Product Manual

FLIRMR160USERMANUALDocumentIdentifier: MR160‐en‐US_AD

5. Operation

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ImportantNote:Pleasechargethemeter’sbatterybeforefirstuse.Instructionsforbattery

chargingareprovidedinSection6.2.

5.1PoweringtheMeter

1. PressthePowerbutton momentarilytoswitchthemeterON.

2. PressandholdthePowerbuttonfor>1secondtoswitchthemeterOFF.

3. Ifthebatterystatusindicatorshowsthatthebatteryvoltageislow,orifthemeterdoesnot

poweron,chargethebattery.Seesection6.2BatteryCharging

.Thebatterystatusindicator

isvisibleintheMainMenu(pressthecenterSelectbuttontoaccesstheMainMenu).

4. Pleasefullychargethebatterybeforeuse.

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5.1.1AutoPowerOFF(APO)

ThemeterswitchesOFFautomaticallyafteraprogrammedperiodofinactivity.Pressany

buttontoresettheAPOtimer.TodisableAPO,ortochangetheAPOtime‐outvalue,usethe

Settings

mode,accessiblefromtheMainMenu.Thedefaulttime‐outis20minutes.

5.2MoistureMeasurements

5.2.1MoistureMeasurementOverview

Moisturemeasurementscanbeperformedusingeithertheinternalpinlessmoisturesensor

(rear)orbyconnectinganexternalprobe.Astandardexternalpinprobeisincludedwhich

connectstotheMR160viathejackatthebottomofthemeter.Otherexternalprobesare

available;pleasevisitwww.flir.com/testfordetails.

NOTE:Objectsincloseproximitytotheinternalpinlessmoisturesensor(locatedontherearof

theunit)willaffectthereadingonthedisplay;Keephandsandfingersclearofthesensorwhen

takingmeasurements.

Theinternalmoisturesensordetectsmoisturetoadepthofapproximately19mm(0.75”).The

actualdepthwillvarydependingupontheamountofmoisture,thematerialundertest,surface

roughness,andotherfactors.

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Moisturereadingsareshownonthedisplay(digitallyandwithbargraph)intheMoisture‐only

modeorinsmalldigits(upperlefthandcorner)intheIR+IGMMoisturemode.SeeFig.5‐1.

Pinlessmeasurementreadingsare‘relative’scaled(0~100).Pin‐basedreadingsarerepresented

intermsof%MC(moisturecontent)forwoodand%WME(woodmoistureequivalent)fornon‐

woodmaterials;additionalinformationisprovidedinSection5.2.6ExternalPinProbeMoisture

Measurementsandinthespecifications.

Moisturemeasurementsarecoveredindetailinthefollowingsections.BesuretoselectPin

ModeorPinlessModeintheMoistureMenutomatchthemeasurementtype.