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1. HIGH Level indicators Audible blarm ADJ Project info in data files MATH Na level Marker Time before alarm Low WATCH 4 E STATUS 30 5 High level n 100 AUTO Clear alarm OFF AUTO Affects both Acquire and Multiple slaves tasks SIGNAL SAFE EXIT Marker Level monitoring in Acquire JENE CHECK ena Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Up Fast 7 8 2010 Ji Primary C b DP 05120 10 46 22 slave el 21 CPS Figure 16 1 The Reporting page for selecting optional report formats 59 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual internal standardization accessible through its keyboard and display The Automatic standardization is protected with a critical setting dialog to make sure you know what you are doing 16 5 Level Monitoring The signal level crossing indicators can be enabled on this page When the signal is acquired through using the Acquire page the signal is checked for each sample If the reading is higher than the high level the HIGH lamp is lit on the right edge of the window until the next sample arrives Corresponding operation is done when it is lower than the low level LOW light These settings are saved on the Configuration page Note that the Multiple Slaves page does not have this feature 16 6 Audible Alarm The signal level crossing indicators just mentioned can be connected to an audible alarm and to a speci
2. Task pages use the top line name selector to switch Status light panel con trolled only by the two WATCHes Always vis H to off line and stopping this Always visible ible X program Always visible 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER SEL Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Service AK30 Memory banks STATUS que Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Library HEAD 25 Run Time Filter CHECK STATUS IRMA7 D V1 57MDF 1 sinks INS OVHT OFF P EIER G 5 11442D5K eel 27 6 gt aco uL Usage h 3355 6 Unit Onde riter ETE Meter information BANK UPDATE SETTINGS Checked KBD Checked Lowlevel High level BREAK to STDZE j BRK LIB Status bits for model D Level LEDs CAL BYTEO BYTE1 BYTE2 REFL Power Oper mode Cooling enable COMP Normal Normal DARK MUL Comm s Analog out Cooling status Packet Signal Linearization Quiet boot Cooling linked MULTI OFF Not linked i HELP F1 FREQ Meter filters anei Autotimer Link autotimers BRK suspected LEVELS cach e ADJ Autotimer Web break Web temp LPF pa oru ox Chad T WATCH T autotimer Session start OVHT ALARM ud STATUS OFF NO Clear AUTO Gain locking R
3. iu Match indices 255 ch ine Set Low F Power ET 255 Stop after checking first re REFL 78 255 Mode oe DARK muL piis 1255 Start Stop f NET EXPLORE 255 S NUM p 7 HELP 255 FREQ Now checking slave r r 255 Sample Clear bank ARCH 4 J al d gt gt LEVELS HISTO 255 __ 9 HIGH ADJ eam 1 255 Global commands 1 255 Low WATCH E c m O 0 D0u ih Jj o po 9 9 STATUS z 255 AUTO a press Force packet protocol and wait for five seconds explore the slaves until all exhausted or stop it AUTO use global commands to the right SIGNAL SIE Overlapping addresses can not be resolved Apply Force packet to resolve unclear situations EXIT TEMP 5 Primary CHECK Fato Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE i 0 ast EX us d wm SS eC s Figure 15 1 The Network page showing one slave found which is the primary slave 56 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual the numeric control at the left top corner to scroll and show the rest of the slaves The current Primary slave is indicated here with a LED too This collected data is valid during the session Of course it is not able to reflect any changes in the real world unless you Explore it again The LowPower state of each slave is reflected in this arra
4. 1 67 Decimal Calculator 0 Backspace CE C 4 Js Js RISUS Lo J Ls Down Raw signal Curve 0 1 moisture CALIBRATION IN USE Fast cos Primary slave 12 12 2008 J 1i 1003051 Figure 10 5 The calculator launched to assist in calculating some calibration associated factors This is rarely needed but is there always at hand You can swap between the windows at will 46 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 11 Keyboard Mode Page The Keyboard mode page is very important for meter maintenance It is not available for IRMA 7 model A meters If you suspect that the meter is in Keyboard mode you can Enter Keyboard mode and Exit Keyboard mode to force it to stay in the Packet protocol That may happen occasionally although you do not intentionally use the Keyboard mode at alll The meters do it for about 30 seconds while booting up That is highly important as the meter may have an unknown slave address and if it would go to Packet protocol directly it would be a tremendous task to find out the slave address If the meter stays in the Keyboard mode for a short period of time when starting one can connect any ANSI terminal to it and start communicating with the meterin spite of its incorrect slave address Then it could be changed also in the Communications menu This is th
5. 8 Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS HEAD Composer expert system V0 08 process in order 1 6 For IRMA 7 moisture meters only eT Generate Dry noise Noise center UPLOAD 25 Print Eus PENDING Eje index Clear table D Edi gt 0 02 0 1635 C OVHT ACQ A l S P L wg Generate 3 Update repare LOWP BANK Basis weight gim2 Grado Material max 20 char s Selected index Match Current index J25 GENERAL 1 GENERAL 25 0g TAMD 1 C 1 BREAK STDZE d LIB Range center 36 method Calc caliper um Point Signal Moisture Checkresdng Apply BRK 145 29 55 Ji tjo Er C She Backi Moisture 9 Signal adjust REFL COMP Points use o 0 TAMBUR 2 Je 4 opt 6 opt DARE MUL _ Expert H _Edit _Fine tune gt opt Raw signal Plot O Bas NET Mer T T NUM FRE Q Press F1 for ARCH Help HISTO ADJ LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS LOW AUTO AUTO SIGNAL EE Moisture 95 100 105 110 115 120 125 TEE BER CHECK Fast DOWD CALIBRATION IN USE 10 9 2006 71 E gt 1 GENERAL 80 0g TAM 11 26 23 7 slave dC EPA B 1 09 Figure 12 4 The Composer Expert System page the tambur case percent method Notice the high nonlinearity of the calibration 53 SOFTWARE FOR PR
6. s in Select primary slave S calibration table Figure 8 1 The Multiple slaves page with a sample signal from one meter Change the signal colour by pressing the coloured square near the signal name 38 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 9 Library Page On the Library page you can download the calibration library from the meter save it to a library file load a library file to the program and upload the library to the meter You can also upload and download single materials in the libraries In this way you can tailor the library in the meter or some library file on disk to match your requirements The only way you can affect any material entry here is to change its name You can finally print out the corresponding material entry in full with a graph seen on the screen This may prove useful for your documentation See Figure 9 1 The calibration residing in the meter can also be checked and displayed on the graph to the right To download the meter library press the button DOWNLOAD You can always do this safely no harm is done to the meter Then the library is in the program s memory replacing the otherwise empty library generated at the time of starting the program The library loaded or downloaded during a session is kept in memory until the program is stopped You can save the library to a file by pressing the button Save lib The file format is ASCII text which means you can read the file
7. Main signal Select signals and start Head T o OFF OFF Exp Module Extra T PENDING ACQ Secondary signals _ Acquiring Normal operation Main signal Unit Print Gui D moisture WATCH STATUS AUTO 01 30 08 Down INDEX BA 31 rimary Fast lave C Oe 30 1 2008 A1 Inquire the actual Unit used the by meter Also the Burst mode is in dicated if in use 31 AP Maryvale BRWN Scanner enable button Keyboard mod Caposito STATUS Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms HEAD Lag J 1232 4 t Condition 19 ij SE moisture M OFF 0 00 WebT 0 00 M Exp Mod Extra T Predefined OFF ad Special use Secondary signals DARK HELP LEVELS HIGH Low m SIGNAL 01 30 08 TEMP CALIBRATION IN USE Up est CS em 14 21 34 Signal level cross ing indicators high and low SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual perhaps a few samples Batch size see later Then the data you get on the screen is obtained from the sheets with zero filled gaps and with a true time scale This is very useful for many processes and special measurements The last two buttons in this box are markers for adding subtracting an adjustable shift to the signal They are used for marking the beginning stopping of some event or measuring point important to b
8. 16 Difference channel from Multiple Slaves page channel 16 17 Primary signal from Acquire page model dependent 18 Web temperature from Acquire page or any other secondary signal according to model 19 Head temperature from Acquire page 20 Extra temperature from Acquire page 21 Signal Quality variable from Acquire page You can experiment with the buttons here no harm is done in any case 62 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 18 Autorun This program can be put into the Startup folder of the Windows system so that it will start itself automatically the next time it is booted Before booting it start it manually first and prepare all settings Do some testing to make sure it does exactly what you wish The program starts as usual Make sure you have the license file at its disposal to start correctly You will see the Configuration page Fig 18 1 The important points here are the two buttons Autorun Acquire and Autorun Multiple One of them has to be pressed down before saving the settings and leaving the program for it to start itself automatically Do not leave both of them pressed It is not likely that you wish both tasks to be done 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito AK30 Memory banks Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives
9. Symbols 16 7 Control Files 60 17 Numeric Display Page 61 63 A Abort 43 ACQ 18 26 Acquire Page 16 Adjust signal 42 AK30 11 AK30 Memory Banks 22 Annotation 30 Appendix A 70 Appendix A High Speed Serial Port 69 Appendix B Error Message Dialogs 70 Apply 42 Archives Page 22 Audible Alarm 60 Automatic adjusting 44 Automatic Fine Tuning 42 Automatic Standardization 59 60 Automatic Use 21 Autorun 11 Autorun feature 11 Autoscale Y 21 Autotimer status 7 available slave 56 B Bank4 21 BNK 26 booting up 47 Bring to center 19 Burst count 21 Burst Mode 21 Burst mode 17 21 C Calibration Page 41 Channel 36 Check 36 CHECK STATUS 12 CHECKING 19 Clear 49 clear 39 Clear annotation 31 Clear bank 57 74 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual colour palette dialog 36 Composer expert system 47 Conditional 17 configuration file 66 Configuration Page 9 Configuring the High speed Serial Port 69 70 Conversion for Percent Method 45 Copy T to Bank4 21 Count 17 cursor 19 21 curve colours 36 D Data files 24 data files 9 Datalog 22 58 Date time code key 26 DOWN 39 download 39 Download amp Clear Moist 21 Download amp Clear T 21 dry percent 45 dry weight 49 E emergency 9 Enable 42 entry 39 Explore 56 F F1 7 FAST 42 fast communications 69 FAST DOWN 39 FASTUP 39 Filtering Page 36 Force packet protocol 56 frequency 12 Freq
10. O the vertical bar display shows you when the difference to the target is getting small 42 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual The bar scale is 10 X the target tolerance O the task will end normally within some 10 seconds in FAST mode If unsuccessful it will stop operation eventually You can stop the operation if you press the Abort button There is no need to do anything more after this The table is already in the meter and you can start acquiring data using it Do not use an unnecessarily tight tolerance as it may take a long time to reach the target In good conditions you can achieve good results with tolerances like 0 002 but in field conditions 0 2 is usually sufficient 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS LINE HEAD GET calibration Point Raw signal Linearized signal 2 2 a 5 ae gt Calculator Assumed Mode PENDING 9 j1 0 9838 J 2 1098 moo gt a Linearized signal Target value Points in use TOTAL PERCENT BANK Edit 2 GET Raw signal Raw signal 0 10 LOWP KBD T Target tolerance Cal mode Convert to Mode ae Sch STDZE Apply _ 9 6 method 29 30 4 Print B Speed LIB Edit cali
11. Select either difference or average for the channel difference option or capacitance A B l Unit as checked from l Task status display the slave or saved X earlier l Channel Selector 0 7 Text display of serial l N pumber after checking Scanner utility l Slave address for this enable button l display channel Editable text display for numeric control for mission of this meter count and select ing the triggering ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LC GGER slave Library Calibratich vk Math Keyboard mode Capasito Configuration SN Nee Meter status Ne ire me slaves Numpric Memory Banks Frequency analysis a ae Interval s N KS isdem p LETE l Second ch Signal Lag 3786 Signal j Signal 1 1 ON 0 4 4 gt gt N md Acquirini PENDING c ae mostu motsture xL ACQ e rj Channel E l l 5 il Sipnal A TM c 7 Slave address Unit IRMA7 D V1 0DAV 1 1 6279D5K moisture Count 200 First meter web temp a Trig slave Lov STATUS ON LINE HEAD KBD IRMA 7 D Signals 4 757 MATH LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL 01 08 08 01 08 08 EE Primary CHECK Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Up E 8 1 2008 y y slave eq 36 36 Kodak color 168g OMUTLpont Li
12. 1 4 FRI EQ i Press F1 for ARCH Help HISTO 22 ADI LEVELS WATCH iud HIGH STATUS i ft Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL SAFE EXIT 0 in Moisture 9 Pu CHECK fet D CALIBRATION IN USE up Fe 2 71 Slava gt 1 GENERAL 80 0g TAM MULTIpoint cal 122 Figure 12 3 The Composer Expert System page the sheet samples case 52 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual from the meter Needless to say but this will affect your regular quality control measurements possibly done in the background as you have to change the table Press a few times the button Check reading to get the corresponding moisture value Put some small correction to the Signal adjust control and press Apply button The signal is shifted a little and the resulting moisture value is retrieved You can check the moisture value again for a few times to make sure You can continue iterating like this until the moisture reading matches the nominal value of the sample The calibration table is automatically updated in the meter in this process and pressing of the UPDATE button is not needed anymore The delta value in Signal Adjust field is cleared every time a new table is generated In Fig 12 4 we have a case for comparison showing the effect of using the dry percent method instead of the usual total percent method Make a clear distinction for yourself about these methods
13. CHECK 31 31 AP Maryvale BRWN d library pod Le REFL Print Raw signal 1 0 omg CLOS Down c NN Download Material in PC library _ Fast DARK HELP LEVELS HIGH Materialin meter Raw signal LB Library in meter ADJ MATH WATCH STATUS AUTO AUTO SIGNAL TEMP Curve 0 moisture CALIBRATION INUSE 31 AP Maryvale RM A IND i 3i Fast Down Primary 30 1 2008 slave 14 15 45 N Y Graphical displays of the calibration in the PC library file left and the meter s library entry right Figure 9 1 The Library page 40 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 10 Calibration Page 10 1 Regular Calibration Table Editing Calibrations are usually made at field conditions with known samples or in laboratory conditions for moisture samples In a climate chamber and with a laboratory balance an oven for drying samples is usually required Refer to user s manual of your meter for more details of actually making the calibrations This part of the program allows you to feed in the generated data and to take into use the new table The calibrations consist of point pairs raw signal and signal maximum 10 of them They form together a calibration curve Of these number pairs only a number of points is in use marked Points in use not necessarily all points fed in to the table The rest of the points at the higher mois
14. Iterate this until you are happy with the result close to your target value The table is automatically updated to the meter while doing the adjustment and pressing the Apply button Adjusting affects only a single table in your library The delta value in Signal Adjust field is cleared every time a new table is downloaded from the meter with GET 10 3 Automatic Fine Tuning The box Automatic Adjust does the same thing as in the earlier chapter 10 2 but automatically accurately and fast Refer to chapter 10 2 for the idea and to Figure 10 3 The purpose is to generate an offset to the curve so that it slides up down in the graph so that it gives the correct moisture reading the target value To use the automatic feature do the following O check and select the calibration table you want to adjust make sure the BURST mode is OFF the digital filtering in the meter is MEDIUM SLOW or SPECIAL The Run time filtering in this program should be turned off The meter must not be in LowPower mode O GET the calibration table O set the target value for the moisture O set the target tolerance value unless you are happy with the default setting O select either FAST default or SLOW for speed FAST gives you quick operation but the result may be slightly inaccurate especially if there is significant web noise SLOW takes more samples for averaging them and is more reliable in bad conditions O press Enable to start the Automatic adjusting
15. No automatic saving is done here Press the Print button if a report is needed You can calculate the frequency generated by a rotating roller or a closed loop felt with the calculator on this page Check the machine settings and you get the corresponding frequency There is a cursor belonging to this calculator alone on the graphical display You can select which one of the two frequencies is shown by the cursor This makes life easier for fault diagnosis of a paper machine 33 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms SENE Web speed m s HEAD Last acquired 25 25 Save last acq Save spectra Frequency calculator Signal OFF jo L9 Felt Cylinder Library file 4 PENDING Last stopped Save last stopped ACQ OFF C o Last Bank DL Save last Bank DL Cylinder diam mm ow gt Archive Save archive 7 OFF E EB cursor 100 171 49 281 Last acquired Bank DL Last stopped Bl cursort Bank DL 100 171 49 281 Bank DL BA Calculator 15 9155 Print Archive Bank DL 15 816t 39 532 ii ran Frequency from calculator Hz Amplitude dB H A LEVELS HIGH LOW AUTO SIGNAL TEMP 1 1 1 120 140 160 180 Down
16. OVHT 100 PENDING ACQ 3 OK WITHIN LIMITS 80 LOWP z BANK Head T C 75 ail BREAK KED 27 6 E REASON STDZE ART te Signal Quality Initialize so Initial Reading SQ Low Limit 50 BRK LIB 33 1992 C 3 js 5 40 CAL E REL Freq Hz Running 202 COMP E 403 8 OK 10 DARK MUL 02 _ Diagnostics Signal Quality T CHECK SETTINGS NUM Analog out 1 tip HELP F1 FREQ moisture LEVELS ARCH Analog out 2 fuse CHECK DP STATUS ADJ f _ Jt Signal Quality MATH i Low WATCH WebT ofs STATUS ya DP State DPAddress Initialize AUTO Save Restore 4 OVRHT ALARM CLEAR active sore os i x D AUTO 4 wi 9 ISIGNAL SAFE UPDATE DP SETTINGS EXIT UPDATE SETTINGS FIBRE Oe z General Meter configuration TEMP Pri CHECK Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Up Fast 12 3 2012 J1 nary C gt JC DC Sx 68 SCALINGx100 C EAY BE 2 21 47 PM slave BI 68 a up Figure 19 1 The Service page 65 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual The box below this allows one to check the present selection of the analog outputs and also to change them Edit the selection and then press update The web thermometer offset can be modified here too Overheat alarm situation can be cleared too The next box marked as Profibus DP has a
17. button If you accept this signal for the current point press the Apply button which copies the raw signal value to the signal field Then you have to fill in the corresponding reading for the linearized signal like the moisture value Of course these buttons are active only while editing 10 2 Signal Adjustment Sometimes it is required to do some offset adjustment to an existing calibration table or to fine tune some table just created as in chapter 10 1 or in chapter 12 to make sure it has been done accurately Do this as described below see Figure 10 2 too but first always do GET the table from the meter to start with This is important You need to know the moisture of the sample or web under the meter to complete this Place a sample under the meter and after a few seconds press the button Check in the box Manual Adjust You will see the corresponding signal value in the small numeric display under the Check button If this needs some sort of correction as you happen to know the real linearized signal moisture value value of this sample and know that the current table is otherwise correct you can make an adjustment the raw signal value offset The amount of adjustment is usually very small and is done in the numeric control on top of the button Apply Edit the number and then press the Apply button The adjusted table is reflected in the curve immediately Press the Check button afew times to see the new signal reading
