Vi. operation and menue system – IBM R/S Rheometer M/02-212 User Manual

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VI. Operation and Menue System

In the following chapter you will get overview on operations, menue system of R/S Rheometer and
measurements, both in manual and PC controlled modes.

The menue-system of R/S Rheometer (firmware-version 4.02) is a dual-language system. Following
languages are software selectable:

• English
• German

Desired language can be selected via menue item Configuration

→Language (if English language is

active) or Konfiguration

→Sprache (if German language is active).

More details on language selection see chapter 6.7.6.
The following chapter will describe instrument handling with ENGLISH language active.

After switching on the R/S Rheometer, LCD indicates the following information for few seconds:

* Name of the Rheometer;
* Software firmware-version installed in the instrument (Brand name);
* Serial number of the instrument (xxxxxx);
* Date and time;

Example:

After about 5 sec the instrument checks voltages of the Power Supply Unit. Displayed voltages are to lie
in the range from 14.9 to 16 V. Otherwise, some technical fault has occurred (

→ Repairs).

Beispiel:

This message is displayed for about 3 seconds. Then the MAIN menue is displayed.
Before you will get overview of the menue system of R/S Rheometer (Chapter 6.4), at this place it is
worth to make a brief summary on the rheometer keyboard and corresponding rheometer functions.

R/S Rheometer

Voltage check:
VCC:15.25 V