Handling errors, Turning off the vi matcher – 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

6. Click on the serial numbers in the

Select Low Temperature Tubes

list box which correspond to tubes that should be configured as low
temperature tubes by the VI Matcher. As you do so, the serial
numbers will be added to the

Selected Tubes

list box.

NOTE

Samples must have been previously run in a tube in order for the tubes to
show up in the Select Tubes list boxes

To “de-select” a selected tube, click again on the highlighted tube serial
number

7. Click on the tubes in the

Select High Temperature Tubes

list box

which correspond to tubes that should be configured as high tempera-
ture tubes by the VI Matcher. As you do so, the serial numbers will
be added to the Selected Tubes list box.

8. When you have finished adding low and high temperature tubes, click

to save the configuration and exit the General Configuration

window.

NOTES

To exit the General Configuration window without saving the configuration,
click Cancel.

For information on creating VI analyses, see the manual chapter corre-
sponding to the desired analysis.

Turning off the VI Matcher

The VI Matcher essentially function as a separate instrument and is
indicated as such on the VISCPRO

Status Bar. If you wish to terminate

VI matching, you will need to delete any VI domain(s) using the

Delete

button from the

General Configuration

window. When no domains are

defined, the VI Matcher does not function.

Handling errors

VISCPRO

errors

The miniPV Series instrument software returns three types of errors
during operation: bath errors, fatal errors and tray errors. Bath and tray
errors are sample/tray specific, and may affect test results for a given
sample. Such results will be indicated as invalid. Fatal errors may be
hardware-related, and can produce a

FAULT

condition (see Chapter 5,

Handling fault conditions).