Cannon Instrument miniPV-X User Manual

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CANNON

miniPV-Series Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO

Instruction & Operation Manual

Version 1.a— January, 2011;

CANNON

Instrument Company

2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA

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5. Click the

Define and Open New Configuration

radio button

define a new analysis configuration.

NOTE

If you have already configured and saved an analysis, its name will appear
in the list box on the right side of the window. If you click on an existing
configuration and click OK, the analysis will be performed using the
selected configuration settings. It will not be necessary to complete the
remaining steps in this procedure.

6. Click

. The

Port Output Configuration

window will appear.

The

Port Output Configuration

window consists of three tabbed

pages:

Date Filter

—allows you to select date/time parameters for the

analysis (see Chapter 6 for more information)

Error Page

—allows you to filter errors by source and by techni-

cian.

Port Output Format

—allows you to select the output port(s), what

sample data will appear in the output analyses, and how the data will
be displayed/sent.

7. Click on the tab corresponding to the filter you wish to set and

complete configuration options per the following instructions:

Date filter

a. Use the

Date Filter

to select the appropriate date/time parameters

for the analysis. See Chapter 6 for more information on using the

Date Filter

Error Page filter

b. Use the

Error Page

tab to limit the analysis to errors which have

been associated with certain instruments or analyses, or which are
associated with certain technician names.

To filter errors by source or technician name, click the

Error Page

tab from the analysis configuration window (see figure, next page).

Then select the desired error sources/technicians from their respec-
tive list boxes. To select a range of sources/technicians, click on the
first desired item and then hold down the

S key while clicking

on the last desired item in the sequence. To individually select
sources/technicians from the list boxes and add them to the analysis,
hold down the

C key while clicking on each desired tube/instru-

ment.

You may also type filter information directly into the

Selected . . .

list

boxes. Position the cursor in the desired field and use the keyboard to
input entries. You may use wildcards (%,_) to select a range of
samples. For example,

would include data from all samples

starting with

%S%

would include data from all samples contain-

ing

. The underscore (

) is a single-character wildcard.