18. not saved for the next session only the data is If you want to keep the settings keep the program running all the time The buttons at the lower edge of the program display are used for checking setting the current material entry in the calibration library You can step up in the index or step down either one entry at a time or ten entries at a time The resulting entry is displayed at the center with information pertaining to it Of course all data and settings located in the meters themselves are always saved in the meters themselves The two most important channel colours are saved as well There is a small indicator light at the top right corner Lag informing the user that the serial port may be a bit slow for the selected interval orange light is predominant Else the light only blinks occasionally If it is on continuously stop the acquisition and increase the interval SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 5 Memory Banks Page Figure 5 1 shows you the looks of the Memory Banks page The memory bank system is built into the meter capable of saving data at the fastest soeed Model D has five independent banks with 4096 5X 1024 samples Series Bankl Bank4 Model A has either one 4096 samples bank Series four 1024 samples banks Bank1 Bank4 independent of each other which cover the same memory area with the Series You can always safely CHECK the memory bank settings recommended The Ban
19. page Settings saveable It turns to orange colour and displays a text Settings locked when you are accessing this page while in ON LINE state The settings are not saved NOTE This software is a licensed product and a license file is required for operating it Contact your dealer or Visilab directly to have it at a reasonable cost and lifetime upgrades at no cost You will receive the license file which needs to be copied to the directory visible on this page to the right If the license file has been found and its contents recognized you can continue running the software If not the program will shut itself off in a few seconds The license is mill wide so you can freely copy it within your company but not outside it Licenses may also be of limited validity After that time the software will not start anymore and you need to buy the license to make it work again There is a message window available for free use The idea is to type in some message and save The settings The next time anyone enters this page will see the message One screenful of text is the maximum amount no novels please 2 1 Note for Multi slave Operation As this software is capable of collecting data from many slaves in a network RS485 LAN or RS232 LAN based on LAN232 product it can flexibly retrieve data from all of them and you can check the configurations of each while running the Multiple slave operation One of the slaves is selected as the Primary slave and
20. 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 KBD OFF j0 on M0108081142191 ACQ 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Multi stop 3 signal ch 5 046 0 093 4 90 5 47 OFF e on channel difference 3 938 0 016 3 90 3 99 Chz Chs Ch Save Ch 1 108 0 096 0 95 1 56 fiter Zerodata Staircase EB Cursor0 1143 0 gt m C gt _ Stamped filename Postfilter between cursors HELP LEVELS HIGH LOW AUTO SIGNAL TEMP 1 1 1 1 REIR PENISE AA re TEETE 0 1 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 2800 3000 3200 3400 3600 3800 1 INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE 8 1 2008 J Primary Fast Down 12 09 15 slave eM w 36 36 Kodak color 168g Figure 6 3 The Archives page with both channel difference and filtered data on channel 7 The difference is from data on channels 5 and 6 28 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Z ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms STATUS Ch4 Ch Average Std dev Min Max ES 25 Last acq 0 Signal or 0 on motos081139130 4c o 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 PENDING Last stop 1 signal chs 1 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 59 OFF 0 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Last multi 2 signal 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 OFF 0 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 BH Multi stop 3 sig
21. 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 OFF J0 o 3 924 0 000 3 92 3 92 Multi stop 3 Signal ch 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 20 OFF 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 B Save Ch7 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 OFF 4 gt Ave fiter 2 Staircase WA SB CoU Stamped filename C 1154 4 0614 Ch4 BB Cursor 875 0 LAcqo 4 t T T T T HELP MATH t t 4 t t LEVELS Postfilter between cursors ADJ WATCH HIGH STATUS LOW AUTO AUTO SIGNAL 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 Samples TEMP 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 2800 3000 3200 3400 3600 3800 4095 Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Ub Fast d Primary dd 8 1 2008 J slave Y C gt w 36 36 Kodak color 168g wc 12 11 55 Figure 6 5 The Archives page with Staircased data on channel 4 The interval is defined by the two cursors 30 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual boxes Hide arrow and Lock name if you wish Try these out to see the effect The annotation is visible in reporting too but is not saved otherwise You can later move the annotation text to a better position by dragging it with the mouse When you do not need the annotation anymore and want to clear it right click on the graph again and select Clear annotation or Clear All annotations LOnverc Apply ec gt pe method TOTAL PERCENT
22. Archives page consist of Last Acquired Last stopped Acquired Last Multiple slaves and Last Multiple slaves stopped The data is carried directly from the corresponding pages without any intermediate files The Last signals are true real time signals acquired and the stopped signals are those which are stopped either manually or otherwise You also have a signal selector to the right of each of the corresponding channel buttons You can select any of the available signals with the corresponding name to the right If the signal is not acquired it is not displayed though its name is Nonexistent signals are replaced with zero arrays The first one is the real time data which can be observed to progress all the time You can select it from the original set of Moisture or other primary signal like gloss Web temperature or CAP B Head temperature Expansion module or Extra temperature with the small numerical selector The second channel is the last stopped acquired signal The third one is the selected channel from the Multiple slave operation and the fourth is the last stopped data from the Multiple slave operation ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms STATUS Last acq 0 Signal Ch4 Ch Average Std
23. CALIBRATION IN USE Fast xus E 7 slave C BB gt C 36 36 Kodak color 168g s 119 4 Figure 7 3 The Frequency Analysis page The calculator uses the cylinder diam eter library option page with the cylinder diameters or felt lengths defined and the web speed above it The data can be edited and saved to a file The maximum number of items is 100 Select the item to be either a felt or a cylinder You can also give some descriptor to each line 35 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 8 Multiple Slaves Page This page is very similar to Acquire page You can acquire data from up to eight meters and their web thermometers also with full assignment of each channel The slave addresses are needed here to make a difference between the meters The collected data may be made visible on Archives and Histograms pages The operating principle is the same as with the Acquire page First make your selections concerning the meters and press the large leftmost button to start collecting data The time interval should also be checked before starting to acquire data Do not offer too short intervals if you have several slaves and you wish to have both signals from each slave The serial port at 9600 bauds can usually support about 10 to 15 samples s If you wish to have all eight channels with both signals 16 signals in all the smallest working interval would likely be 0 65 s If you change the speed to High Sp
24. IRMA7Advanced and IRMA7Advanced LE V4 11 Selection of signals were added to histograms archives and frequency analysis You can now select any of the signals on Acquire page V4 12 renamed Advanced Additions Marker height is now adjustable and can be saved with other settings Program is now model sensitive and adjusts itself according to model selection of the primary slave It also responds to the model selection made on Multiple slaves page The Archives Histograms and Frequency analysis pages have channel selectors for each of the Ac quire page signals collected including the stopped signals if available at all Autorun feature has been extended to Advanced program too One can preconfigure either the Acquire or the Multiple slaves task save the settings and put the program shortcut into Startup folder of the operating system The program is then starred automatically when the PC is booted up The program starts data acquisition as configured earlier after a delay of 30 seconds to make sure the slaves have all booted up too All signals measurement units and other features are now model sensitive Select the product model on the Configuration page and on Multiple Slaves page Incorrect model is not completely disastrous but may produce incompatible label and units When referring to any other model instead of model A may cause unexpected delays and messages like No response A global command Force Packet Protocol is sent to all slaves
25. PC Use only ports COMI COM64 or ASRL1 64 depending on your system There are USB to RS232 adapters available for Windows operating system in case you do not have any RS232 ports in your PC Incorrect port selection will cause error messages when you try to start using the software Use the arrow down button at the right end of the selector to choose from the list of available ports This setting is saved but it is wise if you do check it Refer to Figure 2 1 The product models have slightly differing sets of packet protocol commands IRMA 7 model A has small subset of all commands and most other models have the complete set except the level threshold commands specific for model A Using features not intended for your meter cause no serious trouble but mostly incorrect settings are displayed and no true actions are taken All the most important commands like data acquisition library material and memory banks are common to all models and function equally If your model D meter has an old embedded software some of the latest features may not work You will soon find this out when visiting the Meter status page Upgrading the software is recommended To avoid any annoying surprises inform the program that you have an older version of internal software by pressing down the button Old SW in meter Note that model A is limited in features but all revisions work alike Model D SW V1 57MDF or newer is required for full support Upgrading is recommende
26. PERCENT name max 20 char s voflute 112 Create Annotation Manual Annotation Name ode Lock Style C Hide Arrow C Lock Name NN Convert to Made 965 method 0 TOTAL PERCENT ria aujuz Apply iaterial name max 20 char s sturovoflute 112 Convert Apply Convert Percent Mode Manual adjus a g Figure 6 6 The Annotation dialog Set the options and click OK The second image after filling in some text 31 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 7 Frequency Analysis Page You can perform Fast Fourier Transform FFT to the signals you have acquired either in real time in the Acquire operation or use some data file The system tries to recognize the time interval of the samples and uses that as the basic parameter for the transform For mathematical background see literature about FFT and signal analysis The soectrum analysis is used for recognizing any periodical phenomena in the signal having also a rather accurate quantitative capability Extra peaks in the spectrum usually point to some faults in the paper machine or other production machine like a damaged roller or faulty steam box The peak frequency indicates the vibration source which can A set of small pages in the Calculator for gen Select signal Its name is erating a visible and selectable frequency cur displayed to the right sor on the graphical disp
27. V Unauthorized use will be prosecuted BEC Copyright C Visilab Signal Technologies Oy Finland All rights reserved Ucense info temp The selectors for Autorun for the two optional tasks Figure 18 1 The Configuration page with buttons for the Autorun feature 63 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual at the same time automatically unless you really want it Go to the corresponding page Multiple slaves or Acquire to check all pertinent settings Check that the acquisition really works in your way Leave the settings as is but turn off the acquisition Check the buttons on the Configuration page save the settings and exit The next time the program is started it will start running the selected acquisition task after a delay of some 30 seconds This is to make sure that the meters have booted up and are presumably in packet protocol mode not in keyboard mode anymore even if there was a power breakage in between You can always interfere with the program after the 30 s delay and starting of acquisition The program behaves as normal after that If the numerical display page is required turn it on and use it as usual The main purpose of this program is to collect data in unmanned conditions automatically The meters and sensors of Visilab are independent and operate automatically too and are always ready to deliver data via any digital interface after boot
28. always when the ON LINE is made effective by pressing the button Presumably all slaves are in The packet protocol mode after a few seconds from this The page order was revised to reflect better the practical use The unit used is now written to every data file at the tailer text part The unit can now be inquired in the Acquire page A model sensitive cover is added to the Status page to prevent using incompatible commands and status requests A help system is now avail able Make sure you have some default HTML browser in your PC including some default PDF file reader In practice a PDF copy of this document is shown in a separate window To activate help press the F1 key The stop key has been protected against untimely pressing while you are still ON LINE The posffiltering has fixed the phase shift caused by each filtering action to the signal The filtering has been made more powerful The Network page has now an indicator for the current Primary slave among the slaves detected Reporting has been made model sensitive too The file names created in Multiple slaves operation are now SAnnnn and SBnnnn V4 15 2 2 2005 The new LV run time kernel V7 1 1 was taken into use Simple scanner support is added to both Acquire and Multiple slaves V4 16 2 14 5 The high speed serial port is taken into use V4 20 5 9 5 PENDING LED added for Histograms Archives Numeric display and Frequency analy sis pages active when any archive file is open The Numeric
29. apply channels 0 7 to both of them As an extra feature you can also use indices 8 15 for both of them to retrieve any of the corresponding web temperature or signal B channels If no data appears you have not selected that particular channel for data acquisition see page Multiple slaves Index 16 is left for the calculated channel difference obtained in Multiple slaves Channels A 7 are for retrieving saved files Press the button and you will be asked to point out the file from a folder which you would like to open When not needed anymore press the channel button again and the file and its data disappear No changes are made to the file Channel 7 has double use Regularly it is used for retrieving files in the way channel 4 to 6 are If you press first the button marked as Ch7 Ch5 Ch you will get a channel difference with the data of channels 5 and 6 subtracted from eachother Pressing Save Ch7 will save the resulting data to a new stamped file 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms pio Last acq 0 Signal Ch4 ch Average Std dev Min Max BERD or 5o 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 eux PENDING Last stop 1 signal chs 1 0000 0 000 0 00 0 00 orm ijo smotososizo7414 cuy 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 BANK Last multi 2 signal Ch6
30. button for making the fieldbus connection active or inactive The DP slave address is by default 3 but can be changed here When any changes are made it is required that you press the Initialize button and update Make the changes first and after updating them do the initialization The last box has two buttons for downloading the meter s internal configuration data which are highly important for proper operation You can Download and save it by pressing Save No harm is ever done with this one Using the Restore key is critical and is protected against careless use It will read a configuration file type CFG saved earlier by you and upload it to the meter That will replace the meter s settings If the settings are incorrect your meter will not work properly anymore and you need to find the correct configuration file to restore it to working condition It is wise to save the meter configuration occasionally to make sure that you have current settings available if some meter crashing occurs The purpose of restoring the configuration is to get the meter running again after having some sort of misuse serious crash or damage 66 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 20 OFF LINE Use The Advanced software is designed to be used with any of the products we currently have in production Without a meter connected to the PC and the program delays invalid data ineffective commands etc will appear on some of the
31. dev Min Max HEAD OFF 0 on M0108081139130 ACQ 0 0 000 0 00 0 00 eu e PENDING Last stop 1 Signal chs 1 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 OVHT ACQ OFF Jo OFF 2 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 BANK Last multi 2 signal ch 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 KBD OFF jo OFF 4 4 045 0 038 3 96 4 13 EPRI F 2 BREAK STDZE Multi stop 3 signal ch 5 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Laco MEN FF e OFF jo o 6 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 ipi NH Tum Ch7 ChS Ch6 Save Ch 7 0000 0 000 0 00 0 00 uuo NN CAL OFF gt ch4 7 filter Zerodata Staircase usage nau REFL COMP 88 cursoro 1143 405 4 LN X gt gt ch4 MUL chit Save Stamped filename cs E DARK Bl cursor 886 0 E ce NET LAcqO amp com Postfilter between cursors c AN NUM FREQ ll HISTO ADJ MATH LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL SAFE EXIT 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 TEMP 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 2800 3000 3200 3400 3600 3800 CHECK Fast Down INDEX Up Fast Xxx UM Ai slave 4 gt em lt _ gt 36 36 Kodak color 168g L9 gt Figure 6 2 The Archives page with filtered data on channel 4 Filtering interval is defined by the two cursors 27 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual They both have numeric channel selectors besides the buttons You can press the control without deactivating the channel button thus making it quicker to compare various data You can
32. everything you see is what you get All actions are started by pressing buttons and meter status is indicated with various LEDs You are using a virtual instrument in your PC though there is a true instrument behind it producing the data at the other end of the communication cable 1 1 Installation of the PC program Important Notice for Vista and Windows 8 7 Users Before starting it is important to make sure you have administrator s rights in your PC to install programs read and write files etc with full and widest possible rights If not ask your computer manager to do this phase for you or switch the PC user to an administrator It is possible that after a successful installation you encounter strange error messages when files are tried to be saved to a hard disk These problems are mostly due to insufficient file writing rights If it is about a data file saving when the data Acquisition is stopped the system refuses to open a file for writing You have as alternatives increasing the user rights or separately allowing full file rights to that particular folder you are trying to access You can also find another folder for file saving which is not limited in access e g My Documents My Folders etc Also if right after starting the program an error message appears it is likely from a missing configuration file of the program itself This is not dangerous at all since you are about to set up the program features first and then to save the conf
