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Wagner Meters Orion 930 Instruction Manual

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  • Page 1 INSTRUCTION MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS 23 Summary of Orion® 930 Features – Low Battery Alert Indication –Auto Shut-Down to Preserve Introduction Battery Life Orion® 930 Parts – Calibration of your Orion® 930 –Protective Rubber Boot for Your Quick Start: Basic Use for Orion®...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    INTRODUCTION The 2.0-inch (50mm) wide by 2.5-inch (63mm) long by either .25-inch (6mm) or .75-inch (19mm) thick sensor field of your Orion® moisture meter closely Congratulations! approximates the full-thickness cross- You have purchased one of the most accurate section method used when performing the moisture measurement instruments for wood ASTM D4442-16 oven-dry lab method.

  • Page 4: Orion 930 Parts

    PLATE moisture measurements, with unsurpassed convenience and ease of use. BATTERY COMPART- MENT *Information available upon request.**Contact a Wagner Meters expert at 844-689-0660 if your (Meter Serial wood is very hot or frozen. Number is located in this compartment)

  • Page 5: Quick Start Basic Use For Solid Wood

    Wagner’s extensive Species Database. If you still cannot find DOWN button or DEPTH button. The Depth setting will change the correct setting, contact a Wagner Meters expert at 844-689-0660. from 3-4 or ¾” to 1-4 or ¼” or vice versa.

  • Page 6: Correct Usage Guidelines For Your Orion® 930 Moisture Meter

    Orion® 930 making sure the rectangular sensor plate meter, Wagner Meters recommends that area on the back of the meter is pressing you pay close attention to the following firmly on the wood surface and completely guidelines: covered by the wood.
  • Page 7 Your Orion® 930 meter was designed If the sensing area is not completely for wood thicknesses from .25 covered, your moisture reading will (6mm) to .50 (13mm) in ¼” mode be inaccurate. and .75 inches (19mm) up to 1.5 inches (38mm) in ¾” mode. If you If there is visible moisture or water wish to measure wood pieces with on the surface of the wood or material...

  • Page 8: Function Buttons: Detailed

    with unusual characteristics. Additional active. In other words, turning off the meter measurement corrections may be necessary will not cause the meter to revert to factory if you are measuring lumber that is frozen, default settings, but will retain whatever salt water-permeated, or is treated with CCA, settings you programmed it with.

  • Page 9: Up And Down Buttons

    NOTE: Meter will shut down automatically button, DOWN button or DEPTH button after 60 seconds if the meter is left on HOLD is pressed, the Depth setting will change with no measurement activity. Pressing the (e.g. from 3-4 to 1-4) or vice versa. Press ON/HOLD button for 2 seconds will turn the the ON/HOLD button to store the setting.

  • Page 10: Species/Material Button

    SPECIES/MATERIAL you are in the Standard Measurement Button mode. More information concerning Relative Scale can be found on page 20. The SPECIES/MATERIAL button on your Orion® Meter Calibration mode. Follow the 930 is used to place your meter into one instructions on page 25 to perform of three different modes by pressing the your own field calibration using...

  • Page 11: How To Program A Species Setting

    How to Program a Species Setting setting of the meter by .01 each time for Different Wood Species a button is pressed and will update the display accordingly. FIRST, consult the Species Settings Booklet and locate the correct species setting that If the UP button is held corresponds to the type/species of wood down for 0.7 seconds, the...

  • Page 12: Relative Scale For Moisture

    reached, the setting will wrap around to the Relative Scale for Moisture Measurement minimum (.20) and continue to increase of Non-Wood Building Materials from there. Similarly, when continuing to press the DOWN button, if the minimum As mentioned earlier, this setting of .20 has been encountered, the mode can be entered by setting will wrap around to the maximum...
  • Page 13 without having to continually look at the Once the setting has been increased to the digital display. maximum programmable MC% threshold (32%), the setting will wrap around to the Press the AUDIO button and the display minimum (5%) and continue to increase will show the current moisture content from there.

  • Page 14: Low Battery Alert Indication

    SUMMARY OF Low Battery Alert Indication ORION® 930 FEATURES When the battery is low, BAT appears • Digital display resolution of 0.1% in the upper right-hand corner of the (in Standard Measurement mode) display. If ignored for too long, the meter •...

  • Page 15: Calibration Of Your Orion® 930

    Calibration of Your Orion® 930 Place the meter on the CR, correctly “seating” the meter sensor pad firmly If you have reason to believe your on the recessed area of the CR. Orion® 930 may be out of calibration, IMPORTANT: Failure to correctly it can be easily recalibrated using the and firmly “seat”...

  • Page 16: Protective Rubber Boot For Your Orion® 930

    Reference with the boot off. for Your Orion® 930 7-Year Warranty In an effort to help avoid damage resulting from Wagner Meters offers an industry-best 7-year your Orion® 930 meter warranty on your Orion® 930 moisture being dropped or banging meter.

  • Page 17: Wagner's Intellisense

    • 60 seconds and give inaccurate readings that cost you Measurement Ranges money. However, Wagner Meters’ hand- • MC range for wood: 4.0% to 32.0% held moisture meters with IntelliSense Specific Gravity Range for Wood Species technology measure moisture IN the wood, •...

  • Page 18: Changing The Battery

    Replace with 9-volt, Wagner Meters’ warranty offers this product non-rechargeable Alkaline or Lithium protection against defects in material and or rechargeable NiMH batteries. Be workmanship for seven (7) years from the date sure to observe proper battery polarity.
  • Page 19 Wagner Meters has no control over PURPOSE. Under no circumstances shall the manner in which the unit will be used, Wagner Meters be liable for any incidental or it makes no guarantee that the meter will consequential damages. Agents and employees...
  • Page 20 Notes Notes...
  • Page 21 Rogue River, OR 97537 Worldwide Toll-Free: 844-689-0660 WWW.WAGNERMETERS.COM ©Wagner Meters 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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