Cannon Instrument miniAV-LT - Manual (Page 2)

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CANNON ® miniAV Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO ® Instruction & Operation Manual
Version 1.0g— August, 2008; CANNON ® Instrument Company
2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA
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
3 CALIBRATING THE miniAV 29
Calibrating temperature ....................................................................................................... 29
Calibration procedure ............................................................................................. 29
Training sensors .................................................................................................................. 30
Standard tube calibration .................................................................................................... 32
Calibration procedure ............................................................................................. 32
Saving a calibration ................................................................................................. 35
miniAV calibration equations ................................................................................... 36
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USING THE miniAV SOFTWARE 37
VISCPRO ® 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 ............................................................................................ 43
Window options ................................................................................................................. 44
miniAV module menu options .............................................................................................. 45
Configure options ................................................................................................... 45
Print Instrument and Tray Settings ........................................................................... 45
Instrument Settings .................................................................................................. 48
Tray Settings: Tube and Bath ................................................................................... 50
Tray Settings: Test ................................................................................................... 52
Tray Settings: Wash ................................................................................................ 54
Tray Settings: Advanced .......................................................................................... 56
Calibration .............................................................................................................. 58
Service menu options .......................................................................................................... 60
Testing samples—software options ...................................................................................... 65
Entering sample ID information ................................................................................ 65
Selecting sample actions .......................................................................................... 65
Viscosity Action for viscosity standards ................................................................... 67
Copy & Paste Sample ID data entry options ........................................................... 68