Paragon DTC 1000 Operation & Maintenance Instructions Manual page 3

Contents
Getting Started
Safety Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Testing and Recording . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Room Temperature and Humidity . . 4
IdLE and CPL Messages. . . . . . . . . . 4
Which Instructions to Use. . . . . . . . . 4
Care of the Thermocouple . . . . . . . . 5
Display Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Correcting Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Stop Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cool-Down Temperature Display . . 5
Repeat Firings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Program Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pyrometric Witness Cones
In Ceramic Firings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
When Kiln Shuts Off Too Soon . . . . 6
Portable Controller
(TnF II) Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Ceramic Cone-Fire
Cone-Fire Quick Reference . . . . . . 23
Basics
Firing Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Cone-Fire Programming . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Pre-Heating the Ware . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
AOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Advanced
Cone Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Firing History in Cone-Fire . . . . . . . 8
Fine-Tuning Shelf Cones
With Cone Offset (CnoS) . . . . . . . . . 8
Interpreting Cone Bending . . . . . . . . 9
When Cone Temperature is
Off More Than 50°F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ramp-Hold
Ramp-Hold Quick Reference . . . . . 24
Basics
User Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
AOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ramp-Hold Programming . . . . . . . . 10
Advanced
Segments for Controlled Cooling . . 11
Skip Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sample Firing Schedules . . . . . . . . . 11
Cone-Fire Program
Modified in Ramp-Hold . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sculptured Stoneware Bisque
Firing Schedule, Cone 04 . . . . . . . . . . 11
Glass Fusing Firing Schedule . . . . . . 11
Glass Slumping Firing Schedule . . . . 12
16 Segment Firing (16-S) . . . . . . . . 12
Additional Features
Selecting °F or °C (CHG°) . . . . . . . 12
°F/°C Temperature
Conversion Formula. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Delay Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Temperature Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting Alarm From Idle. . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting Alarm During Firing . . . . . . . 13
Present Status:
Current Segment &
Circuit Board Temperature . . . . . . . . 13
Checking Circuit Board
Temperature From Idle . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Power Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Firing Ceramics After an
Extended Power Failure . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Thermocouple Offset (tCoS). . . . . 14
Setting Thermocouple Offset . . . . . . 14
Options Quick Reference List . . . . 14
Turning Off Error Codes (ErCd). . 15
Trouble-Shooting &
Maintenance
Element Glow Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Board Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Controller Display
Does Not Light Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Controller Display Lights
Up Normally, Some or All
Heating Elements Do Not Fire . . . . 16
Firing Interrupted by PF or ErrP . . 17
FAIL Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Err 0 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Err 1 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Err 2 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Err 3 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Err 4 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err 6 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err 8 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err A Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err B Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err d Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err E Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err H Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Err - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
StUC Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Erratic Temperature Readings . . . . 20
Overfire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Stuck Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Relay Chatters or Buzzes . . . . . . . . . 20
Kiln Switch Box Fuse
Blows Repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Unwanted Beeping Sound . . . . . . . . 20
Replacing Switch Box Parts
Circuit Board Fuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Thermocouple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
TnF II Thermocouple . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Controller Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Transformer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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