Lincoln Electric IM10136 VRTEX MOBILE - Manual (Page 41)

B-22 OPERATION (USER MODE) B-22
Potentialdiscontinuitiesinclude:
•IncompleteFusion/Penetration
•Porosity
•Undercut
•PoorBeadPlacement
•WrongWeldSize
•Convex/ExcessiveReinforcement
•Concave/Underfill
•ExcessSpatter
END PASS
When the user selects the green “End Pass” menu
icon, the pass is scored, a snapshot of the weld is
taken,andthepercentagesoftheweldcontainingdis-
continuitiesarecalculated.If the user has inserted a
USB device, selecting “End Pass” also automati-
cally saves a student report to the USB memory
device at the front of the weld machine.IfnoUSB
memory stick is present, a red circle with a cross
throughitwillappearontheUSBiconintheupperright
handcornerofthescreen.Thisalsoindicatesthatthe
student report has not saved. Allow 10 seconds after
selectingthe“EndPass”icontoallowtimeforthefile
tobesaved.Studentreportsarenotsavedinternally
ontheVRTEX
® MOBILE.Ifthefileisnotsavedonthe
USBdeviceatthetimeoftheweldandanotherweldis
made,thepreviouswelddatawillbelost.
SCORE
Ontheupperrightofthescreen,ascoreforeachpara-
meteriscalculated.Theclosereachparameteristo
the ideal value, the higher the score will be (out of
100).Thetotalscoreatthebottomofthescoringsec-
tioniscalculatedasanaverageofeachparameter.To
achievethemaximumscore,theweldmustbemade
ontheentirelengthofthecoupon.
STUDENT REPORT
The student report is a PDF file that captures the
graph, discontinuities, bead render, score and other
information about the weld. See Figure B.47. This
PDFfile canbeprintedorarchivedfromanothercom-
putertotrackstudentprogress.ExampleofPDFbelow
showsstudentsrecord.
VRTEX ® MOBILE
FIGURE B.46 – POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITIES
FIGURE B.47 – STUDENT REPORT