Testing The Valves - Festo FB16 Electronic Manual

VIFB16 - 03/05

5.3 TESTING THE VALVES

0506b
5. Diagnosis/error treatment
WARNING
Switch off the compressed air supply before
testing the valves.
You thereby avoid undesired or dangerous
movement of the actuators.
CAUTION
• This test function runs automatically within
the terminal. All valves are switched on and
off cyclically.
• None of the programmed locking or switch-
ing conditions will be taken into account.
The terminal makes the following test routines
available with which all the valves are switched
on and off cyclically:
Test routine Meaning
Parallel All valves are switched on and off
simultaneously at 1 s intervals.
Serial All valves are switched on and off one
after the other at 1 s intervals.
Fig. 5/7: Selectable test routines
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