33. have at least 250 MB of memory available Hard disk space of 500 MB is required for installation and starting the program Archives will most likely require more space A 2000 MHz Pentium is the minimum CPU requirement but higher is recommended for quicker operation in various tasks especially for Vista users The minimum screen size required by this program is 1024 x 768 pixels Smaller screens will lead to cumbersome use of the program and larger screens allow easier use of other programs at the same time 1 3 Style Issues All oval buttons at any page start some action and are not left pressed down except for a limited time All rectangular buttons are settings which are either left as pressed down or are later updated by the program to reflect the status of the meter The indicator lights are statuses read from the meter or generated by the program and can not be changed by the user directly Typically they have either a grey or orange colour In some special cases the colour may be red to warn the user of some problem There are some large oval buttons at several pages whose colour when pressed down is bright yellow instead of the regular orange They are also left at their state until the user changes them himself These buttons are used for example for watching the status LEDs or the Autotimer status at the meter This means polling data from the meter at regular time intervals Also the two Acquisition operations have buttons like this The
34. into e g some spreadsheet program for further studying Note however that the spreadsheet file formats are not in general compatible with this software If you want to make any changes to the library file and return it back to the meter care should be exercised and still there is a risk of damaging the file into unreadable state Try to keep the file format as the original text format all the way Old fashioned plain ASCII text editors are more reliable in this respect Uploading a library to the meter is a critical operation asit will wipe away the old library in the meter Unless you know exactly what you are doing you may destroy the library It is advised to keep copies of the original library at safe locations to prevent any disaster The same danger lies in uploading single material entries but the damage is not total Be careful You can check the current library name in the meter at any time in the box Material in meter CHECK No harm is done If you wish to edit the name do it in the text field and then send the new name to the meter by pressing SET Uploading or Downloading a library file can be interrupted if any problems are found by pressing the Abort library transfer button The rest of the library entries are not transferred If a library was to be downloaded the rest of the entries are replaced with the earlier downloaded data or empty entries Uploading a material requires a little bit more mouse exercise First check the curr
35. pages The only pages which can be used effectively are Archives Frequency analysis Mathematics and Histograms This applies as well to using the software with any other legal instruments like Caposito etc When using these pages refer only to existing data files not to any meter signals 67 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 21 Note for Users This being a new version of software it is recognized the need of having user feedback If you ever meet any bugs or problems with this software check first our web site to see if the latest version available there has this bug fixed You can then download that version Else you can report all problems to us at support visilab fi Thank you for your cooperation 68 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 22 Appendix A High Speed Serial Port 22 1 1 Configuring the High speed Serial Port The fast serial port is taken into use in the following way Note carefully if your meters to be connected are to be operated with this software simultaneously Multiple slaves task itis required that all of the meters are configured either as High speed or Normal but not mixed This makes life simpler and hard to solve problems are avoided First connect the meter alone into the PC and start the software as before If you have the LAN232 sensor networking module in use disconnect it and connect the meter s serial cable directly to the PC
36. purpose of this is to indicate the user to change himself the button s state or the operation Each of these special buttons have an indicator light at The left edge ofthe display to remind of their use a pending operation There are also LEDs for other operations whose momentary operation may take a longer time to finish like downloading a library The Keyboard mode should be activated only when all these LEDs are off Else you will get a number of strange messages as other operations are still trying to communicate with the meter When the Keyboard mode is in use its own LED is lit and no other operation should be attempted at the same time All products communicate with either the Packet protocol or as an ANSI terminal These modes being completely incompatible Model A is an exception to this as it does not have this feature It has its own fixed keyboard and display for this purpose It is always working in Packet protocol Using the Keyboard mode is usually not required at all with all of Visilab s sensor products Changing the slave address is the only task which may come into play Help If you are in a trouble while using this program try pressing the Fl key a function key in your keyboard or click the square Help button on vertical bar If you have a default HTML browser and a default PDF file reader available this manual and many others are available for you Editing The managing and editing of any items in the dialogs is as other
37. supported Reporting is now enhanced a little The Acquire timing is now made very accurate both in small time scale and long term measurements A companion program Moisture Profiler is published It is very similar to this but with mainly scanner features stressed V5 57 Signal Quality and Diagnostics taken into use for model D meters V5 58 added features to support the FrontColour product family V5 75 multiple minor feature additions SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Contents 1 Introduction 6 1 1 Installation of the PC program 6 Important Notice for Vista and Windows 8 7 Users 6 1 2 System Requirements 7 1 3 Style Issues 7 2 Configuration Page 9 2 1 Note for Multi slave Operation 11 2 2 Autorun Feature 11 2 3 1 High speed Serial Port 11 Meter Status Page 12 Acquire Page 16 Memory Banks Page 19 5 1 Manual Operation 19 5 2 Automatic Use 21 5 3 Burst Mode 21 5 4 AK30 Memory Banks 22 Archives Page and Filtering 22 6 1 Data files 24 Frequency Analysis Page 52 Multiple Slaves Page 36 Library Page 39 O Calibration Page 41 10 1 Regular Calibration Table Editing 41 10 2 Signal Adjustment 42 10 5 Automatic Fine Tuning 42 10 4 Method for Percent Calculation 45 10 5 Conversion for Percent Method 45 11 Keyboard Mode Page 47 12 Composer Exper
38. the moisture content of a sample you have put in front of the meter at the nominal working distance You have to know the real moisture of the sample to finish this Refer to Calibration page if you want to use a more sophisticated Automatic fine tuning First you have to match the table indices new table entry and the current table entry in the meter Press the button Match Only after that you will be able to get the proper moisture value 3 Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS ON LINE HEAD Composer expert system V0 08 process in order 1 6 For IRMA 7 moisture meters only f gt Generate Dry noise Noise center UPLOAD 5 A rinl PENDING Select index Clear table Ti Edt 0 06505 0 2085 OVHT aca 1 VL 1 _ 3 5 Prepare ti Generate Update Ium BANK KS Basis weight Grade Material max 20 char s Selected index Match Current index 925 2 GENERAL 1 GENERAL 25 09 2HSH 1 LA 1 BREAK STDZE a LIE Range center 3 method Calc caliper um Point Moisture ists Ct Apply BRK 5145 TOTAL 59 1 E 0 9865 0 CAL Moisture EE adjust REFL COMP ee N of sheets Calc BW g m2 Points in use 0 0 SHEETS 50 E 3 2 fe 4 opt 6 opt DARK MUL Expert Edit Fine tune Raw signal Plot 0 g mu
39. the rest of them are just slaves The primary slave is used in all other pages of the program except the Multiple slaves page In other words you can start data acquisition on the Multiple slaves page for any slaves and at the same time you canselect freely the primary slave and use any of the other tasks available with that particular slave with only natural restrictions This means that you can acquire data simultaneously from up to nine slaves The primary slave address is assigned at the bottom of the display Do not change the address while you are already doing something with that slave except the Multiple slaves page Else you may get glitches in signals or other unwanted results The Acquire task when started will use the same primary slave address until it is stopped Then you can change the slave and start again 2 2 Autorun Feature Refer to chapter 18 for information on how to use the Autorun feature Please do not turn it on before you know how to use it 2 3 1 High speed Serial Port The present on line moisture meters AK50 IRMA 7 model D portable meter AK30 and process moisture meter AK40 have a high speed serial port for communications to a PC The bit rate is 115200 bauds and gives an increase in data transmission in many situations compared to the NORMAL 9600 baudas It means you can get more samples per second The price to be paid here is that you can no longer have up to 40 m long legs in the RS232 cable but up to 15 m
40. 143274 SPELOG 03 07 2004 11 43 AM 32 871 M0307041143274 SPEXML 03 07 2004 11 43 AM 90 000 MSPE0307041143275 LVM 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 29 926 T0307041141553 BNK 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 66 560 T0307041141553 BNKLOG 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 29 782 T0307041141553 BNKXML 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 707 202 T0307041141553 LVM 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 43 T0307041142163 BNK 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 123 T0307041142163 BNKLOG 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 86 T0307041142163 BNKXML 03 07 2004 11 42 AM 405 T0307041142163 LVM You may get a large number of files in the worst case Therefore it is good to know how to recognize them The file name coding consists of a set of letters a date time numbering and a file type coding The key to codes are as follows 24 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Buttons for enabling calcu lated channel difference between 5 and 6 differ ence is delivered to chan Select signal Its name is dis played to the right 9 nel 7 Buttons for executin Buttons for dia MA 9 selecting I postfiltering staircasing or ze roing to data one of chan sources of data l Ld nels 4 to 7 affecting only data I between the cursors result can be saved to a file ADVANCED PROCESS S NSOR DATA LOGGER 2 l I Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks
41. 5m at 115200 bauds You can take the high speed operation into use if your meter supports it Check your meter s manuals to find out If it doesn t contact Visilab or your nearest dealer to send the meter for upgrading at a very low cost We can make a quick checkup for the meter at the same time Before taking into use the high speed feature read this manual first and prepare your system to operate normally with the Normal speed Then you are ready to take the next step to high speed and read the Appendix A SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 3 Meter Status Page You can quickly check the meter settings by selecting the Meter status page There you can press the CHECK STATUS key to see all information possible of your meter The amount of data is very limited for model A as its operation is mainly done with the built in keyboard and the menu system In that case this page has aset of covers All other product models have a small cover over the small portion which is model A specific You can see the meter s serial number at the leftmost corner showing the embedded software version too This same box marked as Meter information contains data which can be retrieved from all meter models The button Low power reflects the powering status of the meter If you wish to turn the meter into Low power state press this button and then press UPDATE SETTINGS key The following state is again an indication of the re
42. 6 Kodak color 168g 2 CHECK S Linearized signal 0 00365 Signal adjust 0 425 Apply Manual adjust Frequency analysis Histograms Caposito aramus HEAD 2 Enable 25 Target value 3 95 Target tolerance 0 002 Speed m Difference Automatic adjust s Abort LEVELS HIGH LOW AUTO SIGNAL TEMP moisture Fast 12 58 14 Figure 10 3 The Calibration page when doing Automatic adjusting 44 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 10 4 Method for Percent Calculation There are two methods in general use total percent most usual and dry percent rare In the first the calculation is referred to the current total weight and in the latter it is referred to the dry weight These methods differ quite a lot from each other in spite of their similarities The percent readings are related to each other in the following ways ptotal pdry 100 pdry 100 and pdry ptotal 100 100 ptotal The relationship is very nonlinear Since the IRMA 7 moisture meters are linear by nature when using The total percent method using calibrations defined as dry percent for them will result in highly nonlinear calibrations 10 5 Conversion for Percent Method On this page you can convert a calibration originally made with one method to another GET the material from the meter select the new mode from the lower button and press the Convert button This will complete the conv
43. ATUS 77 Low AUTO EIE Hid 4 AUTO SOLERE SET a EET S NE RET IRSE ag aa se US 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 SIGNAL SAFE EXIT TEMP moisture Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE TRES 8 1 2008 Hi Dey gt cT 13 01 03 5 slave C 73 Sturovoflute 112 c 01 Figure 10 4 The dry percent method applied as a conversion to assumed total percent method table 45 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode STATUS HEAD Point Rewsignal Linearized signal 2 aea 2 CHECK pes ed Enable _ 15 Boc Calculator Assumed Mode ja 0 9838 3r 1098 CHE ES Points in use OTAL PERCENT Linearized signal Ecc value m Ed O Am GET Raw signal Raw signal 10 0 J Jio j4 e 2 0 CHANT EGINGUR Signal adjust tolerance Convert to Mode r mu 35 method yp Joa Edit calibration max 20 char s ees tf BBA UPDATE 4CCSilki30g Convert Apply C Editing Convert Percent Mode Manual adjust Automatic
44. E SETTINGS Meter information 7 r Checked KBD Checked Low level High level BREAK Vo tio STDZE gt 2 BRK uR Status bits for model D only E CAL BYTEO BYTE1 BYTE2 REFL Power Oper mode Cooling enable Sou Normal Normal DARK MUL Comm s Analog out Cooling status NET Packet P Signal NUM Linearization Quiet boot Cooling linked OFF Not linked il HELP F1 FREQ MULTE Meter filters n ARCH Autotimer Link autotimers BRK suspected LEVELS Batch wee NO HIGH ADJ Autotimer Web break Web temp LPF WATCH T autotimer Session start OVHT ALARM STATUS OFF NO Clear AUTO Gain locking Reflective Composer Autoranging NO A WATCH sue Lamp Dark Exp mod STATUS LEDS SIGNAL SAFE OK NO None Bun EXIT 1 A Status bytes TEMP E esc 4 Primary E fut Dem neni Nm INUSE E T GP Imc SO Pic l S Change the l M lt primary slave S 7 address Me J Check the current S TEE urrent materiai index material index name d cclibrati Ch th 1 1 name ange the curren and calibration mode 9 mode material by increasing decreasing the index Figure 3 2 The Meter status page for checking the primary slave for IRMA 7 model A and AK30 only 14 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual List of pending operations Turn them off at each perti nent task page before going
45. Frequency analysis Histograms STATUS n xx 0 al j ch4 Ch Average Std dev Min Max A HEAD p n M0108081156261 BNK Series 0 3 939 0 017 l 3 88 3 98 m BD 25 PENDING Las ud gt ch 1 0000 0 000 I 0 00 0 00 OVHT ACQ as Tt pre 2 0 000 0 000 l 0 00 0 00 BANK Last multi 2 2 h 6 0 000 0 000 l 0 00 0 00 patel KBD OFF 0 OFF 3 89 0 010 3 88 3 91 913 Lord je s 1 BA BREAK STDZE Multi stop 3 Sigfal ch 5 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Laco BA iB OFF jo OFF 6 0 000 o oo 0 00 0 00 ipi EN Xs Ch7 ChSfh6 Save Ch 0 000 0 00 0 00 0 00 an 7 f muz M comp Ch4 7 Ave E Zerodata Staircase NN REFL 1329 3 8786 m c4 9 MUL ch4 Save Stamped Filename chs DARK ER Cursor1 751 3 9471 cs EX NET LAcq amp gt Postfilter between cursors c NUM Signals 5 FREQ AREE m Tr AU Ur adr dee era a pL en RON KS HELP 3 5 1 1 t 4 t HISTO ADJ MATH 25 9 T p T T T T T LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS Low ER 1 5 AUTO T T 4 SIGNAL SAFE E 1 1 1 D 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 i 1 1 1 Samples TEMP 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 2800 3000 3200 3400 3600 3800 4095 CALIBRATION IN USE M Primary CHECK Fast Down INDEX Up Fast slave V LI 36 36 Kodak color 168g EU Date and time fields Figure 6 1 The Arc
46. INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE x Primary Up 8 1 2008 E 12 17 27 3 slave bl C Case E Figure 7 2 The Frequency Analysis page The calculator uses cylinder option page with the cylinder diameter defined and the web speed above it 34 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 2 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Web speed m s HEAD 23 2 25 Last acquired Signal Save last acq Save spectra V Felt Cylinder Library file Last stopped Save last stopped ACQ OFF gt me 2 BANK Last Bank DL Save last Bank DL File Found in Folder Clear lib KBD gt ya gt Archive Save archive OFF Frequency calculator Load library q C IRMA cylinders i7L Save lib Diameter mm Feltlength m Type 500 Edit line BA cursor 100 171 49 281 a 2 Cylinder Last acquired Bank DL Desc Last stopped Bl cursort Bank DL 100 171 49 281 Bank DL BB Calculator 14 7696 Print Archive S Bank DL cures Frequency from calculator Hz Pw Amplitude dB 4 gt linde ider ADJ MATH WATCH STATUS AUTO AUTO SIGNAL TEMP 1 1 1 80 120 140 Primary CHECK Fast Down INDEX
47. If your intention was to work with a slave already in Keyboard mode do not be surprised by this 47 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Buttons for entering and exiting the Keyboard mode They are required to be used in this order You can do nothing else with this pro gram while being in the keyboard mode ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR LOGGER Configuration Lm Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library css Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS HEAD Direct keyboard to Br meter IRMA 7 model 4 excluded PENDING l Stop all other pending operations before 1 entering the Keyboard mode Keyboard mode and Exit Also if data transfer KBD error messages appear this is the way to solve it You can also apply the Force packet protocol BANK Enter Keyboard Mode If the meter seems unresponsive Enter l button on Network page for this purpose T 3 Make sure you have a proper connection to a Series 20C working meter before trying to do any further troubleshooting Before continuing with other 8 operations make sure the PENDING Keyboard light is OFF 35 Kodhk Color 84g F Coy Ses 4x20 LCD 4 Cb Exit Keyboard Mode You can use any keys in Keyboard mode to communicate with the process sensor Especially you have KEYS IN MEASUREMENT STATE ESC Up in Menu 9 Redispla
48. Make sure you can find the meter in the Network task Enter to the Keyboard mode and go to the meter s internal menu system This applies to all products and models involved Go to m Menu 8 Comm s Communications submenu and you will see the following text or something very similar LAN Settings 1 Slave node 1 1 2 Master node 0 0 7 Quiet boot Y 9 Speed 9600 Note If your meter does not have the lowest line at all your meter is not capable of operating at high speed Press 9 to change the speed to 38400 HIGH SPEED 115200 TOP SPEED or back to 9600 NORMAL Exit this menu by pressing ESC as usual You will se the following text Changing the speed Prepare PC SW and LAN232 etc Press a key Press some key like the space bar and Exit the Keyboard mode with the corresponding button Your meter is now prepared for the high speed but your program is not Turn off the power from the meter for a few seconds to let it restart Go OFF LINE and on the Configuration page Fig 1 press the Port speed button to change it to High speed Save the settings and you are ready to apply the new high speed communications Go to Network page to find the meter From now on you are working with the fast communications If you have other meters which require the same configuration repeat the earlier steps from the Normal speed operation to high speed operation one meter at a time If you have the LAN232 sensor networking module in use toggle its N
49. Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms SMS HEAD 25 Yellow items are required Use only ports COMI to COMIO or ASRL1 10 t d Changed settings are effective only OVHT PENDING Asynchronous serial part E after entering OFF LINE first The primary ACQ L 4 TOP SPEED 115200 slave address can always be changed in the SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES o numeric control at the bottom of the display LOWP BANK This program works in Windows 2000 XP Vista Model Primary slave address O nt ae Advanced 5 29 DATA LOGGING el sf AK30 gi does nothing in the background unless you Build LV2003 BREAK explicitly ask it to do For best display make alee Pre 2005 SW in meter sure you have the screen font Courier New available in Windows BRK LIB Settings saveable REGISTERED TO Tum Refer to www visilab fi For latest information ssa EECUENSTET 4 REFL Library fie path at NOT FOR PUBLIC USE COMP MUL 4 User editable fields have a lighter background Serial Dare 38756C8452A34D78FD2EE448D985EA NET Data file path NUM cilirmaz dat amp No message this time FREQ License ril ARCH J 46 Control file path VALID 129619000 AM Hsu HISTO c Virma7lctl i HIGH 2 Expected license file location ADJ C Program Files advancedilicense ini MATH IP LOW WATCH Acquire Multiple slaves STATUS Lv vo AUTO OK 4 Autokun starting Message Save settings OK 4 AUTO l Autorun gm ta ere
50. OCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 14 Mathematics Page On this page you can convert earlier acquired signals to be recalibrated or having a shift in signal The need may arise if measurements are done accidentally using an incorrect calibration Shifting consists of scaling and adding an offset Pure rescaling is useful when you have obtained the raw signal which is usually scaled up with 100 0 to get more significant figures To make it a true raw signal one has to rescale the data with 0 0100 or divide it by 100 14 1 Restoring Using the signal restoration is easy First load a library file from the hard disk or download the library from the meter in question The same library is used in this task If the original incorrect calibration used in measurements and the correct one are notin the same library do some library manipulation first to let them reside in the same library Then return to the Math page again Press the Original file button to select an archive file to be restored The corresponding data is shown Press the Restore button to activate recalculation of the signal which is displayed also Select the Old index used to match the original index and the New index to match the intended table Material names are shown to avoid any mistakes The restored signal data can be saved by Select calibrations i i Used in the original Activate read Activate re ing of a source storing a and the one it should data
51. STDZE Speed Print gt Edit material name max 20 char s FAST UPDATE 36 Kodak color 168g _ gt LIB Apply mo Manual adjust Convert Abort Difference Automatic adjust CAL COMP Convert Percent Mode Calibration Eating MUL NET NUM FREQ ARCH HISTO ADJ MATH LEVELS HIGH WATCH STATUS Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL TEMP moisture Curve 0 Raw signal CALIBRATION IN USE Fast INDEX 36 CHECK Down Primary 12 54 41 slave 36 Kodak color 168g 8 1 2008 Figure 10 2 The Calibration page when doing manual adjusting ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER PENDING ACQ BANK KBD STDZE LIB CAL COMP MUL NET NUM FREQ ARCH HISTO 0 WATCH STATUS AUTO 8 1 2008 Configuration Library GET material wel Edit gt UPDATE LJ Calibration Raw signal Reporting Calibration Point 1 Points in Network Meter status Composer Raw signal Linearized signal 0 955299 1 286 S GET Raw signal Raw signal gt 0 Cal mode Editing Primary slave Apply We Edit material name max 20 char s 36 Kodak color 168g Fast Acquire C 36 Multiple slaves Math INDEX Archives Numeric Memory Banks Keyboard mode 2 Assumed Mode 36 method TOTAL PERCENT Convert to Mode method Convert Percent Mode CALIBRATION IN USE 3
52. V SI LAB Advanced Software for all Moisture Meters and Sensors SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES USER S MANUAL PC PROGRAM FOR WINDOWS 8 7 Vista XP AND FUTURE VERSIONS Advanced Program For All Models V5 75 This program supports all products of Visilab like AK30 AK40 AK50 FrontColour 5 and 7 IRMA 7 moisture meters Manual printed in Finland 2015 49 PART 700197 Copyright 2015 Visilat Signal Technologies Oy Visilab Signal Technologies Oy Address Tel e mail Keskustie 15 358 45 635 4885 info visilab fi Fl O7560 PUKKILA Y 0631208 0 ALV Rek AAA rated FINLAND VAT FI06312080 M nts l Reg 365 258 www visilab fi SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Revision History V4 00 the production version released in April 2004 V4 03 8 1 2004 the asynchronous port selection can now be saved with other parameters on the Configuration page Math page and Network page added V4 06 Windows 98 support removed postfilter for archived data added text field for multiple slaves settings new license file format and limited time licenses a cursor for frequency analysis calculator added difference of two channels added to multiple slaves with data shown on histo grams and archives pages channel difference also as a postoperation on archives page inter rupt possibility added to memory bank downloads and library file uploads downloads V4 10 The Numeric display page was added to both program versions
53. You will then see the text messages and are able to enter the menu system as before Change the address and Exit Keyboard mode If you are too slow in intercepting there are no messages if the QUIET BOOT setting is YES If you have a local RS232 or RS485 based network of meters you absolutely need the QUIET BOOT to be set as YES else the meters will force eachother to stay in the Keyboard mode forever by sending messages to the network That would also mute the master of the network PC Refer to the user s manual for details Note Do not be too hasty in expecting the system to recover from the Keyboard mode This is especially important if any problems appear There may have been some sort of packet protocol error just before you tried to enter it like an invalid slave address or a slave has just booted up andis receiving commands without understanding them That is because it is still in Keyboard mode and stays there The program seems sluggish and nothing seems to work Press the Exit keyboard mode button and wait for a minute or two This is because the faulty slave s menu system is still responding to a number of commands and it will try to send back a lot of text When it finally receives the latest command it will rectify the situation itself and operation will continue in normal order The current program version sends a global command Force to packet protocol every time you go ON LINE to make sure all slaves are in a controlled state
54. ame KBD Lx emo 5M0108081309285 CNV BREAK Print li eu Restoring Openjdownload a library first Shifting LIB BRK Average Std dev Min Max CAL BE cursor0 830 3 9243 Original 3 93 0 014 3 90 3 97 REFL Original Restored 3 93 0 014 3 90 3 97 Orignal BE cursor 378 3 9243 MUL Bae Original Shifted 4 93 0 014 4 90 4 97 Restored MENS DARK 5914 NET Signals Shifted MEI 5 5 NUM 5 ARCH HELP HISTO LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS LOW AUTO AUTO SIGNAL SAFE ced Sample TEMP 4095 Es CHECK zu Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Up Fast 8 1 2008 J1 ma 73 Sturovoflute 112 13 09 31 slave gt gt 2 73 urovoflute E gt Figure 14 2 The Math page with a signal shifting example 55 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 15 Network Page When several meters are connected situations arise where one or more of the meters seem to be inaccessible or their slave addresses may be unknown On the Network page you can check the network status and find out the addresses You can also send a few global commands which are very useful for various synchronized data acquisition tasks or maintenance The first button at the top of the box on the left is Force packet protocol see Figure 15 1 You can always use this button without exploring or before exploring if you suspect that any slave might not be in the packet protocol m
55. anks Frequency analysis Histograms Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS ON LINE HEAD Composer expert system V0 08 process in order 1 6 for IRMA 7 moisture meters only g x s Generate noise Noise center UPLOAD 25 Prin PENDING Select index Clear table SJ Edit 0 03005 0 1736 C OVHT p o 341 9 gt 3 5 Prepare b A Generate Update ean BANK lt lt E Went ane Grade Material max 20 char s Selected index Match Current index 2 GENERAL 1 GENERAL 80 09 1 C 1 BREAK STDZE 4 d LIB Range center 36 method Calc caliper um Point Signal Moisture Check reading Apply BRK 1145 TOTAL 94 56 ia 1 0 980473 0 C o ei Moisture sional adjust REFL COMP ROC Points in use 0 J 0 NONE J 2 6 4 opt 6 DARK MUL Expert Edit Fine tune opt Raw signal Plot NUM eee Press F1 for ARCH Help HISTO ADJ LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS Low AUTO LL m AUTO a SIGNAL SAFE o Ed x 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Moisture i 75 80 85 90 95 100 TEMP CALIBRATION IN USE f i CHECK D 10 9 2006 71 Primary Fast own 11 19 49 slave 09 gt 1 GENERAL 80 09 MULTIpoint cal DC D Figure 12 1 The Composer Expert System page a typical general case 50 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Ar
56. at you have done on the Configuration page Save settings when happy with them to avoid this to happen again Refer to Fig 23 2 70 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual e Error 7 occurred at New File Possible reason s LabVIEW File nat Found The File might have been moved or deleted or the File path might be incorrectly Formatted For the operating system For example use as path separators on Windows on Mac Q5 and UNIX MI 488 Non existent board Figure 23 2 The case of nonexistent path or file 23 3 4 User Interrupt or Nonexistent File This is the direct result of canceling retrieval of any data file to for example the Archives page Press Continue and press again the file name button to clear it This might also happen if you tried to access a file via network but met some access restriction Refer to Fig 23 3 Error 43 occurred at Open File vi File Dialog Possible reason s LabVIEW Operation canceled by user Stop Figure 23 3 The case of User interrupt when accessing a file 71 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 23 1 5 Trying to Open a Nonexistent Settings File This is the result of not finding any file containing the basic settings of this program of type ini Press Continue and check all program settings Then on the Configuration page press the Save settings button The error message will not be displaye
57. ault settings without ever touching any adjustments of the display If you are interested explore the possibilities available by clicking either the right or left button of your mouse with the cursor over some display control Learn the possibilities by reading what is in the help messages or in the dialogs to change the zooming scales and colours of your display If your display gets mixed up do not be alarmed You can always restart the software or try to restore it by studying the menus There are some control buttons connected to the display only to make a great selection of settings We are not going to any further details in this about them This same applies to the other graphical displays which are very similar in features This display does not have any cursors The Memory banks display does and also the Archives and the Frequency analysis displays do The cursors are used e g for determining the interval from which one calculates statistics of the signal or one can directly read the signal values on the curve The box at the top left corner Selection has six buttons in it You have just tried the first one which starts stops the data acquisition You can select with the other buttons the signals you wish to measure When pressed down the corresponding data will be collected as soon as the acquisition is on You can start stop collecting them even in the middle of acquiring other channels Note that file saving is done only if at the time of
58. ave a meter connected to the serial port The exceptions are the Archives Histograms Mathematics and Frequency analysis pages which you can use without any meter connected to study retrieved data This program works in Windows 7 Vista XP and in future versions Message window License information in Port speed selector this box _ ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito AK30 Memory banks Configuration Reporting Meter status Acquire mutige slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks analysis Histograms SEE HEAD 3 7 25 Yellow items are required Use only ports COMI to COMIO or ASRL1 10 6 Y d Changed settings are effective only v OVHT PENDING Asynchronous serial port E after entering OFF LINE first The primary ACQ L 4 si M SPEED 115200 slave address cap always be changed in the SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES 9 ET d numeric control at the bottom of the display LOWP BANK This program raje in Windows 2000 XP Vista Model Primary slave address rel el pint Advaliced 5 29 DATA LOGGING KBD 7j AK30 Jj does nothing in the background unless you Build Lv2009 BREAK STDZE explicitly ask it to For best display make Pre 2005 SW in meter sure you have thd screen font Courier New t available in Windows BRK LIB NO Settings saveable REGISTERED TO UD Refer to www visilab fi For latest info
59. aves to some upper adaress value to prevent long lasting explorations halting the program from other useful work 57 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 16 Reporting Page 16 1 Selections for Reporting There are some optional settings on this page which are not saved The buttons LVM file XML file and Datalog enable creation of data files in other formats in addition to the traditional IRMA7 files which themselves are quite useful for spreadsheet programs etc The LVM format is typical for LabView based systems XML format is mostly for Active X software and Datalog files are used for signal processing and datalogging Note that this software always saves traditional IRMA7 data files to the data file path you have defined If you have not defined a path for files you will get error messages every time the program tries to save a file You don t have the possibility of turning it off This will save you a lot of headache as all of your primary data is saved The only discomfort you may have is that you have to clean up the data file directory occasionally to prevent it overflowing physical memory limits The typical data file size is about 30 kb for each run or each partial run in Acquire Refer to Figure 16 1 You can use the Printing method selector You have the options of Standard Postscript or Bitmap printing Use the Standard by default as it usually works the best way in all environments If your printe
60. bration name max 20 char s FAST BRK UPDATE 44 4CCSilk130g Convert Apply eu WT _ Abort EX REFL COMP 2 Difference gt Editing Convert Percent Mode Manual adjust Automatic adjust Calibration MUL DARK NET NUM HELP FREQ ARCH LEVELS HISTO HIGH ADJ MATH Low WATCH STATUS AUTO AUTO SIGNAL SAFE ert TEMP Raw signal Curve 0 moisture CHECK Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE am Fast 12122008 Primary ET Lao on AGC CaSO M 11 29 38 1 slave 9 WC m C amp 44 smuto SC Figure 10 1 The Calibration page with an active table editing Note the calcula tor button at the center for launching a simple calculator 43 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration Library GET material PENDING Reporting Calibration Point Network Meter status Acquire Composer Linearized signal 11 286 Raw signal J 0 955299 Multiple slaves An Math chives Numeric Keyboard 2 2 Assumed Mode 36 method Memory Banks mode Frequency analysis Advanced User s Manual Histograms Caposito SIATS HEAD 2 Enable 25 RAT Points in use Edit gt Raw sign TOTAL PERCENT earizer arget value G OTAL PERCEN Linearized signal gi signal Raw signal Signal adjust arget tolerance Convert to Mode 0 0 4 36 method RED Cal mode Apply We
61. chives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Configuration Reporting Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS ON LINE HEAD Composer expert system V0 08 process in order 1 6 For IRMA 7 moisture meters only x zs m gt Generate Dry noise Noise center UPLOAD PENDING Select index Clear table d 6 Edit gt gt 0 02 0 1635 C ONHT Eo 41 1 C 3 5 ET Prepare Sr Generate Update ES WE Basis weight Gade Material max 20 char s Selected index Match Current index 80 GENERAL 1 GENERAL 80 0g TAM 1 emm 1 BREAK STDZE d ET 4 Range center 36 method Calc caliper um Point Signal Moisture Check reading Apply BRK 1145 TOTAL 94 56 1 1 0 974001 10 2 E 2 Moisture s Signal adjust REFL COMP packing Points in use 0 0 TAMBUR 2 6 4 t DARK 7 o MUL Expert E Fine tune 6 opt TES Raw signal Ploro Masi NUM MRES Press F1 for ARCH Help HISTO ADJ LEVELS WATCH HIGH STATUS Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL TEMP CHECK Fast Down CALIBRATION IN USE Up Fast 10 9 2006 71 mnm ndi 1 GENERAL 80 09 TAM pem gem 11 21 11 slave CC C m 1 iS E _ Figure 12 2 The Composer Expert System page the tambur case 51 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual to a file 12 7 Fine Tune In this box you can manually fine tune the new calibration table to match exactly
62. d Contact Visilab or the nearest representa tive for details Stopping To stop working with this software turn off any pending tasks on their corresponding pages Go to OFF LINE state and optionally save all settings used Press the SAFE EXIT button to stop Untimely pressing of this button will lead only to a short tone signal In emergency you can stop this program without saving either data or settings by pressing the small button marked X at the top rightmost corner The meter s slave address is important for proper working of the communication The default address is 1 but you may have changed it for some reason The allowed range is 1 255 Zero is reserved for the program itself master and can not be used for slaves Using an incorrect slave adaress will cause inoperable software with long delays between actions and messages like No response etc If you have changed the address and can not remember it go to Keyboard mode page and enter Keyboard mode Restart the meter and press the space bar Soon you should be able to go to the communication menu of the meter to check or set the address Refer to the meter s User s Guide for details Then exit the Keyboard mode and you can then set the slave adaress at the Configuration page An even more elegant and simple way of detecting perhaps several slaves attached to the local network is to use the Network Explore task refer to Network page To properly save all library meter configura
63. d 7 3 The signals are passed through a filter called Hamming to give a better peak resolution The resulting power spectrum is displayed on the graphical display You have two cursors there as before and can adjust the scales too The four channels available are either the last acquired data portion last stopped acquired data last bank download data orsome archive file The first channel is capable of updating the spectrum regularly as new data is acquired You can select the signal from the original set of Moisture Web temperature Head temperature Expansion module or Extra temperature or other signals corresponding to your sensor model with the small numerical selector Note that the spectrum may look strange at the beginning That is the result of padding the signal array with zeros when most of the signal is missing When sufficiently data is available you will get reliable spectra The calculation is always based on having 4096 samples in the time series Missing samples are always padded with zeros This may cause inaccuracies in spectra if the actual number of data points is much lower This fact is relevant when downloading data from the smaller banks Bank1 4 with 1024 points The errors are not alarmingly large though For best accuracy use the Series bank with 4096 points for frequency analysis If you need to have a data file of the resulting spectrum press the button to the right of the channel selectors at the corresponding position
