Display Messages - Orton Sentry Xpress 4.0 Manual

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The firing was stopped.
(Page 10) Ready for you to enter an alarm
temperature. When the kiln reaches that tempera-
ture, the alarm will sound.
(page 10) Ready for you to edit the target
temperature of the current Ramp-Hold segment
during firing. Example: You are fusing glass to a
temperature of 1450°F. At 1445°F, you look at the
glass through a peephole and realize that the glass
will need at least another 50° to fuse fully. Change
the target temperature to 1560° without having to
turn off the kiln to reprogram it.
(page 6) This is the prompt for Cone-Fire
mode. Press the
The controller is then ready for you to select a pyro-
metric cone number.
Fired to completion.
(page 4) Delay is a count-down timer that
starts the firing when the time runs out.
or (and temperature) (page 8) The
controller is ready for you to enter the target temper-
ature (the temperature that the kiln will fire to). Each
segment in Ramp-Hold mode has a target tempera-
ture.
Full power firing rate. At this setting the kiln
will fire at its fastest rate. Select a rate of 1799°F /
999°C at the prompt in Ramp-Hold mode. A
fast way to do this is to press the
once from .
14 Cone-Fire / Ramp-Hold
key to select Cone-Fire.
will appear.
(page 8) Hold time of a segment, shown in
hours and minutes. (Example: 2 hours and 15 min-
utes = 02.15)
(Page 10) Add Hold Time: During a firing,
you can extend the hold time of a segment without
having to first stop the firing to reprogram the
controller.
(page 3) The controller is ready for you to en-
ter a program or to begin a repeat firing.
Firing has begun. A moment after
pears, you will hear the relay(s) clicking.
Ramp-Hold programs stored in memory.
Ramp-Hold programming for each segment. 1, 2,
etc. are segment numbers. Enter the rate of temper-
ature change for that segment. Rate is figured in de-
grees of temperature change per hour. Example:
A temperature rise of 100° in two hours = 50° rate.
A temperature drop of 200° in one hour = 200° rate.
(Skip Step) (page 10) This message ap-
pears when you press the
Ramp-Hold firing. You can skip out of a segment
into the next segment.
The firing was stopped by pressing
The "Ready to Start" message appears after
programming a firing. Press
Thermocouple Offset (press the
lay (press the
message.
key
(Page 13) Adjust the controller to fire hotter
or cooler.
(page 8) These are
etc. (Rate) (page 8) This appears in
.
) are accessed from the
ap-
key during a
to begin firing.
) and De-