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AM8060 Precision Thermometer
User's Guide
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Rev. 202310V1

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  • Page 1 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide Please download the latest version at www.accumac.com Rev. 202310V1...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide Table of Contents Important Notice ---- Warning ................2 1 Introduction ....................3 1.1 Main Application ..................3 1.2 Main Features ..................... 3 2 Specifications ....................5 2.1 Specifications ....................5 2.2 Probe Types ....................5 3 User Interface ....................

  • Page 3: Important Notice

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide Important Notice ---- Warning  Check the position of the “Measurement/Calibration Switch” on the rear panel before turning on the device. Please refer to Figure 2. The switch must be at the measurement (left) position. Loss of calibration data will occur if the switch is at the calibration (CAL) position when the instrument is used in measurement application.

  • Page 4: Introduction

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 1 Introduction The AM8060 precision thermometer is a dual-channel PRT readout. It can be used either as a temperature measurement device or a temperature reference standard. It is capable of working together with various types of platinum resistance thermometers (PRTs) and can measure temperatures from two probes simultaneously.
  • Page 5 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide  Wireless real time temperature data capturing with optional external wireless module (optional).  Real time temperature data capturing and saving to flash drive. 4/41...

  • Page 6: Specifications

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 2 Specifications 2.1 Specifications Model 8060 Temperature Range -260°C to 850°C ±0.01°C at -200°C ±0.008°C at 0°C Accuracy (meter only) ±0.009°C at 232°C ±0.01°C at 420°C ±0.015°C at 660°C Resolution 0.001°C (0.0001Ω) over full range Probe Nominal Rtpw: 25 Ω...

  • Page 7: User Interface

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 3 User Interface Front Panel: Display Main Menu U Drive recording Start/Stop button Left key Value Adj Right/Return Key Figure 1: Front Panel Rear Panel: U Drive Interface Probe 1(S1) terminals AC Power Inlet/Switch Measurement...

  • Page 8: General Operations

    4.1 Connecting the probes The AM8060 can work with one or two probes for temperature measurement. Figure 3 shows the rear panel of the AM8060. Probe 1 can be connected to terminals marked with S1, and Probe 2 to S2.
  • Page 9 Line 2, which is indicated with ‘t1’, shows the measured temperature of Probe 1 (S1). The “SPRT” at the end of Line 2 tells the type of probe of Probe 1 (S1). The AM8060 supports two types of probes. “SPRT” indicates a 25Ω or 100 Ω standard platinum resistance thermometer.

  • Page 10: Selecting Units

    4.5 Selecting Sensors/Probes and Adjusting Parameters 4.5.1 Probe Types AM8060 can work with different types of PRTs. Users can choose probe types and input the parameters of the probes. The menu key MENU and return/right shift key can be used for probe selections and parameter adjustments.

  • Page 11: Selecting Sensors/Probe And Parameters Input

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide  If the probe is a standard platinum resistance thermometer, the probe will be displayed as “SPRT”. AM8060 calculates temperature according to ITS-90 standard platinum resistance thermometer equations. 4.5.2 Selecting Sensors/Probe and Parameters Input 4.5.2.1 To select the type of sensor, press the...
  • Page 12 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide Although only “Sensor 1 Setting” is illustrated below, the procedures for Sensor 1 and Sensor 2 adjustments are identical. 4.5.2.2 Press the keys to move the selection line with the “>” symbol to “Sensor 1 Setting”. Press the...
  • Page 13 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide As an example, calibration agencies provide the following parameters after an SPRT is calibrated: Rtp: the probe’s resistance at the triple point of water. a4 and b4: low temperature range parameters. a, b and c: high temperature range parameters (b and c can be “0”...
  • Page 14 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide adjusting and saving the parameters of Rtp and a4 for an SPRT type probe. The other parameter adjustments follow the same process. 4.5.2.6 To adjust Rtp (continuing from step 4.5.2.4) press the key to move the cursor to “>SET Rtp”, and then press the key to go into the Rtp adjustment program.
  • Page 15 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 4.5.2.8 The following is the a4 adjustment procedure (continuing from step 4.5.2.4). Press the keys to move the cursor to “>SET a4”, and then press the key to go into the a4 adjustment program, as seen below: The second line (a4 = - 4.129934e-05) displays the current...
  • Page 16 4.5.2.11 Other parameter adjustments are similar to the above Rtp and a4 adjustment. 4.5.2.12 After all of the desired adjustments are made, users can go back to the main menu by pressing the key multiple MENU times until the AM8060 goes back to the main screen. 15/41...

  • Page 17: Instrument Calibrations And Accuracy Adjustments

    (S1) before calibrations. To calibrate AM8060 in the range from 10 Ω to 50 Ω, R0 (or Rtpw) needs to be set to 25 Ω. To calibrate AM8060 in the range from 50 Ω to 375 Ω, R0 (or Rtpw) needs to be set to 100 Ω.

  • Page 18: 100 Ω Calibration

    5.1.1 Turn off the power, put the measurement/calibration switch to the “CAL”side (right side). Please see Figure 3 for details. 5.1.2 After turning on the power, AM8060 will show the calibration main menu. It can be seen that there are two calibrations required: 100 Ohm CALIBRATION and 25 Ohm CALIBRATION.
  • Page 19 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide * 100 Ohm CALIBRATION ------------------------------------------- Connect a 100 Ohm Standard Resistor and Press Enter Menu= Exit Enter = Yes 5.1.4 The instrument will show the phrase “Connect a 100 Ohm Standard Resistor and Press Enter” to indicate that a 100Ω...
  • Page 20 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide can adjust the value by using the keys. The adjusted result will appear like the picture below: * 100 Ohm CALIBRATION 100R Rs = 100.0038 Rt = 100.0038 Menu= Exit <^v>=Adj 5.1.7 It is required to wait for 10 seconds for the data to be stable.

