Contents
1.0 General information about the REOVIB product range ........................................................................ 1
2.0 Background to feed engineering ........................................................................................................... 2
2.1 The vibration wave form ..................................................................................................................... 2
2.2 The feed waveform ............................................................................................................................. 3
2.3 Vibrating frequency and resonance .................................................................................................... 3
2.3.1 Resonant condition ...................................................................................................................... 4
2.3.2 Under critical operation ................................................................................................................ 4
2.3.3 Over critical operation .................................................................................................................. 4
3.0 Operating methods for vibratory feeders ................................................................................................ 4
3.1 Unregulated drive control .................................................................................................................... 4
3.2 Regulated drive control ....................................................................................................................... 5
4.0 REOVIB – Symbols ................................................................................................................................ 5
5.0 REOVIB – Terms ................................................................................................................................. 6
6.0 Functions of controls units .................................................................................................................... 8
6.1 Enable input or Stop/Start input .......................................................................................................... 8
6.2 Status output ....................................................................................................................................... 8
6.3 Soft start ............................................................................................................................................. 8
6.4 Soft stop .............................................................................................................................................. 8
6.5 Coarse/fine control .............................................................................................................................. 8
6.6 Air valve output ................................................................................................................................... 8
6.7 Pulsed operation ................................................................................................................................. 8
6.8 Track control ....................................................................................................................................... 9
6.8.1 Single point control ....................................................................................................................... 9
6.8.2 Min/Max Control ......................................................................................................................... 10
6.8.3 Sensor Time-out ......................................................................................................................... 10
7.0 Controls ................................................................................................................................................ 11
7.1 Analogue units .................................................................................................................................. 11
7.2 Digital units ....................................................................................................................................... 11
7.2.1 Three key control panel .............................................................................................................. 11
7.2.2 Reset set point to zero ............................................................................................................... 12
7.2.3 Six key control panel .................................................................................................................. 12
8.0 General manufactures instructions for the installation of REOVIB control units .................................. 13
8.1 Before installation ............................................................................................................................. 14
8.1.0 Connection diagram for frequency drives .................................................................................. 14
8.1.1 Setting the mechanical vibrating frequency
14
8.2 Setting the feeder throughput ........................................................................................................... 15
9.0 Setting up regulation control of frequency ........................................................................................... 15
9.0.1 Setup menu for regulation control .............................................................................................. 16
9.1 Relationship between acceleration and amplitude ........................................................................... 16
9.2 Setting up instruction for using a controller in regulation mode ........................................................ 17
9.3 Determine resonant frequency ......................................................................................................... 17
9.3.1 Manual setting of the vibrating frequency .................................................................................. 17
9.3.2 Automatic frequency search ....................................................................................................... 17
9.4. Optimizing regulation ....................................................................................................................... 17
9.4.1 Control range adjustment ........................................................................................................... 17
9.4.2 Optimizing the regulation circuit ................................................................................................. 17
9.5 Diagnostic displays for non-optimized regulation settings ................................................................ 18
10.0 Working frequency of the coil ............................................................................................................. 18
11.0 Measurement of output current and voltage ....................................................................................... 18
12.0 Accelerometer mounting .................................................................................................................... 18
13.0 Trouble shooting - analogue controllers ............................................................................................. 19
14.0 Trouble shooting - frequency controllers ............................................................................................ 20
