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Banner Engineering Corp. •Minneapolis,U.S.A.
www.bannerengineering.com•Tel:763.544.3164
P/N64118rev.B
System Diagnostics
Banner Engineering Corp. •Minneapolis,U.S.A.
www.bannerengineering.com•Tel:763.544.3164
Diagnostics Indicator: Thisbright,segmentedLEDdisplayonthecontrolmodulefront
panelindicatesoneof10Systemstatusconditions,plusthepresenceorabsenceof
blanking.(BlankingONcausesaperiodtoappearintheDiagnosticsIndicatorwindow,
inadditiontotheSystem’sotherstatuscondition.)SeeFigure6-2forthekeytothese
errortypesandstatusconditions;thischartisalsolocatedonthesideofthecontrol
module.
Emitter:
OPERATIONAL:(red)LEDindicatespowertotheemitterisON,andunitisoperational.
Receiver:
BLOCKED: (red)LEDindicatessomeofthearraybeamsareblocked.
MARGINAL:(yellow)LEDindicatesthatarrayalignmentismarginal.
ALIGNMENT: (green)LEDindicatesthatarrayalignmentissatisfactory.
Toimprovealignment,adjustthepositionoftheemitterandreceiveruntilthegreenLED
lights,makingsurethatnounblankedbeamsareinterrupted.Thenuseoneofthemethods
inSection5.2torealignthesystem.
6.2 Diagnostics Routine
Emitterorreceiverproblemsmaybefurtherdiagnosedusingthe
DiagnosticsroutineincludedwiththeMINI-ARRAYsoftware.
LaunchtheprogrambyselectingDiagnosticsundertheMINI-
ARRAYmenu(Figure5-2)orbypressingF2.
TheDiagnosticsscreen(Figure6-3)displaysthesizeofeach
emitterandreceiver(expressedinthenumberof64-element
“boards”itcontains)anditsfunctionalstatus(orstate).Ifan
errorhasoccurred,thespecificproblembeamchannelis
identified.Additionally,ifthereisaproblemwithanemitteror
receivercableconnection,a“No Response”messageisdisplayed.
TheDiagnosticsroutinealsodisplaysthepartnumberanddate
codeofthecontroller,informationthatmaybeusefuliffactory-
assistedtroubleshootingbytelephoneisrequired.
Figure 6-3. Diagnostics screen, accessible from the MINI-
ARRAY menu