64. d again after this Refer to Fig 23 4 X Error 7 occurred at Open Config Data vi Possible reason s LabVIEW File not Found The File might have been moved ar deleted or the File path might be incorrectly Formatted For the operating system For example use as path separators on Windows on Mac Q5 and fon UNIX MI 488 Non existent board Figure 23 4 The case of nonexistent settings file ini file 72 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 23 1 6 Trying to Open a Nonexistent License File This is the result of not finding a valid license file of name license ini and is shown on the Configuration page The program will close soon after this and you should try to catch the location where it expects to find the license file Refer to Fig 23 5 Copy the license file to that particular location and try again The error message will not be displayed again after this However if your license is of limited time category the only way to solve this is to get a proper valid license file from the manufacturer REGISTERED TO License Til LUERMINATEDI MI DD Y vv Expected license File location C Program Files Mational Instruments LabVIEW 7 1 advanced installer license ini Unauthorized use will be prosecuted License info Figure 23 5 The case of nonexistent license file license ini 73 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Index
65. delays as we have true rubberbanding of time in the acquisition If forsome reason sampling is delayed and the acquisition realizes that it will start collecting data faster than the interval indicates In the opposite case it will pause until a proper time has passed to start acquisition again This makes sure that after having a normal interval again it has matched the number of samples taken and the time passed The interval is saved along with other program settings SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual You can also preset the number of samples to be taken After having those samples the acquisition stops automatically Do this by pressing the button Predefined and set the number in the control Count Another way of controlling data acquisition is to make it conditional by pressing the button Conditional Data is then acquired from the meter only when its Autotimer is on Else the data is replaced with zeros This is useful for collecting data from a sheet feeder system or alike where the data acquisition can be triggered with an optical sensor causing the Autotimer to turn on for Figure 4 1 The Acquire page data retrieved from the primary slave Select signals to be acquired ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR LOGGER e Reporting N Network Library Composer Math Configuration Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Interval s 0 2 ofr moisture o D
66. e a calculated difference signal The difference signal is shown on Archives page and Histograms page as well when you apply the index 16 for the selector 36 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual While running this operation you can add markers to the selected signals to indicate some event The marker height is adjustable on the Reporting page Pressing the Print button will send an image of the graph to the printer Statistics and more information is printed on the Archives page HTML reporting saves an image of the display for your personal reports You have a scanner utility in this task It is used by connecting some sort of device for triggering one of the meter s Autotimer a hardware input with TTL levels falling edge sensitive When the scanner frame starts to move the device sends a short falling pulse to the input The pulse width should be between one microsecond and one second That will start the autotimer of the selected meter triggering slave The scanner portion of this task will wait and check the Autotimer frequently until it has started Then the data acquisition is started The number of points to be collected in one scan is set in the numeric control below the Scanner button The lowest numeric control is for selecting the triggering slave address Configure the memory banks and the Autotimer on the memory banks page to acquire some 100 to 400 samples to the memory bank at the full speed to ke
67. e it will stop automatically You can control the use of this operation either manually in the box Manual commands or by using the Macro commands The manual commands consist of downloading data from the meter to the program memory and display The data is automatically saved just as in Acquisition to IRMA7 data files and optional LVM XML or Datalog files 5 1 Manual Operation Manual operation starts always by checking the settings to avoid any mistakes After confirming the bank settings press the UPDATE key if you have made any changes You are almost prepared to start If the window Samples in bank shows any nonzero reading you probably have to clear the bank by pressing Clear Bank button Press WATCH AUTO button to continuously see what is the state of the Autotimer If it is on you can turn it off by pressing the Stop button The WATCH button stays ON as long as you want and it will update the sample number indicator to the right and the two indicator LEDs One of them is right below this button and the other one is at the right edge bottom SIGNAL It will also update the TEMP indicator if the autotimers are linked When these LEDs are lit it means the corresponding autotimers are on It isrecommended to always keep the WATCH on when working with the memory banks SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual The manual operation proceeds either by adding single samples to the selected memory bank by pressi
68. e only way to change the address After the bootup phase the meter goes to the last mode it was turned off in either the Packet protocol or the Keyboard mode This is repeated every time the meter is booted up You can use the Network page also to successfully find out the slave addresses in an easy way You can always Enter Keyboard mode independent of the previous history of the meter as long as you know its slave address this is the Primary slave In the Keyboard mode page you press the Enter Keyboard mode button and wait for a few seconds to see the meter s messages on fhe text screen The mouse is not effective on the text display Instead you have to use the single key hot key commands listed in the user s manual The text based menu system is very simple and you can do here many of the tasks except graphics and file saving you have learned to do earlier Some special meter settings are done here and can not be reached in the Packet protocol with any practical commands Also the built in Composer expert system can be used through this interface When finished with this just click the Exit Keyboard mode button and wait for a few seconds The KBD LED must be turned off before you can start doing anything else with the program Refer to Figure 11 1 If you do not know the slave address and you need to change it Enter the Keyboard mode and turn off the meter Then turn it on again and intercept the booting process by pressing the space bar
69. e recognized later when analyzing data The marker height is adjustable on the Reporting page The number fields besides this box are real time values of each signal in corresponding order A still more elegant way of measuring sheets or other discontinuous materials is to apply the Burst mode refer to Memory banks offering you the cleanliest signal You have a scanner utility in this task It is used by connecting some sort of device for triggering the meter s Autotimer a hardware input with TTL levels falling edge sensitive When the scanner frame starts to move the device sends a short falling pulse to the input The pulse width should be between microsecond and one second That will start the autotimer of the meter The scanner portion of this task will wait and check the Autotimer frequently until it has started Then the data acquisition is started The number of points to be collected in one scan is set in the numeric control to the left of the Scanner button It is the same control as for the Predefined and the same count is used there too Configure the memory banks and the Autotimer on the memory banks page to acquire some 100 to 400 samples to the memory bank at the full speed to keep it on at least for a few seconds Calculate the resulting timing to be sure that the Autotimer will turn itself off before the scan has actually ended Else this utility will restart again The idea is that for each scan the meter will deliver a moisture prof
70. e sional NUM FREQ EN a 1 LEVELS HISTO HIGH ADJ MATH WATCH a STATUS l AUTO l AUTO I SIGNAL SAFE AM 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Samples TEMP l 5 10 15 20 25 30 5 40 NN 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 iho 105 110 117 INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE 1 Fast Down Uj Fast redo 31 S a a IN CHECK to see QUICK 2 point D 10 12 52 NN Stamped filename after N x downloading and saving Abort button for N data transfer Cursor tree selectors Figure 5 1 The Memory Banks page right click on either one to see more options 20 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual If you are interested in having the temperature autotimer data press the button Copy Tto Bank4 This will copy the 1024 samples long temperature bank to Bank4 and then clear the temperature bank Select Bank4 as your current bank in the Bank settings box Then you can download the data as before The temperature data is available only in model D and is taken at a rate of 16 Hz in latest models In older meter revisions Rev 1 and 2 the interval is one second unless the meters are equipped with a fresher software In other products the temperature can be either web temperature or head temperature depending on model and available options 5 2 Automatic Use You can also use the Macro commands to make all of this easier You can set as the current ba
71. eed 38400 bauds ALL of the slaves must be configured accordingly They must be configured one at a time with the other slaves disconnected or via a separate serial port To assign a meter to a channelis done by scrolling the slave display Press the small arrows up down at the center of the page marked as Channel 0 7 You can assign channels to 7 for any meter you have installed in your system The channel number has nothing to do with the slave address All the meters must have differing slave addresses else there will be inevitable collisions Needless to say the whole network will not function in that case You need first to separately make sure that each slave s address makes sense A simple way of doing this is to adjust the slave address and then press the button Check If the slave exists you will get a meter serial number into the small window close to the address control You can try out as much as you can until you find the correct slave A list of each slave can be seen on the Network page If you have managed to offer a nonexistent slave address the text window will show No response after a few seconds You can select the same slave to more than one channel When the channel has been verified to be correct you can toggle the two buttons marked as Signal A and Signal B to indicate the status That is also shown on a small LED indicator array to the right The top row is channel 0 and the bottom row is channel 7 with correspondin
72. eflective Composer Autoranging NO AUTO ES md WATCH Dark AO STATUS LEDS SIGNAL NO None D Status bytes N 1 TEMP e aaa Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Up Fast 1252012 jj Primary em T eme x IETA E a ET 2 09 53 PM slave CEN gt C amp 68 Mum gt gt N N M T Selector area for calibration table and Figure 3 3 Program working areas 15 slave address Always press Check first if you are uncertain Always visible except in Keyboard mode or while you are on ihe Configuration page SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 4 Acquire Page To start measuring right away we assume you have the meter ready and pointed at some target material Go to Acquire page and press the large button marked OFF to change it to ON This will start data retrieval from the primary slave meter if the connection is working correctly Check the slave address at the bottom of the window to make sure The graphic display shows the accumulating signal values with automatic scaling The time scale shows the correct time taken from your computer Refer to Figure 4 1 If nothing seems to happen and the program becomes sluggish either the slave address is incorrect or more likely the meter is in Keyboard mode This behavior applies for all other tasks as well Stop the Acquire operation and check the adaress Network page You can work fine with the def
73. ent material index in the meter by pressing the button CHECK right above the index counter window As a result the text field below the index display and the calibration mode indicator are updated together with the library name in the meter This is the entry you are using for the Acquire operation right now If you change it you had better not to do any measurements at the same time Press the keys UP FAST UP DOWN FAST DOWN besides the index counter display to find the material you are interested in This will change the current table in the meter but it should not be important at this time Then go to the box Material in PC library and click the arrows up and down right at the left edge of the index counter to find the other material entry in the PC library The corresponding calibration curves are shown at the same time with some elementary information When ready with the selection you can now either download a material from the meter by clicking the button DOWNLOAD above the word MATERIAL or upload a material entry to the meter by clicking the button UPLOAD under the same word The data are all updated at once You can also clear a particular table in the library Select the correct index and press the Clear button That table can then be uploaded to the meter if necessary 39 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual In this way you can do complete tailoring of any library It is advised that you change a l
74. ep it on at least for a few seconds This will affect the triggering slave only Calculate the resulting timing to be sure that the Autotimer will turn itself off before the scan has actually ended Else this utility will restart again The idea is that for each scan the meters will deliver a moisture profile and the program will hold it on the display until the next scan is started You can stop the scanning by turning off the Multiple slaves operation The hardware for generating the pulse can be either an optical switch sensing the movement of the scanning head or the scanning frame control system may produce it You can acquire other signals while scanning but that will slow down the acquisition and you will get fewer samples per scan The other meters don t need to be on the moving scanner frame You can get correlative data from a set of meters with this option You can easily invent new creative ways for using this even if you don t have a scanner There is a similar Lag indicator as on Acquire page for informing the user of a too tight time interval budget while retrieving data from slaves The settings on this page are saved for next session in this program if you press the Save button while exiting on the Configuration page Return to Figure 8 1 37 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Select any of available signals if moisture and or web temperature are acquired or other signals from your sensor like gloss
75. er forms a kind of staircase to the signal values starting from the left cursor value and connecting it horizontally straight to the right cursor value 29 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual The measurement unit used is added as a text field to the tail part of each data file at the end of each calibration table name Annotation It might be tempting to add some text into various graphs while studying either signals coming in or after being analyzed with various methods You can do it It is allowed on all graphs except the Acquire and Multiple Slaves graphs You can either write freely floating text or annotate certain data points into a curve Right click over the graph area and activate Create annotation option A dialog will open The Annotation name is the text becoming visible Lock style has options Free Snap to All Plots and Snap to One Plot Locked Plot is the resulting name of the plot selected You can also tick in the ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms ae Eee Last acq 0 Signal Ch4 Ch Average Std dev Min Max aim HEAD or 30 motosne1139130 4cq 0 0 00 0 00 o BD PENDING Last stop 1 Signal Ch5 1 0000 0 000 0 00 0 00 AER OFF Jo OFF 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Last multi 2 signal ch
76. ersion but it does not upload the new table to the meter You have to do it yourself by pressing the Update button Refer to Fig 10 4 You can repeat this process back and forth as many times as you need after toggling the mode between conversions Every time the material name is modified a little to indicate the current method The material name is limited to 20 characters and this will limit soon 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library Calibration RS Math WOOD 5 5 HEAD 1 Se etal 1 por Rawsignal Linearized signal 2 2 CHECK 2 Enable 25 Assumed Mode uem PENDING oH J 0 976599 J 3 75586 MEET gt on ACQ 2 i i Target value Points in use Y ud TOTAL PERCENT Linearized signal 9 BANK ER GET Raw signal Raw signal 3 94944 13 95 Lowe UB jo j Target tolerance Cal mode Convert to Mode UNES IE BREAK KBD STDzE Apply gt S method po Speed Edit material name max 20 char s sow BRK 13 Sturovoflute 112 Convert Apply Oo e Abort Editing Convert Percent Mode Manual adjust Automatic adjust Ew Difference Calibration E13 i i I l 4 Hi Hn FREQ ARCH Lu HHH HELP mi HHH HISTO ADJ MATH Iu lu Hu LEVELS WATCH LET HIGH ST
77. ex to the numeric control in the Prepare box and press the Clear button The table is now prepared for a session with the expert 12 3 Expert In the Expert box you make decisions and selections concerning the paper grade you are going to measure You can try out any fields here freely Everything affects everything so make sure that when you leave to the next box all selections are valid There are several numeric controls and displays and a few list selectors for you The most important is the basis weight selector The next important is the grade selector which is a list of most general grades Click the arrows at its left edge to scroll the list up or down If you do not find your grade at all take the nearest equivalent or use GENERAL If you grade contains gypsum it is required to check the gypsum content control too That window appears only for this grade The next control in order is the Range center which in fact does not affect the resulting calibration at all but is used for estimating the web noise content The numeric display Caliper indicates the estimated paper caliper This may prove useful if you do not know the paper basis weight but its caliper Then you can adjust the basis weight until you get the correct caliper You can also select the percent calculation method either referring to total weight or to dry weight The total percent is the most usual and with IRMA 7 moisture meters a linear behavior is resulting with
78. fic LED on the Numeric page There is an additional adjustable delay for preventing single noise peaks from causing alarm Only a persistent alarm condition will cause an alarm The time delay is in seconds with 0 1s increments The numeric control is marked as Time before alarm To turn on the alarm first set the level thresholds high and low in this same box Then turn on watching the level crossing and turn on the alarm The Acquire task must be running of course for any event to take place at all When either the HIGH or LOW levels have been crossed and been active for at least the delay time an alarm is set It sends a tone signal to the PC speakers and turns on a red big LED on the Numeric page There are two buttons for clearing the alarm One is in this same box and another is on the Numeric page If the alarm conditions stays clearing it will help only momentarily It is the user job to see what has actually caused the alarm The text display below These indicate the time of last alarm event 16 7 Control Files One can produce data files at regular time intervals saved with just a simple group of data These data points can be used in a production machine feedback control system as a simple means of data transport To use this feature either in Acquire task or in Multiple Slaves task or both at the same time one needs to select the Control file path on Configuration page The control files are created there and are each available immedia
