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UNIVERSAL TENSILE TESTER OPERATION MANUAL XB-OTS-50N ** Thank you for your esteemed company to buy our products ** The operation is simple to use, but the wrong operation will cause the accidents and shorten the life of the device or reduce its performance. Therefore, please be sure to familiarize yourself with this manual before use.
CONTENTS I. Safety Instruction..........................1 Precautions............................1 II. Product Overview..........................2 III. Operation............................5 IV Software Instruction......................... 5 4.1 Introduction of TM2101 measurement and control system............5 Main function........................5 Working conditions......................7 4.2 TM2101 software installation and upgrade guide..............8 The PC hardware’s requirements:..................8 ...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd I. Safety Instruction This machine is to test quality of samples. Please do not use this equipment for purposes other than prescribed tests. Please place this machine under room temperature. Please place this machine under a low humidity environment. (<80%, no dew) ...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd II. Product Overview Suitable for stretching, compressing, bending, shearing, tearing of rubber, plastic, aluminum plastic pipe, composite material, waterproof material, preventing material, yarn, fiber, wire and cable, paper, spring, wood, packing material, tape, etc. The testing of mechanical properties such as peeling can also realize many dead cycle tests such as constant stress, constant strain, creep, relaxation and so on.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Power: 220V Signal socket: It is used for connection between machine and computer. If connection failed, please check the socket. Power lamp: The indicator lights on when turn on the switch. If not, please check the connection of power.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd E-stop switch: In a case of emergency, press this key and disconnect all power supplies. E-stop switch: In a case of emergency, press this Force sensor: Do not hit Limit switch: the upper and lower limit is used to protect the mechanical structure of the instrument and prevent the instrument from hitting up and down.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd III. Operation 1. Connect the power. (Check if the power is 220V.) Check upper and lower limit and adjust the position of them if needed. 2. Open up the computer and software. 3. Turn on the machine, check if the indicator is on. If not, please check if the E-stop button is pressed.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Advanced loosed-loop technology for velocity、displacement and force can achieve precise control of arbitrary waveform. Multiple serial interfaces: Up to 4 channels 24 Bits analog input, 3 channels 16 bits analog input, 3 channels pulse input, 3 channels AB phase optical encoder input, 9 channels switching value input, 8 channels switching value output, 1 USB, 1 RS232, 1 485, 4 types of LCD interface, 1 parallel port micro print interface, 1 serial port micro print interface, 1 8X4 matrix keyboard interface.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Permission management can help you lock any function mode of the software, separate the software into multiple permission levels, make the operation of software more secure. Digital calibration system make the calibration process easily and efficient, double protection on calibration data.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 4.2 TM2101 software installation and upgrade guide The PC hardware’s requirements: 1) CPU: Intel Celeron 2GHz or higher. 2) Memory: >512MB 3) HDD: >2GB 4) Screen resolution: >1024×768 5) A printer(if need print the report) ...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 4)Click “Next>>” button, read the License Agreement in the following dialog: 5) Check “I accept the License Agreement(s)” option and click “Next>>” to enter the next step: 6) Click “Next>>” and start the installation, it may take several minutes, please be patient until the...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd following screen shows. 7) Click “Finish” to complete the installation. It will ask you whether or not to restart the windows system immediately. 8) Click “Yes” to restart your computer. 9) Copy “TM2101V2.xx” folder to local disk and double click to open it 10) Right-click the “TestMaster”...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Software upgrade guide If the drivers have been installed before and previous version of TM2101 software can run, the following steps will guide you to update it to a newer version. Suppose the old version is “TM2101V2.41”...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 3) Right-click the “data” folder of the old version, choose “Copy” in the popup menu: 4) Open the “TM2101V2.42” folder that contains the new version, Right-click to show the popup-menu, choose “Paste”: Add: The 3rd Industrial Zone, Chashan Town, Dongguan. Tel: 0769-33365786 www.ots-testequipment.net...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Choose “All” to overwrite all the data. 5) Delete the old shortcut named “TestMater” on the Desktop. Right-click “TestMaster” executable and choose “Send to..” à “Desktop shortcut” in the popup menu to create a new shortcut: 6) The software is updated.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Quick start 1. Settings before test: Choose or add a test material: Choose or add a test method: 2. Start test: Click ‘start’ or F7 (Reference 4.1 shortcut keys), test button turns to green. Test can automatically or manually end.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Interface Details Add: The 3rd Industrial Zone, Chashan Town, Dongguan. Tel: 0769-33365786 www.ots-testequipment.net...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Software include title bar, menu bar, current volume displaying bar, control panel, testing time displaying, lifting speed of machine, manual check point, material selection and modification, testing methods’ selection and modification, control parameters’ selection and modification, results’ selection and modification, results displaying form, history record operation, report forms operation ,force - displacement curve display and so on.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd repeated open it would cover the last one; Delete record means delete one or more selected records; Add record means new open one or more records based on last one. Report form operation: print form means export report form to the printer for printing execution; Edit report form means open the report form for editing;...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Detailed Information of all functions 1. Log in 2. Authority Management 3. Modify Password 4. Unit System 5. Calibration 6. Online 7. Switch Language 8. Option 9. Register 10. Active 11. Edit Material 12.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Authority Management is in disabled status when log in as Anonymous, as anonymous has the lowest administrative privileges which does not have right of authority management. User permission of all functions can be set in the Authority Management, the selected item shows that user owns permission of it, otherwise does not have.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Choose a unit and accuracy from the drop list, the accuracy means the digits after the decimal point. And the unit determines the unit of the whole system, the operation of all variable must according to this unit system.