Cannon Instrument miniPV-X - Manual

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CANNON ® miniPV-X Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO ® Instruction & Operation Manual
Version 1.0a— January, 2011; CANNON ® Instrument Company
2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA
CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION/INSTALLATION 1
The miniPV ® -X Automatic Viscometer .................................................................................. 1
Measuring kinematic viscosity ............................................................................................... 2
Safety cautions ..................................................................................................................... 3
Installation ............................................................................................................................ 5
Required installation components ............................................................................... 5
Vacuum Pump unit connections ................................................................................. 5
Bath unit connections ................................................................................................ 5
VISCPRO ® for Windows ® XP ® ............................................................................................ 6
Installing VISCPRO ® software .............................................................................................. 6
Computer requirements ............................................................................................. 6
Windows
® XP ® installation ........................................................................................ 6
Installation actions ..................................................................................................... 6
Running the software ............................................................................................................. 7
Checking configuration .......................................................................................................... 9
Inital Configuration .................................................................................................... 9
Logging in ................................................................................................................. 9
Checking Instrument Settings .................................................................................... 9
Viewing/editing setup information ............................................................................. 11
Manually changing tube calibration constants ....................................................................... 12
Checking Wash and Advanced Settings ............................................................................... 13
Preparing the miniPV-X for testing ...................................................................................... 15
Inserting the miniPV-X temperature probes/reference thermometer .......................... 15
Adjusting Vacuum/Pressure settings ......................................................................... 16
Setting bath temperature ......................................................................................... 16
Training tube sensors ............................................................................................... 18
Checking wash functions ......................................................................................... 17
Calibrating the miniAV ............................................................................................ 18
Notes on computer-directed miniAV operation ........................................................ 18
2 TESTING SAMPLES WITH THE miniPV-X
AUTOMATIC VISCOMETER 19
Turning on the miniPV-X ......................................................................................... 19
Testing samples ....................................................................................................... 19
Pausing a test .......................................................................................................... 24
Resuming a test ....................................................................................................... 24
Aborting a test ........................................................................................................ 25