OPERATION
Series 590
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Edition 2013-05-13
298292EB
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Operation
WARNING
Unqualified personnel
Inappropriate handling may cause serious injury or property damage.
Only qualified personnel are allowed to carry out the described work.
CAUTION
Valve opening
Human body parts may get jammed or easily injured.
Do not operate before valve is installed completely in the vacuum system.
5.1
Normal operation
This valve is designed for upstream pressure control in vacuum chambers. It can be employed in a
pressure control mode or a position control mode. In both cases local or remote operation is possible.
5.1.1
Local operation
Local operation means that the valve is operated via the service port using a computer or the Service
Box 2. When using a computer, a service cable and a software from VAT are required. You can either
download our freeware 'Control View' from www.vatvalve.comor purchase our 'Control Performance
Analyzer'. This software are beneficial especially for setup, testing and maintenance.
How to start:
Connect service cable, start software and push button ‘LOCAL’ to enable for operation.
Then enter menu
‘Setup / Sensor‘ and do sensor configuration according to your application to make
sure that you get the correct pressure displayed.
‘Control view’ supports:
parameter setup
manual control
numeric monitoring
basic diagnostic
'Control Performance Analyzer'
supports:
parameter setup
manual control
sequence control
numeric and graphical
monitoring
data recording
data analysis
advanced diagnostic
Figure 5-1
