MiniAV®-X Automatic Viscometer Instruction & Operation Manual 81.2254 i CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION/INSTALLATION 1 The miniAV®-X Automatic Viscometer .................................................................................. 1 Measuring kinematic viscosity ............................................................................................... 2 Safety cautions ..................................................................................................................... 2 Specifications ....................................................................................................................... 4 Installation ............................................................................................................................ 4 Required installation components ............................................................................... 4 Vacuum Pump unit connections ................................................................................. 6 Bath unit connections ................................................................................................ 6 VISCPRO® for Windows® XP® ............................................................................................ 6 Installing VISCPRO® software .............................................................................................. 7 Computer requirements ............................................................................................. 7 Windows® XP® installation ........................................................................................ 7 Installation actions ..................................................................................................... 7 Configuration diskette (First-time installation only!) .................................................... 7 Running the software ............................................................................................................. 8 Checking configuration .......................................................................................................... 9 Inital Configuration .................................................................................................... 9 Logging in ............................................................................................................... 10 Checking Instrument Settings .................................................................................. 10 Viewing/editing setup information ............................................................................. 12 Manually changing tube calibration constants ....................................................................... 13 Checking Wash and Advanced Settings ............................................................................... 14 Preparing the miniAV-X for testing ...................................................................................... 16 Inserting the miniAV-X temperature probes/reference thermometer .......................... 16 Adjusting Vacuum/Pressure settings ......................................................................... 17 Setting bath temperature ......................................................................................... 17 Training tube sensors ............................................................................................... 18 Checking wash functions ......................................................................................... 18 Calibrating the miniAV ............................................................................................ 19 Notes on computer-directed miniAV operation ........................................................ 19 2 TESTING SAMPLES WITH THE miniAV-X AUTOMATIC VISCOMETER 21 Turning on the miniAV-X ......................................................................................... 21 Testing samples ....................................................................................................... 21 Pausing a test .......................................................................................................... 24 CANNON® miniAV-X Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO® Instruction & Operation Manual Version 1.0b— March, 2012; CANNON® Instrument Company 2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA ii Resuming a test ....................................................................................................... 24 Aborting a test ........................................................................................................ 24 Concluding a test .................................................................................................... 24 Working with Instrument Groups ......................................................................................... 25 Group configuration ................................................................................................ 26 Configuring the Machine Status window to correspond with multiple-instrument place- ment ....................................................................................................................... 26 Viewing test results ............................................................................................................. 27 Creating an analysis ............................................................................................................ 27 Configuring the VI Matcher (optional) ................................................................................. 28 3 CALIBRATING THE miniAV-X 29 Calibrating temperature ....................................................................................................... 29 Calibration procedure ............................................................................................. 29 Training sensors .................................................................................................................. 30 Standard tube calibration .................................................................................................... 31 Calibration procedure ............................................................................................. 31 Saving a calibration ................................................................................................. 34 miniAV-X calibration equations ............................................................................... 35 4 USING THE miniAV-X SOFTWARE 37 VISCPRO® generic instrument interface .............................................................................. 37 Main options .......................................................................................................... 38 Security options ...................................................................................................... 39 Initial security setup ................................................................................................. 39 Adjusting Security Settings ...................................................................................... 41 Print/Print setup options .......................................................................................... 42 Analyses options ................................................................................................................. 42 Analysis types ......................................................................................................... 42 Analyses menu options ............................................................................................ 42 Window options ................................................................................................................. 44 miniAV-X module menu options .......................................................................................... 45 Configure options ................................................................................................... 45 Print Instrument and Tray Settings ........................................................................... 45 Instrument Settings .................................................................................................. 47 Tray Settings: Tube and Bath ................................................................................... 49 Tray Settings: Test ................................................................................................... 51 Tray Settings: Wash ................................................................................................ 53 Tray Settings: Advanced .......................................................................................... 56 Saving a configuration ............................................................................................. 58 Calibration .............................................................................................................. 58 Service menu options .......................................................................................................... 60 CANNON® miniAV-X Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO® Instruction & Operation Manual Version 1.0b—March, 2012; CANNON® Instrument Company 2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA iii Testing samples—software options ...................................................................................... 65 Entering sample ID information ................................................................................ 65 Selecting sample actions .........................................................................................