79. file data file have been ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration Reporting Network Meer status Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Libary Calibration Comp ser Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS iginal fil 7 HEAD ths ld index Name Shift Offset 25 on 86 36 Kodak color 168g Ji M0108081139130 ACQ New index Name Scaling Save shifted Hu J 35 35 Kodak Color 84g BANK C Save restored Stamped filename Stamped filename 7 5M0108081207414 CNV PENDING ACQ KBD gt Print i eu EET Openjdownload a library First Shifting Average Std dev Min BE cursord 830 Original 3 93 0 014 Restored 8 49 0 014 Original EB Cursor1 378 Original Shifted 3 93 0 014 Restored EH A shifted EN Signals HELP MATH LEVELS WATCH A HIGH STATUS Y ADJ Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL TEMP 1 1 1 1 200 400 600 800 INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE 8 1 2008 3 Primary CHECK Fast Down 13 07 39 slave LU C C 73 73 Sturovoflute 112 Figure 14 1 The Math page with asgignal restoration example SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual pressing the Save restored button The file name is stamped and shown If there are any problems with the table entries a small error LED is lit besides the problem source Check the table At lea
80. g markers for the signals A and B If the buttons are not pressed the signals are not acquired There are also small coloured squares for adjusting the curve colours Clicking on them will open up a colour palette dialog with which you can create new colours or accept some existing colour to have a distinction between the signals When you press the Check key for each slave you will also get the proper measurement unit used actually in that meter into the small window marked as Unit If no checking is performed the unit is obtained from the earlier saved settings or is left as Check to see It does not affect the data itself in any way You can assign each meter for a certain purpose and mark this with an editable text window below the serial number This text will display the meter s mission in the future and is also added to the file tails Save the settings at the end of your measurement session and these text fields will be saved too The box Channel difference can be used to generate a new signal from the acquired signals by calculating either a difference or an average between two signals in real time The signals can be selected in this box by indicating the channels and the corresponding signal type signal A signal B The curve colours can be adjusted here too When ready press the corresponding ON OFF button to ON to have the difference signal Its data is automatically saved like any other signal The file name is coded as D to indicat
81. gnal This operation is not functional for IRMA 7 model A meters 16 3 Manual Standardization Turn off any pending operations before standardizing Standardization affects all tables in the library but does not make changes to them Place the moisture standard under the meter Press the button CHECK to get the current information of standardization The first numerical window shows and allows you to edit the index of the material used for standardization By default the table is 70 The next field contains the reading of the moisture standard when originally measured with this meter It should not be changed unless for a reason The third field is the Resulting shift which is modified in the process Make it zero and press the SET button besides it The meter has now the 58 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual same information you do Change the current material entry to 70 with the controls at the bottom of the display Go to the Acquire page and start acquiring moisture data Go to the Archives page and enable the channel zero for getting the real time acquired data You can adjust the cursors to get the statistics of the data After having enough of data to have a representative average of it stop these operations after making a note of the average moisture value Subtract the new average from the original value Place this value to the shift field and press the button SET Your meter has now a proper correction sh
82. hives page 25 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Code signal M moisture G gloss WT web temperature HT head temperature XM expansion module XT extra temperature C capacitance SAO 7 signal A multi slave operation channel 0 7 SBO 7 signal B multi slave operation channel O 7 SM shifted signal Math operation RM restored signal Math operation D channel difference from calculated real time or post operation code source ACQ acquired signal BNK memory bank download SPE spectrum signal CNV calculated shifted or restored data code format ACQ IRMA7 format ASCII data as text BNK IRMA7 format ASCII data as text padded with the name of the bank SPE IRMA7 format ASCII data as text LVM LVM file format not readable back in this program XML XML format not readable back in this program LOG Datalog format not readable back in this program HTML Report in HTML mainly pictures and text Date time code key 0307041141553 month day and year time in hours minutes time in seconds a running random number In this way the program produces files whose names are unambiguous but recognizable Needless to say but itis advised to clean up the data file directory of unnecessary files regularly Make backup 26 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual copies to e g CD s before removing them The channels available on the
83. ift Similar order of work is done for other products The Manual standardization too is protected with a critical setting dialog to make sure you know what you are doing 16 4 Automatic Standardization Place the moisture standard under the meter and press the button Standardize It will take some 15sto complete and the resulting shift is automatically shown in the numerical display Refer to user s manual for details Avoid misuse This operation does not apply for IRMA 7 model A It has its own Selectors for audible alarm of signal level crossing Signal level crossing settings 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER ey E Composer MathN Keyboard mode Caposito AK30 Menlo banks Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire DONE slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analfsis Histograms AGES LINE HEAD 2s Select extra data file formats and e ACQ Create files N OVHT ACO LYM file XML file Datalog OFF N OFF OFF OFF LOWP BANK Lor Lore MULTI Create files N KBD or BREAK STDZE HTML report Printing Control interval N or ji N BRK Printing method Save signal readings For N You haven t checked i yet ET jj Standard feedback control REFL Documentation Feedback control files Standardization manual or MUL NET ProjectName NUM HELP FREQ Job N ARCH JobNumber N LEVELS HISTO
84. iguration The PC programisinstalled as follows The simplest way isto locate the small program Visilabinstaller exe on the USB stick and start it You will be presented with a selector for installing one program at a time To install a particular program you can also do it by locating the program setup exe in any of the pertinent folders of the USB memory stick Start it and perform the simple and quick installation You are then ready to start working with this program Locate the icon for the program Advanced and double click it to start A shortcut is created automatically onto your Desktop to easier locate it in the future In the following we will shortly go through all the features available in this software Most features are more or less trivial and do not require any deeper knowledge To run the program you need the license file sent to you separately You may also use the temporary license file which usually resides on the CD If you have not received the license file inform Visilab and you will get it immediately You can also contact your local dealer The memory stick can be reused for any suitable purpose after this installation Remember to make backup copies of the whole stick before you use it elsewhere Your license file may also be included and you don t want it to be lost SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 1 2 System Requirements This software operates Windows 8 7 Vista XP environments if you
85. ile and the program will hold it on the display until the next scan is started You can stop the scanning by turning off the Acquire operation The hardware for generating the pulse can be either an optical switch sensing the movement of the scanning head or the scanning frame control system may produce it You can acquire other signals while scanning but that will slow down the acquisition and you will get fewer samples per scan You can easily invent new ways for using this even if you don t have a scanner just by adding a sensor optical or mechanical to generate a trigger and measure a batch of samples A machine using sheets cutter printer could be the target As you can see there is an LED indicator at the left edge ACQ which is lit when you have started this operation It is there to remind you of a pending operation which should be properly stopped before stopping the program or going to the Keyboard mode There are also some other operations which might interfere with this operation and therefore it is recommended to turn it off In principle you can use most of the operations in this program simultaneously Of course if you are uploading a new library to the meter there is no sense in doing measurements at the same time as the calibration table in use may change Glitches in signal may result even when the table is replaced with the same one Note that the settings in the program other than those mentioned at the Configuration page are
86. in use The calibration mode can be set to reflect the use of the calibration table MULTI use the table QUICK do not use it If the mode is left as QUICK the table is not in use but instead the QUICK calibration linear scaling is used That is not a linearization at all as pointed out above The Point selector goes from 1 to 10 and you can fill in any points in any order Just click the small arrows at the left edge of this control Do not leave any empty points when finished Also the raw signal signal values must be increasing when the Point increases else you will get a folded curve and the future signal values will be useless Adjust the Points in use control to reflect the actual number of points to be used in the calibration 1 Press again the Edit button to stop editing The curve is now displayed and you can make a check against the curve you have possibly obtained earlier in your calibration measurements If you are happy with this you can Update the calibration in the meter by pressing the UPDATE button You are ready to use the new calibration after this If you are doing real time calibration with the meterin a climate chamber and you have the sample in front of the meter properly placed you can in the Edit phase get a signal from the meter by pressing the GET raw signal button The obtained signal is displayed in the small window besides the 41 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual
87. ion Table Editing 41 Restore 54 Restoring 54 retrieve 16 rubberbanding 16 S Sample 57 Save shifted 55 Save button 37 Save restored 55 Save settings 10 scanner utility 18 37 serial port 9 Set Low Power 57 Settings locked 11 Settings saveable 11 Shift 55 shift in moisture 54 Shifting 55 Signal Adjustment 42 signal level crossing indicators 60 slave address 9 SLOW 42 77 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Some of the Most Important Error Messages 70 SPE 26 standard 58 Standardization 49 50 52 58 Start 57 Status bytes 12 status LEDs 7 Stop 57 Stopping 9 Style Issues 7 System Requirements 7 T target tolerance 42 target value 42 TEMP 19 total percent 45 49 total weight 49 traditional IRMA7 data files 58 triggering 21 Trying to Open a Nonexistent License File 73 Trying to Open a Nonexistent Settings File 72 u UP 39 UPDATE SETTINGS 12 UPDATING 19 UPLOAD 39 upload 39 Uploading 39 User Interrupt or Nonexistent File 71 WATCH 19 web temperature offset 12 WTO 7 26 X XML 22 26 XML file 58 78
88. ittle their names to match the indices if moved to another index A recommended practise is to make a backup copy of a new library by saving it If changes are made to a library it is recommended to change its name too Theloaded or downloaded library is in use only on the Library page and Math page Any other page uses either the meter s library or single entries loaded from the meter directly If you download a library from a meter or open a library file you will be asked for the file name to save this possibly important file at the time when you are leaving the program Check the library name and the name of the calibration table in use Open save a at this time library file The abort button for Upload download d single material entry data transfers utton for clear ing a single table ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration mM Network Meter status Vern calbration Acquire Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis a ee mode slaves pore LL Math STATUS Composer Caposito HEAD METER SENSOR Clear library PENDING gt ACQ BANK KBD Clear mM opln library file Lib path A Save lib amp 8 gt Edit Filename LIB I7L Index Points 1 QUICK 2 point 0 Calibration MATERIAL 1 Edit name a gt Library name LIBRARY E E p 2008402 Download Progresf l me gt MATERIAL
89. k settings box has the buttons for CHECKING and UPDATING You have four controls there for selecting the Banks setting the sampling time interval and selecting the Autotimer mode Continuous or Batch Also the Batch size and Burst mode features can be set The Continuous mode operates forever until explicitly stopped and Batch mode collects the preset number of samples into the meter and stops itself NOTE Only the sample interval of all the features in this box can be retrieved and set in model A Pressing the CHECK key will also retrieve the current number of available samples in the bank for all models The smallest interval is 0 0025 s for model D and 0 2 s for model A For Caposito DC the smallest interval is 0 001 s The graphic display resembles much the one in Acquire operation but has more options for adjustment What applies here for model D applies for all other products and models too A Small hint If the cursors are not visible you can place them to the display center by locating the grey little buttons at the cursor controls having crosses at the center By clicking there you can select an option from the menu Bring to center Then you can move horizontally the cursor by dragging the vertical line on the display The Autotimer can be started manually with the large button at the top right or with hardware isolated TTL input at the interface connector Stopping is done manually with the large button at the right or in Batch mod
90. lay ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library N Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito Configuration SHOE Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks requency analysis Histograms Web speed m s HEAD P325 25 Last acquired Save last acq Save spectra Signal Frequency calculator OFF 4 nj Fel Cylinder Library file PENDING Last stopped Save last stopped 259 OFF em BANK Last Bank DL Save last Bank DL KBD us length m Save archive gt cursor 100 171 49 281 Last acquired Bank DL Last stopped Cursor Bank DL Bank DL 100 171 49 281 m BIB calculator 8 33333 print y Archive 5 Bank DL SEU SE Frequency from calculator Hz BH 29 0 Amplitude dB ADI MATH UN SETS 3 LEVELS ERES nN M AFA d Lohn n TELE HIGH STATUS n T Low AUTO AUTO SIGNAL i 120 140 Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE 8 1 2008 Primary Fast 12 15 42 slave a 36 36 Kodak color 1689 4 gt Figure 7 1 The Frequency Analysis page The calculator uses the felt option page with the felt length defined and the web speed above it 32 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual be calculated when web speed and other machine factors are known The same principles apply for other phenomena like a capacitive pressure sensor See Figures 7 1 7 2 an
91. lysis calculator Clear button is added to calibration V4 30 Composer 0 07 the mirror case is removed and the noise calculation is refined Network page s data is now conserved during the session independent on the ON LINE button V4 31 HTML reports more complete with statistics and headers V4 32 A small Composer bug fixed V4 35 the delta value in Calibration Adjust is now cleared when a new table is GET from the meter V4 36 the Acquire interval is also saved The delta value is cleared in Composer when new table is generated to avoid unintentional application of false delta values V4 39 the Library page has now a Clear button for clearing a particular table in the library The corresponding button on the Calibrations page was removed The Library page has also an indi cator of any changes made to the library contents residing in the PC end Automatic adjustment of calibration offset is a new feature V4 40 FAST SLOW button for Automatic adjust different background colour for those controls which user can modify Error message dialogs are explained in this document V4 4 the Zero data button added bank info added to the bank download file name V4 42 Force packet commands added to a few critical places Acquire etc when starting to avoid hangup if the meter has been turned off V4 43 with total dry percent methods added to Composer for generation and Calibration for conversion Composer 0 08 The Standardization operation is moved to Re
92. most grades especially above 8 of moisture Note that the dry method will lead to highly nonlinear behavior The method can be converted back to either one on the Calibration page The last important selection is the backing behind the web or sample If you have sheet samples a numerical control will appear and you can fillin the total number of sheets The caliper is updated according to this You can always repeat all of these subtasks below if you feel you have not succeeded 12 4 Generate Press the button Generate to get a new calibration matching your grade The table is still in the program s memory and is displayed on the graph 49 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 12 5 Edit You can edit all features of the new table optional Press the button Edit to start editing session of the calibration table The possibilities are identical to those in the Calibration task Press again the Edit button to stop editing The table is still in the program s memory and is displayed on the graph 12 6 Update Press the button UPLOAD to copy the new calibration to the meter You are ready to use it Note that the new calibration table is now in the meter and in the Composer task It has not been saved to disk That should be done on the Library page by Downloading the whole library and saving it B Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory B
93. nal ch 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Laco OFF Jo OFF 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 151 Ch7 ChS Ch6 Save Ch 0 000 0 000 0 00 0 00 Lore C Ave fiter Zerodata Staircase BB Cursor0 1143 405 gt C A C m ind Stamped filename 886 LAcq Postfilter between cursors HELP LEVELS HIGH Low AUTO SIGNAL 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Samples TEMP 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 2800 3000 3200 3400 3600 3800 4095 Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Primar Fast 10 8 1 2008 Y 36 Kodak color 168g C 12 10 35 slave 2 Be 590 36 Figure 6 4 The Archives page with zeroed data on channel 4 The interval is defined by the two cursors You can move the two cursors to see the statistics of data between them from all channels activated The posifilter box contains buttons for filtering out the data on a selected channel between the cursors This is used for cleaning up a signal if it has peaks from a web break or other interruptions or too high noise Activate the channel by loading the data file select the channel to be filtered press Ave filter button and press Save button to write a stamped file of this new data You can repeat the filtering as many times as you like without saving Move the cursors to a new position and execute the filter again There is also a button marked as Zero data for setting all data values to zero between the cursors The Staircase filt
94. ng Reflective Composer Autorangi NO Da Em STATUS LEDS SIGNAL OK NO None l 1 Status bytes LY TEMP gt gt CHECK Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Up Fast 123200 7 primary Cm C 68 685CALINGx100 amur MO C m V 2 05 33 PM ENS s IN A MEN Watch the sta n ds 9e i l a tus LEDs on the Save l E rightmost address S 7 panel cee Current material inde M u IQI I X DE E Doo name and calibration Ch th z I n r and calibration mode ange mie CH mode rent material by increasing de creasing the index Figure 3 1 The Meter status page for checking the primary slave for all models not IRMA 7 model A nor AK30 AK40 13 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Check the current meter settings and statys Model A specific level settings Update the shown settings to the meter ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR LOGGER jc E omposer Math Keyboard mode Service AK30 Memory banks STATUS SarSan Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Auphives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Library HEAD 25 pim STATUS Low power Beep ad T C E IRMA7 D V1 57MDF 1 OVHT 2 OFF sna gt pl 11442D5K dee OFF 27 6 d ACQ enc Usage h 3355 6 wd Orne fiter LOWP BANK UPDAT
