient temperature requirements.
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Must be free of vibrations, such as fork lift trucks close by large motors, air currents or frafts from air
conditioning/heating ducts, open windows, people walking by, fans, etc.
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Area must be clean and free of excessive dust.
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Work surface must be stable and level.
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Scale must not be exposed to direct sunlight or radiating heat sources.
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Use an approved electro-static device.
1.3. Tools & Test equipment required
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Common hand tools are sufficient to disassemble Aviator price computing scales.
Metrological instructions
Important legal note-for-trade
scales in EEC countries
Factory-verified scales carry this
identification on the label applied
on the package.
Scales identified by the green
"M" label applied on the
identification plate can be
operated immediately.
Scales calibrated in two stages
carry the opposite identification
on the label applied on the
package
These scales have already been
verified in the first step (declaration of
conformity according to EN 45501-8.2)
and should receive the second step at
their place of use.
This second step must be performed
by the certified OHAUS after-sales
service.
Please contact your local OHAUS
agency.
Retail scales, used for legal trade,
must be submitted for calibration and
verification.
Please respect and observe the
current metrological directives in your
country.
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