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BX176 Portable single gas detector Operation manual Please read this manual carefully and thoroughly before using this product Ver:HWWM161229CG...
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Safety information Before using the detector, please carefully read the below safety information first and follow the operate requirement: Please don't use the defective detector. Before using, please check if there is scratch on the detector or spare part missing. Every day before using the detector, you’re suggested to follow 4.3 and do “impact test”...
Table of content 1. BRIEF INTRODUCTION ..............1 2. MAIN FEATURES AND SPECIFICATION ......... 1 2.1 M ................... 1 AIN FEATURES 2.2 S ..................2 PECIFICATION 3. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION ............2 ................... 3 STRUCTURE 3.2 D ....................3 ISPLAY ’...
1. Brief introduction BX176 portable single gas detector (hereinafter referred to as the detector) is an intrinsically safe equipment which can do continuous detecting to combustible gases and toxic gases. It is suitable for combustible and toxic gas leakage detection in underground pipes or mines, it effectively prevents the staffs’...
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual Function Battery voltage Lock or password Buzzer status Vibration status Alarm information Alert or Maximum value Data reading Fault History record(reserved) Clock icon Zero calibration Calibration point or calibrating status ① Data communication icon...
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual 2、 Auto zero-translation, press button for more than ① Confirm the setting parameters, press Close the alarm sound and vibration when alarm happens, press Note: ①This operation need password verification. ②This function is only available for toxic detecting.
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual 6. Show high alarm and low alarm High alarm low alarm 7. Show STEL and TWA value STEL Note: Only toxic detector have this interface. 8. Self-test completed. After the self-test passed, the detector will start a short counting down and begin to warm up.
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual 4.2 Power off When the detector is power on and in detecting mode, press ,the screen will display as below At the same time, buzzer will give several sound, 3s after, screen will display as below, you can lose the button then and the detector will power off.
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual 2. Vibration on/off 3. Key sound on/off ① 4. Data communication mode 5. Password setting Note: ① This function is only available when your purchased detector has this USB communication function integrated. Under detecting mode, press at the same time, screen will show as below and after one second go into user menu.
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual After screen display this figure,press and you can go into data communication ① mode. After screen display this figure,press and then you can change the password of the detector(initial password is 0000) Note: ①...
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual High alarm: extremely rapid sandhi alarm sound alarm light flash ① vibration High concentration protection: ② Slow sandhi alarm sound Alarm light flash Sensor fault: Rapid sandhi alarm sound STEL alarm: ...
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual automatically, please contact to the seller. Memmory error: In this status the detector will try to restore the error automatically, if restoration succeed, the detector will go to calibrating mode, please set the detector according to 4.7, if restoration fail, the detector will power off automatically, please contact to the seller.
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual smallest detecting concentration since power on② etc. Note:①Only available in toxic gas detector. ②Only available in Oxygen detector. 4.7 Automatic zero calibration If the detector’s reading is not “0” in clean air, you can use this below function to do zero calibration.
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual 4.8 Detector’s calibration and alarm’s adjusting To recalibrate the detector or adjust the alarm point, please proceed according to below steps. 1)Enter calibration and alarm adjusting mode. Under power off status, press at the same time for...
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual Under this situation, if press or no operation withinoneminute, the detector will consider current concentration to be as “0” and step into calibration point adjusting mode, if press , the detector will skip the calibrating step and go into alarm setting mode directly, for more details please refer to item 5) and 6).
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual At this time, press or if there is no operation within one minute, the detector will consider the current value to be the calibration gas concentration value and go into calibrating mode. Note:Adjusting range for calibration point please refer to attached list 1.
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual ③ If the input gas cannot reach to half of the calibration concentration within 30s, or if the input gas concentration is beyond the sensor drift range in 3 minutes, the icon “ ” will light on, which means the input gas is not suitable for calibration or the sensor is fault, please contact to the seller.
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual detector will power off automatically. Note: For High alarm adjusting range please refer to attached list 1. 5. Charge the battery When the detector indicates low voltage or the detector automaticaly power off due to undervoltage, please charge the battery for the detector in time:after the detector is power off,...
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual Take the communication cable and plug the mini USB portinto the bottom terminal of the detector, connect the other side USB port of the cable with USB terminal of the computer, then install the software from the CD. For detail operation, please read the manual of the software in the CD.
BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual 9. Trouble shooting guidance Failure Possible failure cause Solution Low voltage Charge the detector in time Cannot power on System halted Contact to the seller Circuit fault Contact to the seller response time...
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BX176 portable single gas detector operation manual Attached gas list 1: Target Detecting Low alarm High alarm High STEL range adjust range adjust range alarm alarm alarm alarm 0-100%LEL 10%LEL~25%LEL 25%LEL~80%LEL 20%LEL 50%LEL 0-100%LEL 10%LEL~25%LEL 25%LEL~80%LEL 20%LEL 50%LEL 0-100%LEL 10%LEL~25%LEL 25%LEL~80%LEL...