95. ng the button Add sample or by starting the Autotimer with Start When the required number of samples have been collected you can download the data by pressing the Download button This will usually take several seconds and you can observe its progress with the blue bar at the center Data is automatically saved to a file but is still kept in the bank too If you want to clear the bank for the next run press Clear Bank AK30 memory Clear Item banks onl Burst mode Burst count count 7 d Item count selector setting totalizer N N N ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Library C Compost Math eyboard mode ERA AK30 Memory banks m Configuration Reporting EN Meter status Acquire uses Archives Numeric emoryfanks Frequency analysis Histograms E S pA HEAD CHECK N S Current bank Z Start Stop 23 N 0 7 v 0 ONHT PENDING We V ACQ UPDATE EE EN 1 Banks used in total Samples in bank 0 0025 Download LOWP BANK N 0 WATCH AUTO amp Clear Bank Bank settings Burst mode overrides Autotimer KBD BREAK STDZE cone BUSY E Add Macro commands 1 5 BRK LIB Progress Menne Abort download Muir CAL Last stamped filename x dou haven t yet REFL COMP Average st dev Print T JBA Cursor uon e Y ios 7 DARK l Signal 6 6 1682 Minimum Maximum ear 0 000 0 000 Li x b iis Statistics between cursors 85
96. nk the longest one Series Clear the bank after updating its settings and you are ready to go You start the data collection as before and stop it as before You can download the data in the current bank by pressing the button Download amp Clear This will also clear the memory bank to be ready for the next run Data is displayed and saved as before If you need the temperature data press the button Download amp Clear T to perform a similar operation Note that if your current bank is Bank4 you can not perform the temperature macro before the Download amp Clear macro as it will run over the signal data Therefore it is recommended to work in some other bank like Series to avoid this The program will automatically switch the banks for a while to do its operations You have the option of interrupting the data transfer if you detect any problem with it like a loosened cable has made it inoperable Just press the Abort button and after a few seconds the fault is ignored Also perfectly valid data transfers can be interrupted in this way The resulting data is shown and saved though On the display you have the downloaded data as a curve and two cursors in addition If the Cursors are not visible click the grey buttons at the center having crosses on them The opening menu has an option Bring to center and by selecting it you can see the corresponding cursor again You can use the cursors to calculate statistics automatically The result
97. ode but in Keyboard mode instead A single global command is sent make sure everybody is listening Note that overlapping addresses can not be resolved with the tools on Network page The slave with the same address has to be disconnected and its address be set while differing from the others Before you can apply any of the other the commands you have to Explore the available slaves to collect their addresses Press the Explore button and wait until it has found all slaves connected It will study all addresses from one to 255 and this will take a few minutes You can interrupt this if you are sure all slaves are found already by releasing the same button The slaves are listed in the array with a large yellow LED lit An entry with a legal address 255 but an empty serial number and dark LED means simply an empty slot in the array If more than 16 slaves are in the network you can apply Z ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER jm Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito AK30 Memory banks STATUS HEAD Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms 25 Ro Serial Connected Primary LowPower OVHT PENDING J0 1 AK30 9388 is E anm Force packet protoc LOWP BANK 255 i oe F T KBD 255 BREAK STDZE qu
98. ormal High speed switch to High speed and turn off its power for a few seconds to let it restart You are now ready to operate your whole network of sensors at the high speed Remember No mixed speeds in the network If you need to go back to the Normal speed repeat the steps above but go into the Normal settings You should not get into trouble as your meters are either in the Normal speed or the High speed state 69 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 23 Appendix B Error Message Dialogs 23 1 1 Some of the Most Important Error Messages While starting or using the software you may encounter the following error situations Below we explain how to proceed at that time 23 1 2 Incorrect Asynchronous Serial Port This is the most common error caused by selecting a serial port which does not exist or is already reserved for some other application Press the Continue button and check the port Then try again Refer to Fig 23 1 Error 1073807343 occurred at Property Node arg 1 in VISA Configure Serial Port Instr vi 2irmaTbasic vi Possible reason s VISA Hex OxBFFFOO11 Insufficient location information the device or resource is not present in the system Figure 23 1 The case of incorrect serial port a VISA related message 23 1 3 Incorrect Path or Nonexistent File This is the direct result of not defining and setting a sensible path for data files Press Continue and check wh
99. page is PENDING while the Item counter is updated from the meter New protocol commands are accepted and all earlier meters are selected as pre 2005 on the Config page Support for BURST mode added with an item counter Some LEDs added to various pages to reflect the inquired status V4 26 9 29 5 small enhancements like checking of current calibration table to be shown on the bottom bar when any operation alike is requested Some text colours have been changed to reflect the idea that checking is recommended first V4 28 10 24 2005 The library is always saved irrespective of user s actions if the library is modified Saving is done with a default library file name The library contents is also kept even is the user goes OFF LINE to the Configuration page The calibration curve stored in the meter is now shown SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual when any kind of checking or changing of the index of the table in the meter is performed File attributes from the original measurement are shown if the mouse cursor is moved over the filename of the retrieved archive file This applies to all tasks like Archives Histograms Frequency Analysis and Math pages The information shows the starting and stopping times if applicable and other detail information of the data file V4 29 11 18 05 Burst mode items hidden from model A users some buttons and display legends are rearranged cylinder diameter library added to Frequency ana
100. porting page V4 44 MATH archive file open indicator added V4 45 lead lag indicator added V4 47 Staircase postfilter added to Archives filtering V4 49 Lowpower indicator added to Network delay added to Acquire start when in LowPower up to 4 1s V4 50 saved settings Run time filter some channel colours in Acquire The checking in Library on meter side has a single button only The Autorun logic is made simpler and the button indicates the true logic A delay added to Acquire start when in LowPower up to 4 1s V4 52 average added to Multiple slaves task as an option to Delta V4 52 small cosmetics for Vista V4 54 larger buttons where important V5 00 Full Vista compatible version annotation to most graphs is now allowed NT4 support is dropped V5 03 Alarm function has been extended to audible alarm and large LEDs The level crossing indicator managing is now on the Reporting page V5 07 new compilation with a new kernel version 851 new VISA version 4 3 V5 15 New kernel version LV86 control file option added both for Acquire and Multiple slaves control files are now available minor cosmetic changes V5 25 support for AK30 memory banks added new kernel 2009SP2 V5 29 full support for AK30 memory banks V5 33 Windows 2000 support dropped a button added to Configuration page for checking valid ity of folders V5 48 small enhancements and new IV build version new kernel Histogram display dropped Advanced LE program is obsolete and not
101. r is fully Postscript compatible you may take advantage of its greater graphical quality If you meet any problems in printing try to select another option or adjust the features of your printer You can turn off the printing by selecting the Printing button It is ON by default You can use the HTML reporting by pressing HTML report ON The resulting HTML and JPG files are saved among other data files You can also add two text lines to each data file indicating perhaps your intention with the measurement Use the two text controls in the box Project info in data files The marker which is available both in Acquire and Multiple slaves tasks can be adjusted by height in the lowest left box Marker The default value is 0 5 units 16 2 Standardization The box called Standardization manual or automatic is used for compensating against any drift in the signal reading caused by dirty optics or any other reason depending on the specific sensor model in use For using it you need a moisture standard whose measured moisture stays highly stable for many years The standardization generates a shift to the signal to correct all calibration tables in the same way internally it does not reflect in the table s numeric values at all Using a shift in the meter s moisture reading alone would not do it You can perform the standardization manually or with an automatic algorithm The same applies to other products not having moisture as the linearized si
102. r with the settings visible on this page Think first before you press this one Always CHECK first and perhaps then UPDATE to make sure you do not change anything vital unintentionally Updating with the same settings as recently Checked does no harm The lowest button on this page is used for getting the few most important status data to the seven status LEDs at the right edge at an interval of three seconds If this key is not pressed down you do not have the LEDs updated at all The last separate button on this page is the Force packet protocol It forces the slave or slaves to switch to Packet protocol mode in case they were in the Keyboard mode NOTE Always CHECK first the settings before you SET or UPDATE them The program does nothing in the background unless you explicitly ask it to do Incorrect model will cause some functions to return zero values or some actions are not started at all You can check and set the digital filtering on this page in its own task box The web temperature signal can also have an extra filter if the signal is too noisy If a really quiet signal is required press down the Run Time Filter button It activates a heavy duty digital filter affecting both primary and secondary signals acquired moisture amp web temperature or capacitances A and B depending on model It is useful in observing slow changes in quality control conditions Of course all fast events will be filtered away The meter settings are al
103. re may be sufficient Anyway it is better than lots of nonsense values 5 4 AK30 Memory Banks The portable meter AK30 has a slightly different use and architecture of the memory banks Thus there are two extra buttons on the page above for manipulating the selected bank to be downloaded to your PC If you wish to download a greater number of banks of the 820 possibilities in the meter you should go to page AK30 Memory Banks page which is shown below You need to CHECK first tne memory banks to see which are populated with useful data You can select the two numeric controls the start and end bank numbers to be downloaded All data is the copied to the PC and archived The data is also shown as a curve for a moment In this way you can download ALL memory banks from the meter When the memory bank gets full and the number of banks used is 820 you need to do this or else just clear the memory in the Service option of the meter s internal menu system see AK30 user s guide The data remains in the meter for many years if clearing is not done One important detail is the date of the capture It can be seen in the tag window to the right as The second lowest line If the meter s date and time have been set correctly at the start of each measuring session this will label each measurement precisely 6 Archives Page and Filtering You can retrieve and display any old data files saved during program runs on this page even while some other operation i
104. rmation E Library File path NOT FOR PUBLIC USE b COMP 1 MUL D Serial 38756C8452A34D78FD2EE448D985EA NET Data file path NUM c irma7 dat mw No message this time FREQ License ARCH j 46 Control file path VALID pie at LEON HISTO c iirma7ictl 5 HIGH Expected license file location ADJ 3 a C Program Files advancedilicense ini MATH 3 d IT Low WATCH Acquire Multiple slaves AUTO OK 4 4 Autorun starting Message Save settings OK AUTO Autorun i stenar use will be prosecuted Copyright Visilab Signal Technologies Oy Finland All rights reserved 7 Basi settihgs LESSER Autorun selectors Location for the license Figure 2 1 The Configuration page file 10 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual To start running the software press the large button marked OFF LINE Pressing later on the same button with name ON LINE at that time again will return you to the same Configuration page after a few seconds However you need to have all pending operations stopped before doing that yellow lights at the left edge You will soon realize that there is a cover at the bottom of the screen preventing access to some buttons and you can not see the selection display either When you go ON LINE the cover disappears and you can use them There is a small indicator on the Status
105. ry Banks Frequency analysis Histograms HEAD PENDING ACQ BANK LEVELS HIGH A AUTO VISILAB 15 t TECHNOLOGIES Down INDEX CAINBRATION INUSE NU ONE Anes C gt 31 dic iun MUTLpont DC i t 30 1 2008 Ji Primary E me 14 19 28 Cover button ON OFF button for The Item counter is displayed in Burst the numeric display mode when ON The count will swap with the signal name at regular intervals Figure 17 1 The Numeric Display for showing the selected data channel SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual When stopping the program it is not necessary to end this feature from working Before you can do any setup on this page you need to click on the small button edge at the left edge of the small black cover It acts as a simple lock and opens and closes it You can select the signal select either one decimal or no decimals for the reading and you can bypass the regular measurement unit by pressing the small button You can edit your own private unit for this measurement or even show a four letter message See Figure 17 1 The available channels are as follows 0 7 Moisture from Multiple Slaves page channels 0 7 signal A or any other primary signal according to model 8 15 Web temperature from Multiple Slaves page channels 8 15 signal B or any other secondary signal according to model
106. ry bank Instead the meter accumulates the Burst count of samples and calculates the average of these This value is put into the current bank and offered asthe moisture reading for all interfaces The value remains the same until the next triggering event occurs To make the Burst mode function correctly 21 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual turn on the mode and set the Burst count The count should be selected according to the estimated number of samples the meter is able to measure while the sheet or piece is under the meter Update The settings As soon as the optical edge sensor detects an incoming sheet the actual sampling starts and stops after getting the preset count of points the average is calculated and put into the bank The same value is then given to all interfaces The resulting curve in Acquire looks as stepwise changing and does not have any dips or peaks in values caused by the gaps between the sheets There is also an item totalizer involved and it is shown optionally on the Numeric display page Refer to the meter s User s Guide for more details This mode has lots of special uses is piecewise webs A good example is a printing machine which prints dark colours on the web or sheets and moisture measurement is not reliable on those areas However if you add an optical sensor for triggering you can pinpoint to the exact position where moisture is reasonably acquired By having just a few points the
107. s running in the background On this page you have eight channel selectors statistics displays for each channel a graphical display and the Print button By pressing one of the channel keys you can retrieve any old data file as long as you know where it is and what is its name While moving the cursor over the name of the retrieved file you are displayed the file attributes indicating some useful information of the original measuring event The actual data is shown on the graphical display and the corresponding statistics are calculated automatically You can move The cursors to proper points freely The scaling is very much like on the Acquire or Memory Banks pages In this way you can compare and study data and adjust the scaling to make it look best for printing Note however that the data files you can apply here are always the traditional IRMA7 data files The IRMA7Basic and all other xxBasic data files are also fully compatible with the Advanced data files You can not retrieve any of the LVM XML HTML or Datalog files as they are targeted for other Windows applications Refer to Figures 6 1 6 2 and 6 3 22 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Start downloading and saving Selectors for bank num 7 Date and time of original bers to be downloaded data capture I ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER jm Configuration Reportin Network Meter status Acquire Multiple sla
108. s the meter itself The use of Profibus DP and its features will be explained in another document For users of other models or products read carefully this document but ignore such points which are not supported by your product like Keyboard mode Profibus DP cooler etc Select your product model at the first page Configuration All other products currently available from Visilab are supported by this software including all old models too This program has a great number of features most useful for all users It is more advanced than any of the xxBasic or xxMini programs possibly delivered with your meter One can acquire real time data from the meter download memory banks and set up all features of the meters available through the serial port A printer can be used for documentation as well as reporting to HTML files All acquired and downloaded data is saved into the traditional IRMA7 format which is compatible with all spreadsheet programs In addition one can save the same data into various formats for use with other software This program is a true multitasking system capable of performing simultaneously several tasks at the same time You can operate with the memory bank system and control it fully while at the same time acquiring e g real time data for your quality control system The program has been made as simple as possible to use it flexibly There are no menus at all except a few small ones associated with the graphical displays and
109. s will be seen at the four numerical windows at the center Grab the cursor at the vertical line and drag it to the desired position The statistics are updated automatically You can also change the scaling The default vertical scaling is automatic To change the scales you have to right click at the display to see a menu There is an option Autoscale Y which you should change to unmarked Then you can click at the top scale number to edit it and also at the bottom scale number You can set them freely If you get lost with this turn on the Autoscale Y and start again The same applies for the horizontal scale except it is set as fixed scaling to keep the number of samples at 4096 and the last sample number is then 4095 You can change this freely as well There are also buttons for zooming in out or for grabbing at the curve with a hand cursor Feel free to learn how they behave These methods above apply to all graphical displays available in this software If you wish to go OFF LINE the data obtained in the Memory Banks page is not lost when you return back 5 3 Burst Mode There is a special operating mode available in current meters and sensors except in model A called Burst mode It overrides the normal use of the meter and the Autotimer with the memory banks The ideais to collect a burst of samples after receiving a trigger pulse from an external optical sensor causing turning on for the Autotimer The samples are not put into any memo
