Owner manual

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Banner Engineering Corp. •Minneapolis,U.S.A.
www.bannerengineering.com•Tel:763.544.3164
P/N64118rev.B
5.2.2 Software Alignment Routine
ThegreenLEDindicatoronthereceiverand
alsoonthecontrolmodulecontinuously
displaysAlignmentstatus.Whenallunblanked
beamsareclear,thegreenAlignment
indicatorswillbeON.Tobetterunderstand
blocked,clearandblankedbeams,launchthe
Alignmentroutine(pressF8orselect
AlignmentundertheMINI-ARRAYmenu).The
screenwillshowthestateofallofthebeam
channels,groupedintosetsof16.
KeyinformationprovidedontheAlignment
screenisthesensorsize,plusthenumberof
beamsblocked,made,andblanked.The
sensorsizeisgiventhetitleof“total”;this
referstothetotalnumberofbeamchannelsin
thearray.Thenumberofbeamsblockedisa
runningtotalofblockedbeams,excludingany
blankedbeams.The“made”valueisacount
ofunblockedbeams.The“blankedvalue”isa
countofthenumberofbeamchannelsthatare
blanked(channelsthatareignoredfor
measurementmodeapplications;seesection
5.2.3).
TheAlignmentscreenprovidesthefollowingfunctions:Start,Stop,Step,Clear
BlankingFields,RestoreControlmoduleSettings,AutoBlanking,AbortAutoBlanking,
SavetoFile,ReadFromFile,Cancel,OK,andEdit.Toaccessanyofthesesub-routines,
firstpressStop,thentheselectedoption.
Startcommandcausesthecontrolmoduletocontinuouslyscanandreport“All
ChannelData.”Thisdataisusedtoupdatethestateofeachbeamchannel.
Stopcommandcausesthecontrolmoduletostopscanning.
Stepcommandproducesonescanandthenstopsuntilanothercommandisissued.
Clear Blanking Fieldscommandisaquickwaytoremoveblankingspecifications.
Restore Control Module Settingswillrecalltheblankingspecificationsineffectprior
toAlignment/Blankingbeingentered.
Auto Blankingcommandisusedtoscananddeterminewhichbeamsareblocked;
blockedbeamsautomaticallybecomeblankedbeams.TheAutoBlankingvaluescan
thenbeAcceptedorAborted.
Editisusedtocontroltheblankingspecificationsofanychannelmanually.Thisis
usefulforaddinganynumberofblankedbeamchannelsaboveand/orbelowablanked
objecttoallowforvibrationorothermovementoftheobjecttobeignored.
BlankingspecificationscanbesavedandreadfromacomputerfileusingtheSave To
FileandRead From Filecommands.
Figure 5-5. Alignment screen
Control Module Configuration
Banner Engineering Corp. •Minneapolis,U.S.A.
www.bannerengineering.com•Tel:763.544.3164