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Entering a Striking Program
There are 4 Striking program options to choose from on your controller. Three of them are fac-
tory set programs to specific temperatures (listed below) and one you can customize. Striking
programs consist of two segments, a heating segment and a cooling segment. That segment is
then cycled up to 99 times. When the Striking Program is done cycling it will began the Anneal-
ing program automatically.
You access these striking programs from Setpoint by pressing
GO.
The display will flash “no”
alternately with ““Str”” (No Strike). If you do not wish to run a striking program you would press
GO
to select “No Strike” and the controller would move on to asking you what Annealing
Program you would like to run..
To select a factory program, press the
UP/ARROW
after pressing
GO
from setpoint until you see the temperature based Striking Pro-
gram you wish to run and press
GO
to select it. The display will then
flash “CYCL” alternately with the number of Cycles currently entered.
Enter the number of Cycles you want be using the
UP/DOWN
ARROWS
and then press
GO
select it.
The display will then cue you to select an Annealing program. After an
Annealing Program has been selected the controller will run both the
Striking and Annealing programs selected then shut down..
Writing a Custom Striking Program
From IdLe press
UP/ARROW.
The display will then show HtUP.
Keep pressing the
UP/ARROW
until you see ““Str”” in the display
then press
GO.
The display will read rA 1 alternately with the current rate that is en-
tered. Use the
UP/DOWN ARROWS
to navigate to your de-
sired temperature rate and press
GO
to select it. The rate is expressed in degrees per hour. To
program the kiln to go as fast as it is capable, set it for “FULL” which is located between 9999
and 0000.
Next it will prompt you to enter the temperature you want to reach in segment 1. The display
will read
°F 1 (Degrees Fahrenheit) alternately with the current temperature setting. (If the kiln is set
to read in Celsius it will show °C 1). Use the
UP/DOWN ARROWS
to navigate to your
desired temperature and press
GO
to select it.
Next it will prompt you to enter the amount of time you want to hold in segment 1. The display
will read HLd1 alternately with the current setting. When you enter a Hold time, everything to
the left of the decimal on the display is hours and everything to the right is minutes. Use the
UP/DOWN ARROWS
to navigate to your desired Hold Time and press
GO
to select it.
Repeat this process for the second segment.
You will enter the number of Cycles when you select to run the program from Setpoint.
1150
Rate
Temp
Hold
FULL
1150
0.05
FULL
900
0.05
1100
Rate
Temp
Hold
FULL
1100
0.05
FULL
900
0.05
1200
Rate
Temp
Hold
FULL
1200
0.05
FULL
900
0.05
Programming