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd The Calibration Interface contains five tabs: Force Sensor、Displacement Sensor、Rubber Extensometer、Metal Extensometer and System Setting. 1. Calibrate the force sensor Choose the tab “Force Sensor”, see Fig. 6. In the left side, there are four force sensor channels: “50kg”、“0.0kg”、“0.0kg”、“0.0kg”.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 7) Calibrate the third point: The method is same with the second point, if continue to calibrate the third point, the AD value and standard weight value of the third point must bigger than the second point, or the calibration will be inaccurate;...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 2. Calibration of displacement sensor Select “Displacement sensor” tab, see Fig. 7: 1) Fill the displacement coefficient value into the right input box of “Displacement Coefficient”, displacement coefficient means the displacement when the acquisition receive per 1000 pulses,...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 3. Calibration of rubber extensometer If the machine connects with a rubber extensometer (known as the large deformation), you need to calibrate it. Please choose the “Displacement” for “Rubber Extensometer” via click “User Parameter Setting”...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd The calibration process of metal extensometer is same with the force sensor. 5. System Setting Choose “System Setting” tab, see Fig. 10: Add: The 3rd Industrial Zone, Chashan Town, Dongguan. Tel: 0769-33365786 www.ots-testequipment.net...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Velocity Limit: Setting the maximum operate velocity and minimum operate velocity of machine. Reverse the Direction of Tensile and Compress: Determine whether reverse the direction of Tensile and Compress. Reverse the Direction of Up and Down: Determine whether reverse the direction of up and down.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd A fail prompt window will be ejected when connect failed (as shown in Fig. 12), if connect success, no prompt window eject. If the connect success, the software will connect one time when it startups, the software will connect via the current COM at the next startup time, the test can be successful only if the connect successfully.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd There are two tabs in the “Option”: “Color” and “Display”, which can set up the color and display. 9. Registration Click Menu “Help”-> “Registration” or press and hold on the combination keys Ctrl+R (See 3.5 Shortcuts), then you can enter into the registration interface, as shown in Fig.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Click Menu “Help”-> “Activation” or press and hold on the combination keys Ctrl+Shift+A (See 3.5 Shortcuts), then you can enter into the activation interface, as shown in Fig. 16: 11. Material Edit You can choose an existed sample through the drop list of “Sample Data Choose” (As shown in Fig.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Add: Add a new material Delete: Delete the selected material OK: Save all modifies Cancel: Don’t save the modify 12. Test method edit You can choose an existed Project via drop list of “Project Select” (As shown in Fig. 19) or click button “Edit”...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Control Mode Value: The 1~20 steps “Control Mode Value” in the “Results List” Shift Value: The 1~20 steps “Shift Value” in the “Results List” Switch Condition: The percentage of the value of the switching conditions when transform into the...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd prolonged period of constant load test Save Path: The test data will be saved in this path Filter Coe.: Filter Coefficients, the number of mean value filter.Range 1~1000, Normal 5. Break Cut Points: Remove the Last few sample points when the sample fracture Force Resolution: Determine the minimum scale which the system can display Use Default: Use system’s the default control parameter...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Name List: List all existed test results Add: Add a new group of test results Delete: Delete a group of selected test results OK: Save all the modifies Cancel: Don’t save all the modifies The content in the result table is all the needed result for a completed test, you can add a parameter to the table from the parameter list, or do some operation such as delete、...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 15. Report Edit Click button “Edit Report”, you can enter into the report edit interface. As shown in Fig. 26: DONGGUAN XINBAO INSTRUMENT CO., LTD Add: The 3rd Industrial Zone, Chashan Town, Dongguan. Tel: 0769-33365786 www.ots-testequipment.net...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Input the needed information in header, then click button “Print” can print the report directly, Click button “Save as” can save the current report as a Word format file, click button “Close” can exit current file.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Click Menu “Insert”-> “Bookmark” to insert a Curve, as shown in Fig. 28 and Fig. 29: Input bookmark “Graph”, then click 添加(add), the curve will be add to current position of the cursor. In addition, if there has a text format “?**?” in the template and the content between two “?” is same with the character in the test formula table, it will be replaced by the actual value of the test.
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd During the test proceed, click ‘Snap’ or press F10, will fill the current force、displacement and time into the form. During the non-test proceed, click button ‘Snap’, if the cursor is invisible, it will be visible;...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Return : Return to the initial state of the mouse, the mouse must return to initial state if you want to drag the cursor on the curve. Move : Parallel move the curve. Zoom in : Zoom in the curve.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 4.4 FAQ and Solutions Q: Why the ‘online failure’ pops up when I click ‘start test’? A: ‘Online failure’ indicates the software fails to connect with the machine. 1. Check if the serial line connect with the computer. Or if the machine is powered on.
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd 4.5 Functional differences between software versions The software of TM2101 has three versions: Version A (Starter Edition); Version B (Basic Edition); Version C (Professional Edition). The performance differences between versions are as follows: Add: The 3rd Industrial Zone, Chashan Town, Dongguan. Tel: 0769-33365786 www.ots-testequipment.net...
Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd The control method of version A is 1 step, suit for simple one-dimension tension or compression test; The control method of version B is 2 steps, suit for slightly complex test, such as single reciprocating test and holding pressure test with carton;...
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Dongguan Xin Bao Instrument Co., Ltd Total extension strength= Force on total extension point/area. 10. Shear strength Shear strength= Large Force/ (Distance * Width) 11. Shear modulus Shear modulus= (Young’s modulus * Area/ Distance)*Thickness/ (Distance * Width) 12. Maximum bending strength Maximum bending strength=3 * Large Force * Distance / (2 * Width * Thickness * Thickness) 13.
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