Manual

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CANNON
®
miniAV-X Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO
®
Instruction & Operation Manual
Version 1.a—August, 2008; CANNON
®
Instrument Company
2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA
Resuming a test ....................................................................................................... 24
Aborting a test ........................................................................................................ 24
Concluding a test .................................................................................................... 24
Working with Instrument Groups ......................................................................................... 25
Group configuration ................................................................................................ 26
Configuring the Machine Status window to correspond with multiple-instrument place-
ment ....................................................................................................................... 26
Viewing test results ............................................................................................................. 27
Creating an analysis ............................................................................................................ 27
Configuring the VI Matcher (optional) ................................................................................. 28
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CALIBRATING THE miniAV-X 29
Calibrating temperature ....................................................................................................... 29
Calibration procedure ............................................................................................. 29
Training sensors .................................................................................................................. 30
Standard tube calibration .................................................................................................... 31
Calibration procedure ............................................................................................. 31
Saving a calibration ................................................................................................. 34
miniAV-X calibration equations ............................................................................... 35
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USING THE miniAV-X SOFTWARE 37
VISCPRO
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generic instrument interface .............................................................................. 37
Main options .......................................................................................................... 38
Security options ...................................................................................................... 39
Initial security setup ................................................................................................. 39
Adjusting Security Settings ...................................................................................... 41
Print/Print setup options .......................................................................................... 42
Analyses options ................................................................................................................. 42
Analysis types ......................................................................................................... 42
Analyses menu options ............................................................................................ 42
Window options ................................................................................................................. 44
miniAV-X module menu options .......................................................................................... 45
Configure options ................................................................................................... 45
Print Instrument and Tray Settings ........................................................................... 45
Instrument Settings .................................................................................................. 47
Tray Settings: Tube and Bath ................................................................................... 49
Tray Settings: Test ................................................................................................... 51
Tray Settings: Wash ................................................................................................ 53
Tray Settings: Advanced .......................................................................................... 56
Saving a configuration ............................................................................................. 58
Calibration .............................................................................................................. 58
Service menu options .......................................................................................................... 60