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Laurel Electronics LAUREATE SERIES SCALE-WEIGHT METER User Manual

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ALARM TYPES


Latched alarms
stay actuated until reset. They can shut down machinery or a process when a
setpoint (or limit) has been exceeded or maintain an alarm condition until acknowledged by an
operator.

Non-latched alarms change state automatically when a reading rises above a setpoint and
change back automatically when the reading falls below that setpoint.

Dribble is a settable scale meter parameter in counts which allows a flow to be shut off before
the setpoint value has been reached. For example, set the setpoint to 100.0 (1000 counts) and
the dribble factor to -50 counts to turn off the fill of a 100.0 lb bag at 95.0 lbs if the shut-off
system is known to dribble another 5.0 lbs following shut-off.