Summary of Contents for TPM AMT506
- Page 1 AMT506 COLORIMETERS Professional Color Detection Tool Rubber Spray-paint Hardware Building Electrical Printing Suitable for multi-industry’s color analysis and quality control of Color difference...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
7.2 Battery test…………………………….. ……….. ……..…..…………... 17 7.3 Safety instruction …………………………….. ……….. ………..…….. 17 8. Software driver installation 8.1 Interface description …………………………….. ……….. ………..……17 8.2 Connection the AMT506 ………………………….. ……….. ………..…..17 ………………………………………………………….. 18 8.3 USB installation... - Page 3 9. Software instructions 9.1 Operating instructions …………………………….. ……….. ………..… 21 9.2 Interface description …………………………….. ……….. ………..……21 9.3 Save and open…………………………….. ……….. ………..…..21 …………………………………………………….22 9.4 Standard management ……………………………………………………..22 9.5 Tolerance judgment ……………………………………………………..
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Page 4: Summarize
The interface we design the menu type, because it is simple and easy to understand. Our AMT506 is not only widely used on Quality department to test the color difference, but also used on the school teaching, scientific research, and color design. -
Page 5: Accessory
□ Do not use the AMT506 in areas where dust, smoke, corrosive gases into the instrument inside, it may cause the damage of instrument. □ Do not use the AMT506 near equipment which produces a strong magnetic field, it would cause data exception of instrument. -
Page 6: Architectural Feature And Working Principle
2 Architectural feature and working principle 2.1 Architectural feature 2.1.1 Colorimeter 1 USB port 2 Micro- printer port 3 AC adapter port 4 Test key 5 Keyboard 6 LCD 7 On/off 8 Dust cap 2.1.2 Keyboard... -
Page 7: Working Principle
2.2 Working principle According to the CIE’s light of tristimulus principle, the standard illuminant irradiates to the object surface, it would spread to the micro-computer to calculation and analysis, after the sensor receives the reflected light information. The color space would display the digital color data at the same time, and it would calculate the color difference between the standard and sample, formula as follows: △... -
Page 8: Technical Characteristic
4 Using the AMT506 4.1 Turning the Power ON: Insert 4 AA size batteries or connect the AC/DC adapter, and turn the power ON in the side face, the AMT506 would enter the operation interface after a “beep” tone, as shown below:... -
Page 9: Standard Measured
Note: You can enter the test mode directly, but if it not calibration for long times, you should calibrate the instrument first to ensure the measurement accuracy. 4.2 Standard measured When turn it on, the instrument would automatically enter the test interface, the default mode, Illuminant and Color space is single mode, D65/10°... -
Page 10: Sample Measured
4.4 Sample measured Press the ‘Test’ key to test sample after you enter the sample measured interface, and it would show the color difference between the standard data and sample data, please press the ‘Save’ key to save the color difference data, it would display the color difference number in the upper right of the current interface. -
Page 11: Single Mode
5.1 Test setup Select the << Test setup>> of the menu selection interface to enter the test mode interface, select << Illuminant selection>> << Color space selection>> <<Test mode>> . Notes: It would automatically retain the settings if you select to exit. 5.1.1 Single mode It would enter the sampling test interface after you select the <<Single mode>>, you can do sampling test directly, the default test mode is Single... -
Page 12: Average Mode
5.1.2 Average mode Now we are enter the average times interface, the Average mode is suitable for testing uneven color and large areas surface. According to the actual situation, we can press the arrow key to select the appropriate average times, as shown below: After select the desired average times, press the ‘Enter’... -
Page 13: Tolerance Setup
5.2 Tolerance setup Tolerance setup is setting the qualified color difference data, which should be the maximum, allowable; after you setup, it would automatically determine if the measured item is qualified or unqualified. Select the <<Tolerance setup>>, and press the ‘Enter’ key to enter the tolerance setup interface, the default data is 0.5, you can press arrow keys to adjust the tolerance. -
Page 14: Pc Communication
Set the white calibration and zero calibration here, and after finish this step, it would enter test interface. 5.5 PC communication The AMT506 can connect the computer through our software, it would extend more functions of the instrument. Note: After you enter the PC communication interface, then the instrument can... - Page 15 System setup Set the ‘Time setup’, ‘Formatting’ and ‘Language setup’ in this interface. 5.6.1 Time setup Press the ‘Year’, ‘Month’, ‘Date’, ‘Hour’ and ‘Minute’ to set of the << Time setup>> interface, and press the arrow key to correct, press ‘Enter’ key to finish the setting.
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Page 16: Formatting
5.6.2 Formatting The function is clear all the data of the instrument, press ‘Enter’ to start formatting, and the ‘Esc’ to exit. Warning: Be careful! All data would be lost if you confirm formatting. 5.6.3 Language selection There are Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English three languages to select, please according to the demand to select the operation language. -
Page 17: Save,Check And Call-Out
6 Other functions explaining 6.1 Save, Check and call-out It not default to save the data when you measure, if you want the data save, measure the standard, you should press the ‘Save’ key to save it, and we can save 50 sets standard data, use the symbol ‘T’... -
Page 18: Micro-Printerto Print
Safety instruction If the AMT506 would not use for a long time, disconnect the AC outlet to prevent battery damage and corrosion the instrument. If it is DC power, also need remove the battery, it may damage the AMT506. -
Page 19: Software Driver Installation
USB connection interface when you press Enter key. 8.3 USB installation □ Put the CD to the CD-ROM, and insert the USB cable to the USB port of AMT506, it would appear‘Found new hardware’, as shown below:... - Page 20 □ It would popup the dialog box later. □ Click ‘’Next’’ to install, or install the specific location from the list.
- Page 21 □ 4 Click‘Browse’ to find the ‘Driver File’ in the CD-ROM directory, and click ‘Next’,the installation wizard will automatically install the driver. □ Click ‘Finish’, the driver has finish the installation.
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Page 22: Software Instructions
Software instructions 9.1 Operating instructions 1. Press ‘Connect’ after you install the software, if it appear the ‘software successfully connected’, then you can go on next step, if it failed, please check the drive and the connection status. 2. Now we are in the ‘Calibration’ interface, it will enter the operation interface after you finished the calibration. -
Page 23: Save And Open
9.3 Save and open The test data you can save, and we have two formats to select: 1. Color-difference data file (*dat), you can callout the data in next measurement. 2. Excel file(*.xls)，you can edit and print it after you saved, but it can’t callout again. -
Page 24: Tolerance Judgment
9.5 Tolerance judgment We can set the △E*ab、△*Lab of the color difference data, it would automatically determine whether the color difference meet the requirement according to your tolerance range. 9.6 System setup Setting the related information of the measured object and it would form the complete measurement information, it would also automatically generate the relevant information when you print the report. -
Page 25: Print Function
9.7 Print function It would formation the measurement report after the data measurement completed, and we have three output modes: 1. Single report: Output the color difference data of sample and standard in two illuminant source modes. 2. Summary report: The output of each color difference data in the same standard sample batch 3. -
Page 26: Help
We should download the ‘Standard’ data first, and after it finish this step, double-click the standard data, and it would show the checked standard data, and now press ‘Sample’ data, after it you can check the color difference data. 9.8.1 Save and Callout Press the ‘Save to file’... -
Page 27: Troubleshooting Guide
D、no power of the battery D、Change the battery or use the DC adapter E、the instrument no E、Please calibration first, calibration for long times. then go on operation. 3、System halted of the A、the key pressed too fast A、It need pause when AMT506 pressed the button.
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