Setting Up Conveyor Applications - Thermo Scientific APEX 100 User Manual

Setting Up Conveyor
Applications
The purpose of this section is to present you with a brief tutorial, allowing you to get
your conveyor application up and running as quickly as possible. Here is an outline of
what you will be learning. If you are already familiar with some of the information
covered, you can always skip ahead to the next section.
Understanding Your Detector
In this section you will learn how to...
• Use the detector's display panel.
• Navigate the detector's menus and sub-menus.
• Set up global parameters for the detector.
Setting Up the Conveyor and Photo Eye
In this section you will learn how to...
• Set up the conveyor parameters.
• Set up the photo-eye parameters.
Setting Product Parameters
In this section you will learn how to...
• Key in pack length.
• Key in no-pack distance.
• Key in pack gap.
Setting Product-Reject Parameters
In this section you will learn how to...
• Key in the distance to the product reject device.
•
Key in the signal duration for the product reject device.
Calibrating Your Detector
In this section you will learn how to...
• Establish a noise threshold with no product present in the search head.
• Calibrate the speed filter using a ferrous (or other) test stick.
• Establish basic product parameters (detect level and phase-angle).
• Have the detector do an AuditCheck learn, if applicable.
Understanding Technical Terms
If you encounter a technical term you do not understand in these sections, please refer
to the Glossary on page 393. For example, the word "product" means anything the
detector is testing for the presence of metal contaminants, and is a word you will
encounter often in this manual.
Let's get started!
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