Polimaster PM1406 Quick Start Manual

Polimaster PM1406 Quick Start Manual

Food contamination monitor

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  • Page 2: Delivery Set

    PURPOSE AND SPECIFICATIONS РМ1406 Food Contamination Monitor (hereafter referred “Instrument”) is intended to measure the radionuclide activity in various samples – food stuffs, drinking water, convenience foods, raw food materials and so on. Instrument measures specific (for solid and dry К...
  • Page 3: Using The Instrument

    USING THE INSTRUMENT General information Take Instrument with Marinelli beakers out of the Plastic storage container and place it on a level surface. If you are using the Lead box place the Instrument inside it. Don't drop the Instrument or Lead box on the floor. The lead box is extremely heavy! Insert the supplied CD and install the РМ1406 software on your Windows-...
  • Page 4 subtracted from the sample measurement results to achieve high accuracy of the activity measurement. Background level must be re-measured if ambient environment condition or instrument position changes. Refer to Background Monitoring section for more information. Step 1: Select the appropriate standard (defined by your country) in the “Standard”...
  • Page 5: Main Program Window

    To measure samples with detection thresholds lower than this current value, resume or restart the background measurement (see Step 3) to have a more accurate background value. The background measurement process can take a long time depending on selected standard. Main Program Window Main Program Window is displayed at software start and each time after background measurement is completed.
  • Page 6 • Manage Configurations. Create or select location profiles (Location) if measurement is conducted in different locations. To create a new instrument location profile after selecting the menu item Manage configurations click Add button, then in the window enter the new location name in accordance with the requirements, click Save and close to save the new location.
  • Page 7 Your product will be controlled according to the selected nuclide(s). Set threshold value(s) for the selected nuclide(s) and press Next button. For listed products press Next button to enter directly the sample activity measurement mode.
  • Page 8 Step 2: Prepare the product sample as required. Put the prepared sample into Marinelli beaker. To prepare the sample: Clean and chop product as required to enable sample homogeneity and to properly fill the measuring vessel. Product type Cleaning Chopping Meat, fish, roots, Wash with running Chop using a knife or a...
  • Page 9 etc. Liquid, thick – Thoroughly mix (viscous) food Fill the clean, dry Marinelli beaker full with the prepared sample. Place Marinelli beaker filled with the sample onto Detector and press Next button. Press Start button in the window to start the sample radiation activity measurement.
  • Page 10 • Background accumulation time was too short (insufficient background measurement); • Selected standard doesn't allow current sample estimation. To correct it, either redo background accumulation, or select another standard. If the tested sample is confidently below the limit (Threshold) the sign will be displayed and the message will appear.
  • Page 11: Background Monitoring

    At this time the measurement process will be automatically prolonged to ensure accuracy. It may be stopped at any time. Background Monitoring Background monitoring enables the user to check whether the ambient radiation background changed since initial background measurement. The background monitoring process takes significantly less time than the background measurement process.
  • Page 12: User Settings

    using standard washing liquid. Repeat the Background Monitoring procedure. User Settings Select Customize Options to open the user settings window. Use a scale slider to select required frequency for background monitoring: Never, Before activity measurement, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly. When background checking date is approaching, the Background monitoring line in the Actions menu will be displayed in red.
  • Page 13 • Nonstop - measurement is carried out permanently, regardless of the results; • Fixed - when this option is activated, there is a possibility to set the exact measurement time in a separate window: Checkbox Verification mode exists to carry out the instruments verification. When you select the checkbox Hide values lower than the minimum level, measurement results for samples with activity below the minimum level are displayed as a Not detected conclusion;...
  • Page 14: Measurement Results

    Measurement results Measurements results of the samples activity are stored in the instrument memory and displayed at the bottom of the main program window in the table form. It is possible to save the measurement results using Export function, to print them using Print function (in the upper left corner of the table), or to print a report for each particular measurement using the Report function in the last column of the table.
  • Page 16 Thank you for choosing POLIMASTER! For technical support please contact us via WEB. The contact form is available on our website http://www.polimaster.com/support/repair_form www.polimaster.ru www.polimaster.com www.polimaster.eu www.polimaster.us www.polimaster.jp www.polimaster.de...

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