110. st two points are required for the valid table and not two entries are allowed to have the same numeric value 14 2 Shifting If only a shift in signal is required instead of calibration change use the Shift button after selecting the file No library is required to be used in this case Adjust the shift value with the small control window You can watch the resulting signal and by pressing the Save shifted button a new file is created with a stamped name shown The shifting obeys the following general mathematics shifted scaling data offset No error checking is possible here and all responsibility lies at the user Printed and optionally HTML reports can be generated from this page Refer to Figures 14 1 and 14 2 No automatic saving is done here either You have to press the Save buttons when ready Set offset and scaling Activate a math opera data tile tion to a data file 4 ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Banks Frequency analysis Library Calibration Composer Math Keybod d mode Caposito STATUS Open original fil HEAD ld dios Restore Old index Name hift Offset 25 Lon or v 36 36 Kodak color 168g Now Jt PENDING OVHT AC M0108081139130 ACQ New index Name Scaling Q P e Save shifted 1 J 3o 35 Kodak Color 84g J IS BANK Co Save restored Stamped Filename Stamped filen
111. stopping or when the 4096 samples have been collected The corresponding channel button is pressed Else the data is displayed only The next large button to the right of these is for printing the display graphics You do not have to print out everything unless you really want to All data is always saved into IRMA 7 file format readable with any spreadsheet program too You can later retrieve the files on the Archives page The small number display at the rightmost top corner together with a small LED indicator is the total sample counter It shows the total number of samples acquired after the operation started The LED indicates when data is actively inquired from the meter From it you can determine when the serial bus may be overloaded LED lit all the time That may cause slipping in time schedules see below The Acquisition operation will stop after having 4096 samples taken It will then save data to a file or a set of files as configured on the Configuration page Then it will restart acquiring to have the next set of 4096 points This will continue forever until you explicitly stop the acquisition You can change the way data is acquired by adjusting the time interval 0 05 to 3600 seconds at the center box Interval control Overloading will happen if you try to acquire too many signals at a too fast rate It is not recommended to change the interval after starting acquisition You can do it but in various cases you may meet unexpected
112. sulting meter status The next button Beep will cause an audible sound at the meter if it is equipped with a buzzer some models have it always Press it and then update You should hear a short tone signal The meter s optical head temperature is very important if it is installed into warm conditions You can only read the temperature The last two fields indicate the total usage of the meter in hours and the unit used in the meter itself See Figures 3 1 to 3 3 The second box is marked as General The signal gain can be either autoranging or locked and The button indicates the present status The voltage output can be controlled to reproduce any of the signals available from the meter Moisture web temperature head temperature expansion module or extra temperature or other signal names according to the product and model You can switch between options by pressing the arrows at the left edge of this small window The third field is the web temperature offset required sometimes if the thermometer has some drift in its reading The next field is the meter s light source s frequency in Herz The next box marked Status bytes contains all 24 status bits explained in the meter s manual in more detail reflecting various system features and settings You can only read these indicators The following box has two buttons and an LED indicator The CHECK STATUS can always be used safely without activating anything The UPDATE SETTINGS updates the mete
113. t System 49 12 1 Introduction 49 12 2 Preparation 49 12 5 Expert 49 12 4 Generate 49 12 5 Edit 50 12 6 Update 50 12 7 Fine Tune 52 14 Mathematics Page 54 14 1 Restoring 54 14 2 Shifting 55 15 Network Page 56 16 Reporting Page 58 16 1 Selections for Reporting 58 16 2 Standardization 58 Ui A W 16 4 Automatic Standardization 59 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 16 5 Level Monitoring 60 16 6 Audible Alarm 60 16 7 Control Files 60 17 Numeric Display Page 61 18 Autorun 63 19 Service Page 65 20 OFF LINE Use 67 21 Note for Users 68 22 Appendix A High Speed Serial Port 69 22 1 1 Configuring the High speed Serial Port 69 23 Appendix B Error Message Dialogs 70 23 1 1 Some of the Most Important Error Messages 70 23 1 2 Incorrect Asynchronous Serial Port 70 23 1 3 Incorrect Path or Nonexistent File 70 23 3 4 User Interrupt or Nonexistent File 71 23 1 5 Trying to Open a Nonexistent Settings File 72 23 1 6 Trying to Open a Nonexistent License File 73 Index 74 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 1 Introduction This document instructs you on how to use the Advanced PC user interface program with your product Refer to the instrument s own user s manual covering detail
114. tely after creation Select a valid path or folder for it It can be in another computer accessed via network On this page you select which task will create the files and at which time interval Do not make the interval too small since file creation in Windows is not a fast operation especially if the folder is elsewhere The files are named with the familiar date and time stamp plus other information making them always unique The contents of the file are in ASCII form readable with almost any general program containing the latest moisture value 60 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 17 Numeric Display Page Sometimes the need arises for having a large high contrast display which can be seen at a long distance For example the paper mill s operators often need it while adjusting the machine or they do their usual machine supervision drills The Numeric Display page allows one to select any of the acquired data channels and display its latest value at a pace of one reading per second The channel can be reselected anytime The display s one decimal accuracy is available if the reading s whole part does not exceed 99 If higher readings are required disable the decimal Alarm LED Alarm clearing button blinking when alarm is ON Library Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito STATUS Configuration Reporting Network eter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memo
115. tion and data files it is recommended to set the two fields in this same box as well The file path is used for saving the library and meter configuration files in the future The recommended path is C IRMA7 or something like depending on the product you are using The data files generated during operation are saved into another directory whose path you can set in the lower dialog The recommended path is C IRMA7 DAT You can also use the small directory dialog buttons to the right to select and even create new paths You can use any valid folder or directory names for these options Just make sure they are both defined Using the Windows suggested My Documents folder is a good working place too with minimal accessibility problems which may be a nuisance in Windows Vista Create a few folders branching from this 9 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual There is a control file folder required too even if you are not using this feature That is the folder where run time control data files are saved The suggested folder might be C IRMA7 CTL You can change it to anything more suitable for you Pressing the Save settings key will save the settings inside this box when starting the next session Also the most important settings on the Multiple slave page are saved Notice that changed settings are effective only after entering OFF LINE first Most of the operations available in this software are usable only if you h
116. tiple slaves operation and you have selected to have the LVM XML and Datalog files you will have files with the following names See below an example directory listing Data of last modify size file name 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 28 984 HT0307041130420 ACO 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 65 612 HT0307041130420 ACQLOG 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 28 834 HT0307041130420 ACOXML 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 85 975 HTACQ0307041130420 LVM 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 28 899 0307041130424 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 65 536 M0307041130424 ACOLOG 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 28 758 M0307041130424 ACOXML 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 85 888 MACQ0307041130424 LVM 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 28 983 WTO307041130424 ACQ 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 65 612 WT0307041130424 ACQLOG 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 28 834 WT0307041130424 ACOXML 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 85 971 WTACQ0307041130424 LVM 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 28 908 XM0307041130421 ACO 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 65 536 XM0307041130421 ACQLOG 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 28 758 XM0307041130421 ACOXML 03 07 2004 11 31 AM 85 896 XMACQ0307041130421 LVM 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 28 909 XT0307041130424 ACQ 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 65 536 XT0307041130424 ACOLOG 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 28 758 XT0307041130424 ACOXML 03 07 2004 11 30 AM 85 897 XTACQ0307041130424 LVM 03 07 2004 11 41 AM 651 785 M0307041140380 LVM 03 07 2004 11 41 AM 28 899 M0307041140381 BNK 03 07 2004 11 41 AM 65 536 M0307041140381 BNKLOG 03 07 2004 11 41 AM 28 758 M0307041140381 BNKXML 03 07 2004 11 43 AM 33 012 M0307041143274 SPE 03 07 2004 11 43 AM 69 649 M0307041
117. ture can be left inactive If you wish to use a calibration table for linearization it is required to have 2 to 10 points in use Deflection from this will cause invalid signal data Refer to Figure 10 1 Note that raw signal means the nonlinear signal from the meter It is usually scaled up with 100 to get more significant numbers into use The QUICK calibration is usually applied for scaling Sometimes not really recommended it is used to have a two point calibration That does not linearize anything of course Besides it affects all liorary entries which are in QUICK mode Thus we strongly recommend that you keep the QUICK only for scaling and use the actual table entries for calibration linearization and proper scaling 2 10 points To set up the coefficients of QUICK you need to enter the numbers in the Keyboard mode as described in detail in the corresponding product s manual To edit a calibration do the following O Select a suitable material with the buttons at the bottom edge of the program display CHECK UP DOWN etc We assume you already have the calibration point data available O Then press the GET material button to copy the table from the meter to the program s memory for editing You will immediately see a curve if it can be displayed at all and the first data point in the box marked Calibration of material O Press the button Edit to start editing You can edit the name of this material and the number of points
118. uency Analysis Page 32 G GET material 41 global commands 56 H Help 7 HIGH 60 high level 60 High speed 69 High speed Serial Port 11 HTML 26 75 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Incorrect Asynchronous Serial Port 70 Incorrect Path or Nonexistent File 70 Initialize 66 Installation of the PC program 6 Interval 16 Introduction and Taking into Use 6 IRMA7BASIC 6 item totalizer 22 K Keyboard Mode Page 47 L LAN232 11 69 level crossing 60 Level Monitoring 60 library 39 Library Page 39 license 11 license file 6 LOG 26 LOW 60 low level 60 Low Power 57 LVM 22 26 LVM file 58 M MO 7 26 Macro commands 21 Manual Adjust 42 Manual Operation 19 Manual Standardization 58 marker 18 37 Match indices 57 match the calibration table indices 57 Material in PC library 39 Mathematics Page 54 Memory Banks 19 Memory Banks Page 19 message window 11 Meter Status Page 12 moisture level crossing indicators 60 moisture restoration 54 Multi slave Operation 11 N Network Explore task 9 76 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Network page 36 Normal 57 69 Normal speed 11 NOTE 11 Note for Users 49 68 OFF LINE 10 OFF LINE Use 58 67 Old SW inmete 9 ON LINE 9 oval buttons 7 Overloading 16 P Percent Calculation 45 Predefined 17 Prepare 49 Primary slave 11 Profibus DP 66 R recalibrated 54 Regular Calibrat
119. up 64 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 19 Service Page The Service page allows access to some low level things and for redirecting the analog outputs The first box is a meter diagnostics task By pressing once the DIAGNOSE button a sequence of commandsis started and some data is inquired from the meter The purpose is to decide if the meter is somehow outside of its internal operating parameters or otherwise in too difficult conditions In case of dirty windows it can detect that too The Signal Quality variable contains some critical information of the meter packed together When the meter is installed the setting should be checked and the button Initialize should be pressed When exiting the program the settings should be saved Then also the Initial value is saved and one can compare the meter operation against it in the future If something is not allright it will be indicated here and the big LED to the right will turn on in red colour An explanation will be presented below it of the cause of the fault ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER E Jn Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Library STATUS Calibration Composer Math Keyboard mode Service AK30 Memory banks HEAD Works For model D sw 1 57MDF and up es DIAGNOSE Save settings when exiting if SQ Initial changed SQ Level of Initial FAILURE
120. ves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Histograms Library amines Composer Math Keyboard mode Caposito AK30 Memoly banks SUIS B HEAD LINE 25 used in total Tag in file 97 98 2010 gt 10 17 24 OVHT PENDING 13 4096 ProjectName From bank to Abort download JobNumber LOWP BANK 7 05120 0 0 gt x sampling interval 0 200000s KED 07 08 2010 BREAK 10 17 24 STDZE Current bank Samples Filename M0708101017243 BMK Seri channel Moisture iB 1 64 M0708101017243 BNK_Series ff From AK30 9388 6 10 2010 15 29 Average i Exp mod Not available 0 CAL gi Std dev p REFL 163 0 557 COMP Cursor 0 Plot 29 6 8886 Minimum Maximum DAE MUL 88 cursor 1 amp 6 45 8 021 Plat 0 18_ 6 454 Statistics hetween cursors EH 90 Plot 0 NUM HELP FREQ ARCI LEVELS HISTO HIGH ADJ MATH LOW WATCH STATUS AUTO AUTO SIGNAL SAFE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 D 1 D 1 1 1 1 1 1 aj 1 1 tt EXIT 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 TEMP f sample ae CHECK Fast Down INDEX CALIBRATION IN USE Ub Fast 7 8 2010 Y ote P D 05120 DC D 10 17 31 AM slave TM 96 21 _ Stamped filename after Abort button for downloading and saving data transfer Figure 5 2 The AK30 Memory Banks page 23 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 6 1 Data files When you run the Acquire or Mul
121. ways saved as usual but the Run Time Filter is not saved for next session in this program 12 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual Check the current meter settings and status Force packet Update the shown protocol settings to the meter ADVANCED PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Cdipration Math Keyboard mode Service AK30 Memory banks STATUS Configuration Reporting Network Meter status Acquire Multiple slaves Archives Numeric Memory Banks Frequency analysis Library l HEAD 25 ink STATUS IRMA7 D V1 57MDF 1 Low power Beep Head T C OVHT gen OFF PENDING gt ERTS Serial 276 ACQ Usage h 3355 6 Unit Onine fiter LOWP Meter information MEET BANK UPDATE SETTINGS Checked l KBD Checked Low level High level l BREAK STDZE io go Check filter a ae _ Status bits for model D only x selles 7 CAL BYTED BYTE 2 00 Filter REFL Power Oper mode Cooling enable SPECIAL COMP Normal Normal 7T Web Temp LPF RM Comm s Analog out Cooling status o NET Packet P Signal OK NUM Linearization Quiet boot Cooling linked Autotimer Link autotimers BRK suspected Force pocket 4 LEVELS ARCH Batch TRUE MM NO HIGH ADJ Autotimer Web break Web temp LPF WATCH T autotimer Session start OVHT ALARM ox STATUS OFF NO Clear AUTO Gain locki
122. wise in Windows You can press buttons type in text fields etc The only remark at this point is that please do not end editing by pressing the Enter key as you may have accidentally have some button selected This is rare but may cause unexpected reactions at times Instead click the cursor of the mouse to any other safe location on the program s panels to stop data entry or modification Cursor Tip Help Most buttons and display items have a built in short textual description the purpose or use of each Just move the cursor over the item and quickly you will see the text which will soon disappear The SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual same applies to retrieved file names where you can see some attributes of the data in it This may prove useful as the start and stop times and sampling interval are declared New Models Many new product models manufactured by Visilab are supported by this program You can use them just like they were a special kind of moisture meters with some minor specifific features SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 2 Configuration Page Before starting to use the program you need to check the settings with yellow background port meter model and slave address They need to be set before you can start communicating with the meter in ON LINE state The port selection is highly important and refers to the serial port your meter is connected with in your
123. y m Meter Menu Autotimer ON OFF s Take a sample 1 Low Power ON OFF b Bank change 8 Auto Batch modes 7 Gain lock ON OFF if supported lt gt Bar scale Statistics amp clear data 4 5 Start stop T autotimer Up Down PgUp PgDown scroll lists 6 Stats clear T D Fast palette PROCESS SENSOR DATA LOGGER Figure 11 1 The Keyboard mode page 48 SOFTWARE FOR PROCESS METERS AND SENSORS Advanced User s Manual 12 Composer Expert System 12 1 Introduction The Composer Expert System is now available in this software It has been available in IRMA 7 model D moisture meters for a few years In this program it is still easier to use Its features are similar to the regular system in the meter One who has used it should have no problem in using this one This feature applies only for moisture meters and has no use in other products In a few seconds you can generate and start using a new calibration specific to your paper grade The small tasks needed here are to be followed in a numerical order as marked with numbers The process is done in the software first and then the new table is uploaded to the meter Refer for details and definitions of terms to the Composer Expert system User s Guide Those customers who do not yet have it contact your representative Refer to Figures 12 1 12 2 and 12 3 12 2 Preparation The task starts by selecting first a suitable calibration table entry Feed its ind
124. y too You can match the calibration table indices in all slaves by pressing the button Match indices The index in the primary slave is used as the target Using this button in regular quality control means that you should have similar libraries in all meters in the network connected along the paper machine or process All slaves have now the same calibration table number in use irrespective of its contents Pressing Start and Stop buttons will start and stop the autotimers in all slaves having a small delay caused by the protocol For most accurate triggering use the hardwired triggering option available in all meters The memory banks to be used are always the current memory bank of each meter They have to be set up together with the sampling interval and optional Batch size for each meter Select one meter at a time to be the primary slave and access its features on the Memory Banks page Similarly you can command a single sample to be taken into each meters memory bank by pressing the button Sample To clear all current memory banks press Clear bank You can also set all slaves to Low Power mode or restore them to Normal mode with a single button press Make the selection Normal or Low Power first with the square button and the press the oval button Set Low Power Please read also the note referring to the Keyboard mode page about slow recovery of slaves There is also a numeric control for limiting the search for sl

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