  • Page 21: Ω Calibration

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 5.2 25 Ω calibration 5.2.1 The process of 25 Ω calibrations is similar to that of 100 Ω calibrations. First, turn off the power of the instrument and ensure the measurement/calibration switch at the rear panel is moved to the “CAL”...
  • Page 22 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide resistance close to 25Ω, otherwise the calibration will not be accurate. key to start the 25Ω calibration. The instrument 5.2.5 Press the will display “Waiting…” for a few seconds while the resistance is calculated, and the following message will...

  • Page 23: Reset The Measurement/Calibration Switch After Calibration

    AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 5.2.7 It is required to wait for 10 seconds to ensure the reading is stable. Each second is shown with a blinking dot at the top left hand corner of the display. The next step is to save the calibrated data to the instrument.

  • Page 24: Wireless Data Acquisition

    6 Wireless Data Acquisition The AM8060 precision thermometer can transmit temperature data through a wireless transmission module. Free software for this feature is included with the AM8060. To transmit data wirelessly, users will need the following:  AM8060-W, precision thermometer with embedded wireless function.
  • Page 25 5) After the installation of the USB driver the user will need to install the free software on the CD included with the AM8060. Insert the CD into the computer’s CDROM drive and copy the file named CDrN_2xAir_Reader.exe to the computer.
  • Page 26 Base RF OK” and “Wireless Remote OK” to confirm the wireless connection. The value after “ADDR” shows the wireless address of the AM8060. The value after “RSSI” is the wireless signal strength, which will not display until the user clicks on “Start”. The RSSI should be greater than - 99dBm.
  • Page 27 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 9) The wireless data acquisition can be halted by clicking on “Stop”, or by clicking on “Exit” to quit the program. The default setting for a sampling period is 1 second. The data acquisition process can be restarted by clicking on “Start”.
  • Page 28 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide The following is an example with a 4 second sample period: 11) The data saved in the file Air2x_data.txt will be in the following format: Time t1(C) t2(C) t1-t2(C) 16:23:19 -4.526 -84.456 79.930 16:23:20 -4.526 -84.456...
  • Page 29 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide The first column indicates the sampling time, which should be the same as the computer time. The second column lists the Probe 1 temperatures, while the third column lists the Probe 2 temperatures. The fourth column is the difference between Probe 1 and Probe 2.

  • Page 30: Using A Flash Drive (U Disk) For Data Acquisition

    USB flash drive. There is a USB port on the rear panel of the AM8060 which can be used to store the measured temperature data to a flash drive. Any flash drive with a size lower than 4 gigabytes can be connected to the “UDrive”...
  • Page 31 USB connector. Once the flash drive is detected by the computer’s OS, users can copy the file over normally. While using the flash drive, the data saving period can be adjusted with the front panel of AM8060. The default saving period is 1.21 30/41...
  • Page 32 1 and 65,535. The instructions for this are as follows: A. When AM8060 is in a normal working state, press the MENU and then press the key.
  • Page 33 N value. For example, the above picture shows the new N value as 9, which means the AM8060 will save data to the file every 9x1.21 seconds. To save this value, press and hold the and then press the key.
  • Page 34 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide F. After the adjustment, press the MENU multiple times until the AM8060 returns to its normal working state. Note: The parameter adjustments should only be performed while the flash drive is not in the data saving process. 33/41...

  • Page 35: Using The Usb Interface For Data Acquisition

    The following section describes the process of setting up a USB temperature data acquisition system: 1) Connect a USB cable to the USB (USB B type) port at the rear panel of the AM8060 digital thermometer to a computer. USB Cable AM8060 Precision Thermometer...
  • Page 36 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide c. The measurement can be started by clicking on “Start”, stopped by clicking on “Stop”, or quit by clicking on “Exit”. The default sampling period is 1 second. The free software “CDRN_USBx2_Reader” also has a data saving function to save the captured temperature to a file, named “U_x2data.txt”.
  • Page 37 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide the data saving. The phrase “Recording…” will be displayed on the screen as the data is saved to the file, named “U_x2data.txt”. To stop the data saving, just click on “END” or “Stop”, and the temperature data saving will be stopped.

  • Page 38: Appendix: Installation Of Usb Driver

    ‘Plug-n-Play’ ability, you can skip the USB driver installation process. Otherwise, please follow the instructions below. The installation of USB drivers are required the first time AM8060 is connected to a computer. The USB drivers for the AM8060 precision thermometer and Wireless Transceiver are the same.
  • Page 39 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 3. Select “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)” and then click “Next”. 4. Click “Browse” to select the CD drive containing the attached CD (in this example, the CDROM drive is E:), then click “Next”.
  • Page 40 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 5. Select “Continue Anyway”. The computer will search for another file, called “FTD2XX.sys”. 6. Click “Browse” to find and select the file named “FTD2XX.sys”, and then click “OK”. After the installation, the computer will display the following screen:...
  • Page 41 AM8060 Precision Thermometer User’s Guide 7. Click “Finish” to end the installation. 8. The computer will display a message saying, “Your new hardware is ready to use” to indicate the USB drivers are correctly installed. 40/41...

  • Page 42: Limited Warranty & Limitation Of Liability

    Each product from AccuMac Technology is warranted to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service. The warranty period is 1 year for Precision Thermometers. The warranty period begins on the date of the shipment.

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