Table Of Contents - Michell Instruments OptiCal User Manual

Contents
Safety ................................................................................................................................vi
Electrical Safety ...........................................................................................................vi
Toxic Materials .............................................................................................................vi
Repair and Maintenance ...............................................................................................vi
Calibration ...................................................................................................................vi
Safety Conformity ........................................................................................................vi
Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................... vii
Warnings ........................................................................................................................... vii
1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................1
1.1 Description ........................................................................................................ 1
1.2 System Components ........................................................................................... 2
1.2.1 Front Panel ................................................................................................... 2
2 INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................4
2.1 Installing the Relative Humidity and Temperature Control Probes ........................... 4
2.2 Filling the Water Reservoir .................................................................................. 6
2.3 Draining the Water Reservoir ............................................................................... 7
2.4 Desiccant .......................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Power Supply ..................................................................................................... 9
3 OPERATION ....................................................................................................10
3.1 Preparation ...................................................................................................... 10
3.1.1 Installing Relative Humidity Instruments for Calibration ................................. 10
3.2 Start-Up ........................................................................................................... 11
3.3 Local Control of Chamber Temperature and Humidity Set Points........................... 11
3.4 Remote Control of Chamber Temperature and Humidity Set Points ....................... 12
3.4.1 Digital Communications ............................................................................... 12
3.4.2 Putting the Optidew in Remote Mode............................................................ 13
3.4.3 Remote Control - Manual Set Point Control ................................................... 13
3.4.4 Remote Control - Automatic Set Point Control ............................................... 13
3.5 Typical Response Times for Various Step Changes ............................................... 14
3.6 Control Outputs ................................................................................................ 15
4 OPTIDEW REFERENCE INSTRUMENT ................................................................16
4.1 Optidew Display ............................................................................................... 16
4.1.1 Selecting Which 'Screen' to View on the Display ............................................ 16
4.1.2 Description of Screens 1- 8 .......................................................................... 17
4.2 Maintenance .................................................................................................... 19
4.2.1 Removing the Chilled Mirror Reference Sensor for Mirror Cleaning .................. 19
4.2.2 Sensor Mirror Cleaning ................................................................................ 20
4.2.3 Resetting the Mirror Condition ...................................................................... 21
4.2.4 Re-calibration of the Chilled Mirror Reference ................................................ 22
5 APPLICATION SOFTWARE ................................................................................23
5.1 Virtual Hygrometer ........................................................................................... 23
5.2 OptiCal Remote Chamber Control ...................................................................... 24
5.3 Parameter Setup .............................................................................................. 24
5.4 Charting and Logging ....................................................................................... 26
5.5 Statistics .......................................................................................................... 28
5.6 Control Parameters ........................................................................................... 28
5.7 Calibration Correction ....................................................................................... 29
5.8 Change of Password ......................................................................................... 31
6 TROUBLESHOOTING ........................................................................................32
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OptiCal User's Manual
97079 Issue 9.2, March 2016